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Teachers: Intensive Courses

General Aims

The aim of these intensive modules is to provide Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) teachers with the right tools to refresh and energize their Spanish lessons. The latest documents of the European Council, such as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) should be consulted when planning on updating lessons. Also to be considered are contributions made by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), essential today in the SFL world. Likewise, texts (e.g. of written comprehension and expression) used in the daily life of a language should never be forgotten. Finally, basic techniques should be acquired in order to stimulate your Spanish lessons to the maximum.

Courses Available

  1. "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Spanish as a Foreign Language class: Teaching Resources and Applications" (Course organised in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute)
    • Specific aims:
      • To learn to value the benefits of the different resources available through ICT, depending on the specific needs of each student profile.
      • To be able to find and use different virtual tools that make it possible to organise communication and motivating activities in Spanish lessons.
      • To design SFL activities using resources found on the Internet.
    • Target students:
      • Graduates who are specialising in the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
      • SFL teachers.
      • Teachers of Spanish as a second language in primary and secondary education.
      • Teachers of other second or foreign languages.
  2. "Written Comprehension and Expression: Teaching and Learning"
    • Specific aims:
      • To offer an overall view of teaching/learning and the use of written comprehension and expression with different functions in foreign language acquisition.
      • To find out about different teaching methodologies on the teaching of reading and writing, and resources to focus on them using processes.
      • To discover, experiment with and evaluate varied resources for the teaching of writing in a foreign language.
    • Target students:
      • Students in the second or third cycle of Philology.
      • Graduates in Philology who wish to have a career in teaching Spanish to foreigners.
      • SFL teachers who are interested in promoting writing skills in the Spanish classroom.
      • Primary and secondary school teachers who are looking for resources to improve the teaching of writing in their lessons.
  3. "Tasks in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR): Grammatical tasks and communication tasks. Choice, sequencing and follow-up"
    • Specific aims
      • To become familiar with the CEFR, the theoretical framework responsible for creating Tasks.
      • To evaluate a Task as a pedagogical instrument that provides autonomous learning, one of the main principles present in the CEFR.
      • To understand the role, the outcome and repercussions of Tasks in the CEFR.
      • To design Tasks using good sequencing of grammatical and communicative tasks.
    • Target students:
      • Students in the second and third cycle of Philology.
      • Graduates in Philology who wish to have a career in teaching Spanish to foreigners.
      • SFL teachers or teachers of other foreign languages.
  4. "Literature in Spanish as a Foreign Language lessons"
    • Specific aims:
      • To think about the use of literature in the teaching of Spanish.
      • To analyse and evaluate the presence of literature in teaching materials and in Spanish as a Foreign Language lessons.
      • To familiarise participants with the possibilities of using literature in class.
      • To produce the right teaching materials for the units that are planned.
    • Target students:
      • Students in the second and third cycle of Philology.
      • Graduates in Philology who wish to have a career in the teaching of Spanish to foreigners.
      • SFL teachers who wish to become familiar with the use of literature in the classroom.
      • Primary and secondary school teachers who are looking to expand their teaching resources for the teaching of literature.
  5. "Energizing Techniques for SFL lessons"
    • Specific aims:
      • To analyse teaching resources and strategies used in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom.
      • To broaden knowledge about processes that facilitate communication in different language activities.
      • To thoroughly study the most adequate and optimum use of teaching materials in class.
      • To develop skills related to the use of different resources for lesson development.
    • Target students:
      • Philology graduates and students in the second cycle of Philology who wish to have a career in the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
      • Second language teachers and especially SFL teachers.
  6. "The use of film as a pedagogical tool for SFL teaching"
    • Specific aims:
      • To obtain a panoramic view of current Spanish and Latin American films.
      • To discover not only the cinematographic interest of films, but also their use in teaching for SFL teachers.
      • To learn about ways of exploiting films for class, using some of the films that are dealt with in the sessions.
      • To know how to plan activities which exploit films for class and know how to introduce their sociocultural contents in response to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
    • Target students:
      • Students in their second and third year of Philology
      • Graduates in Philology who hope to have a career in the teaching of Spanish to foreigners.
      • SFL teachers who wish to make their lessons more dynamic by adding resources of great learning potential such as films.
  7. "The Teaching of Spanish to Immigrants: Teaching Resources and Skills"
    • Specific aims:
      • To clearly understand the learning profile of people who simultaneously start to learn a language, in this case Spanish, and also how to read and write.
      • For teachers and participants to discuss and negotiate in order to establish interests, needs, expectations and characteristics of such a specific learning process.
      • To use appropriate resources for each learning moment: games, dynamic games and other activities etc.
      • To be more flexible with teaching techniques and skills according to the diversity present in a SFL class for immigrants.
    • Target students:
      • Spanish and Foreign teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
      • Spanish Language and Literature teachers in secondary education who work with immigrants in their schools.
      • Spanish teachers in associations or institutions that work with immigrants.
      • Graduates of Philology or students in their last year who wish to have a career in the teaching of Spanish to foreigners.
  8. "The Development of Autonomy in the SFL Student"
    • Specific aims:
      • To help students how to learn more efficiently, and consequently, how to communicate better in Spanish.
      • To use pedagogical tools to help students develop their capacity to evaluate linguistic processes, the learning process and the chosen resources to learn Spanish.
      • To link the development of learning capacity with the rest of the components in the SFL teaching and learning programme.
      • To use teaching techniques and skills in class to develop students’ learning capacity.
    • Target students:
      • Students in the second and third cycle of Philology.
      • Philology graduates who wish to have a career in the teaching of Spanish to foreigners.
      • Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language or a second language.
      • Spanish teachers in secondary education.