• Contact hours and type of course: 40 contact hours; face-to-face classes
• Location: Campus Ciutadella
• UPF Certification: UPF Certificate of attendance and performance report

Course objectives

The course offers an overview of the methodological and technical principles for teaching Spanish as a foreign language and provides the minimum and indispensable theoretical and practical tools for the future teacher of Spanish. The classes will deal with the theoretical questions necessary to develop teaching competence, will propose different activities of analysis and reflection on the role of the teacher, the student and the language in the teaching-learning process, and they will promote individual reflection and collaborative work in order to enrich reflection.

This course also aims to:

• Reflect on the basic concepts related to the process of teaching and learning a foreign language.
• Become familiar with the use of teaching materials and resources in the classroom.
• Analyze didactic and methodological criteria in order to provide the necessary tools for the elaboration of didactic units and for the good development of teaching practice.
• Facilitate principles and techniques of evaluation.
• Observe different aspects of a teacher’s performance in class and identify aspects of teaching competence.
• Develop a proposal for teaching intervention.
• Give direct teaching in the clasroom and then analyze the teaching practice.

Course contents

• Class 0: the starting point.
• What is it like to be a good foreign language teacher?
• Learning models and reference documents.
• Manuals and other teaching resources in the classroom.
• Grammar treatment in the ELE class.
• Vocabulary treatment in the ELE class.
• Communicative activities: written comprehension and expression.
• Communicative activities: oral comprehension and expression.
• Correction and evaluation.
• Planning a teaching unit.
• Linguistic reflection workshops.
• Introduction to class observation.
• Individual and small group tutorials.
• Practical sessions: micro-teaching and feedback.
• Direct teaching in the clasroom.

2023-2024 ELE Editions and schedules

Access requirements

This training course is aimed at adults, preferably graduates or students of Translation and Interpreting, Philology, Applied Languages or related careers, as well as all those university-level people from other disciplines who want to guide their professional career towards the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

Certificate

Students who pass the course will receive a certificate of completion issued by Pompeu Fabra University and a brief qualitative report that will describe their personal performance throughout the teaching internship.

Price: 440 € (no discounts apply)

• The price of the course includes the theoretical classes, the didactic material and the UPF certificate ot the course.
• Idiomes UPF reserves the right to cancel any course that does not reach the minimum number of students required, in which case the full amount ot the course will be refunded.

To reserve your place, you will have to pay for the course.

Once the minimum number of students has been reached to open the group (11), Idiomes UPF will send and e-mail with all the information about the course (classroom, teacher, etc).

How can I enroll in the course?

To enroll on the course, you will need to select the code [1626 - Curs ELE], choose the edition you want to enroll in and make the online payment by card following the instructions below: