Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course starts from the centrality of the person - student and teacher, first of all - in the teaching and learning of Spanish as a second language or as a foreign language. Using active and experiential teaching, the lessons develop an open and personalized curriculum for each student, aimed at stimulating the skills of observation, perception, introspection and action-research. Using the ideas offered by the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages, the creative programming of the communicative curriculum, the linguistic input, the management of relations in the classroom and the transformative evaluation are dealt with in an integrated way. The aim is for the student to get a non-traditional, humanistic overview of the key points of foreign language teaching/learning.
Expected learning outcomes
The expected results in terms of knowledge and understanding are that the student learns the basics of communicative foreign language teaching, understands the model of language acquisition of the second language and acquires disciplinary terminology. In terms of soft skills, the student develops critical skills of traditional methodologies, deep observation and perception skills, reflection and self-assessment skills of her profile as a teacher in training, problem solving and creative skills and self-assessment skills. The expected results in terms of applied skills are the ability to question practices and models crystallized in common practice, to define objectives of language training and self-training, to set up a relational type of teaching centered on the person and to conceive the teaching/learning in terms of experience and becoming.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course focuses the centrality of the person in the teaching and learning of Spanish as a second language or as a foreign language. Using active and experiential teaching, the lessons develop an open and personalized curriculum for each student, aimed at stimulating the skills of observation, perception, introspection and research-action. Using the topics offered by the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages, the creative programming of the communicative curriculum, the linguistic input, the management of relations in the classroom and the transformative evaluation are dealt with in an integrated way.
Experiential activities (peer tutoring, planning, tutoring in prison, research projects, action groups) are planned on the basis of individual interests as a voluntary accompaniment to the course (internships, ASL, dissertation thesis).
The course program is valid until February 2026 inclusive.
The course is part of the shared 4EU+ course catalogue and belongs to the MULTILINGUALISM Pathway, Module M1
Experiential activities (peer tutoring, planning, tutoring in prison, research projects, action groups) are planned on the basis of individual interests as a voluntary accompaniment to the course (internships, ASL, dissertation thesis).
The course program is valid until February 2026 inclusive.
The course is part of the shared 4EU+ course catalogue and belongs to the MULTILINGUALISM Pathway, Module M1
Prerequisites for admission
The course is held in Spanish and materials and bibliography require Spanish language Level C1.
Teaching methods
The course adopts the following teaching methods: active and experiential lessons using body movement, roel plays, individual and group configurations, didactic use of the classroom space, multimedia aids, and activities outside the classroom. In addition, lessons are always accompanied by research activities at home by the students or by productions for the student's portfolio.
Teaching Resources
The bibliography is in progress and will be announced here before the beginning of the course.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam is in the regular exam sessions and is in Spanish. Students can choose between a summative assessment and an evaluation in progress during the course.
The summative mode is an interview that lasts about 20 minutes with questions aimed at assessing the knowledge of the texts studied and the precision in the use of specific terminology, as well as the ability to reflect critically and personally on the proposed topics. The questions asked are open-ended and allow for critical and reasoned answers that integrate the main points of the texts in the bibliography. It is not required, therefore, a detailed notional study and it is advisable to use cognitive maps to have a global vision of the bibliography.
The in-progress mode consists of a reasoned self-assessment based on a portfolio of activities carried out during the course.
The evaluation is in thirtieths and the student has the right to reject it. The passing grade is 18/30.
Other info:
Examination modalities for students with disabilities and/or with dyslexia must be agreed with the teacher, after reciving the certificate of the competent Office.
The summative mode is an interview that lasts about 20 minutes with questions aimed at assessing the knowledge of the texts studied and the precision in the use of specific terminology, as well as the ability to reflect critically and personally on the proposed topics. The questions asked are open-ended and allow for critical and reasoned answers that integrate the main points of the texts in the bibliography. It is not required, therefore, a detailed notional study and it is advisable to use cognitive maps to have a global vision of the bibliography.
The in-progress mode consists of a reasoned self-assessment based on a portfolio of activities carried out during the course.
The evaluation is in thirtieths and the student has the right to reject it. The passing grade is 18/30.
Other info:
Examination modalities for students with disabilities and/or with dyslexia must be agreed with the teacher, after reciving the certificate of the competent Office.
L-LIN/02 - EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Landone Elena
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Piazza Sant'Alessandro 1 - 1º floor (Spanish section)