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Technology and culture in the Spanish Class

Instructor:

Professor Robert Blake, PhD, UCLA (in collaboration with the Stanford University Extension)

Dates:

From the 8th to the 21st of july 2024

Credit Transfer:

Participants can receive 4 post-graduate credits from Stanford University Extension for an $80 academic fee. (Payment by personal checks only.)

Price:

300 ($320.00 USD) per week.

The Price includes:

  • Accommodation in residency or with a family in a double room with everything needed from the Sunday until the Saturday after you finish. Supplement to individual: 2 euros ($2.5) a day. The bathroom and the showers are shared. In residency, you can have a room with a bathroom for 7 euros ( $8.00 USD) a day.
  • Online teaching material
  • Transport from Madrid airport to Salamanca and viceversa in the schedules indicated
  • Health insurance with the sanitary company
  • Socio culture program in the afternoon; some activities require payment.
  • The price does not include an airplane ticket, personal expenses and some activities.

Program:

The use of technology

    David Beard

    David Beard

    Robert J. Blake

    Robert J. Blake

  • Why ICT for ELE?
  • ICT and teaching explicit.
  • The network and the cultural authenticity.
  • Tutorial Programs.
  • Communication through a computer (CMC).
  • A pedagogy for ICT.
  • The teaching of languages to distance (online).
  • Social networks.
  • (a) MALL (the mobile classroom); (b) the ACTFL and MCER scales.
  • Groups on the projects of group work: sites. Google.com or CANVAS.

Didactic material and dynamics in the classroom

    Asuncin Garrido

    Asunción Garrido

  • The use of video as a teaching resource in the ELE classroom.
  • Didactic Resources and dynamic materials in the classroom: The short film in ELE class: lights, camera, and action
  • Culture and advertising in ELE class. Didactic proposal for a conversation course.
  • The written expression. Implement and evaluate this skill.
  • The literary in the ELE classroom text: proposals and usage models.
  • Half truths of the Spanish grammar. Proposals for the class.
  • The rap as a teaching resource. Didactic proposals.
  • The didactics of the freelance and its application in the classroom.
  • Introduction to the social networks in the classroom of ELE.
  • Reading comprehension in the ELE class. Graded readings. Elaboration of new proposals.
  • The didactics of the freelance and its application in the classroom.

The use of the culture

    Beln Rodrguez

    Belén Rodríguez

  • Art in the class of ELE.
  • The food in Spain. The medittarrenean diet and the bars.
  • The daily life: habits and beliefs.
  • Family relationships. The evolution of the family in Spain.
  • The situation in the classroom.
  • Avoiding misunderstandings. Cultural immersion and of speech acts.
  • The magical side of culture.
  • The Spanish of the Americas, Spanish proverbs and some idioms.
  • Rituals and social behaviors.
  • Pragmatic aspects.

Whats Included?

  • 25 classroom hours per day
  • Accommodation with a host family or in a residence, with full board and a sharedroom.
    • Individual rooms available for $3 extra per day
  • Access to online educational materials
  • Transportation between Madrid Airport and Salamanca
  • Insurance coverage from Sanitas
  • Organized sociocultural activities in the afternoons (not all activities are included in the price).