Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE)
Presentation
Spanish is one of the languages with the highest number of speakers in the world. The cultural, artistic, scientific, and commercial potential of the Hispanic world stimulates an increasing number of speakers of other languages to be interested in learning it. In this sense, native speakers, with professional and linguistic training, have a cultural base to insert themselves into Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) teaching programs. Consequently, this diploma focuses on the knowledge, application, and production of didactic strategies so that such a process of insertion is productive and responds to the formative needs of potential students from various linguistic and cultural contexts.
General objectives of the program
To enable professionals with linguistic training for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), by enhancing their skills for the analysis, selection, planning, and evaluation of didactic sequences and evaluative strategies that have as references theoretical frameworks, curricular projects, didactic proposals, and updated empirical research.
Directed to:
· Competent speakers of Spanish
· Teachers of Spanish, English, and other languages
· Translators and interpreters
· Graduates in linguistics and literature
Graduate profile
The graduate of the USACH ELE teaching diploma is characterized by having developed capacities to:
· Competently teach ELE in national and international contexts.
· Design didactic units to address different lexical-grammatical and cultural contents.
· Select, produce, and edit their own didactic material.
· Read with a critical spirit different formative proposals.
Study plan
Module 1: Theoretical and curricular proposals of references for the teaching of ELE.
Module 2: Didactics for the teaching of ELE I.
Module 3: Didactic resources and evaluation strategies for ELE.
Module 4: Didactics for the teaching of ELE II.
Module 5: Interculturality in the teaching of ELE.
Module 6: Didactics for the teaching of ELE III.
Methodology
The course has a modality that combines theoretical, curricular, and practical aspects linked to the teaching of ELE. To address them, different types of learning activities are proposed: interactive exhibitions, reflection based on a dossier of selected readings, formulation of didactic sequences, and production of learning material.
For each of the teaching levels, written and digital materials will be reviewed to configure sequences of contents, didactic principles, teaching strategies, and evaluation criteria in an inductive and collaborative way.
As the course progresses, participants must develop a portfolio that will contain their reflections, the material produced, and the design of didactic sequences to address content.
To finish the course, students must present a didactic proposal to address grammatical, lexical, and cultural topics assigned in due time.
Requirements
· Professional degree
· Proficiency exam in the management of Spanish (grammar, spelling, and writing)
· Personal interview
Duration of the program
7 months
Application date
From April 7 to May 3, 2022.
Start and end date of the Program
From May 7 to November 19, 2022.
Class modality
Mixed; Wednesdays from 7:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. online and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Registration fee
$68,000.- (one-time only)
Tuition fee
$1,100,000.-, tuition divided into 6 installments of $160,000.- and 1 installment of $140,000.-
Diploma fee
$31.000.- (Annually adjusted)
Minimum quota
15 people.
Contact
Head of the Program
Dr. Raquel Rubio Martin
Secretary
Alicia Sartori
