5 students will create online material to learn Spanish

Five Burgos students of the last two years of High School, will be responsible for creating specific content which students around the world will learn Castilian . They will make videos with conversations , prepare phonics flashcards on speaking and go to the net grammar documents necessary for learning Spanish as a foreign language at level A -1 ( understand and use familiar everyday expressions and frequent basic phrases aimed to needs of a concrete type ) .

To choose these students , the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language and educational project for the World Talentia Marist yesterday signed a collaboration agreement. Talentia project working with children and young people of high ability , elect five students within the program GAREX ( Groups of High Performance and Excellence in Education ) .

"It's an innovative project in Spain . They will work materials that will be then used by schools, institutions and universities abroad to learn Castilian . We start with the standard A-1 , but the idea is that in years to come as the training at all levels . The contents will be grouped and uploaded to a website where they will be accessible to centers of Spain and abroad. Start with American and French centers , although the idea is open to all types of centers , "explains Roberto Ranz , Talentia director for the World.

This way of working is called Inverted classes as "other schools may have audiovisual material with which to learn online and also take them to the classroom to work specific areas in context ."

GAREX nine . Moreover multimedia project to learn Spanish that made ​​with the Institute of Language, Talentia for the World has launched eight other GAREXen projects . In total places offered fifty research also linked to the University of Burgos (with an educational robotics project ), the CENIEH ( with Guarenya Eye and 3D project ) , Hiperbaric (car of inertia ) , the Museum of the Book ( multimedia for iPad ) , MEH , Hubu and BELIEVE .

" We select students in the 3rd and 4th of Baccalaureate esoy to develop research projects that have to convey to an audience that will allow them to know their vocation and their future expectations of study and research ," he adds Ranz . Talentia for the World, pioneering program in Castilla y León, always works with real projects for real life .

The online teaching spanish consolidates as the most studied language in USA

Learning spanish through Skype? In the U.S., the language of Cervantes maintains its leading position in language education through, among others, the rise of distance learning and the use of new technologies. A world of possibilities, however, also has it´s detractors.

Since the end of the last decade, the supply of teachers who take advantage of applications like Skype or Moodle to teach their classes has increased as improved Internet connection in their home countries. A phenomenon that coincided with the onset of the economic crisis, which prompted many students to opt for non-face teaching to continue his training.

systems like Skype allow teacher and student to feel like they're in the same room after a few minutes. "You can use the chat application and thus, both student and teacher can send text as if sharing a notebook". In addition, you can share screens and record lectures.

Apart from the technological advantages, online classes offer practical advantages, such as enjoying the classes from anywhere where there is an internet connection, either your home, your office or your vacation spot. By saving overheads, online courses can offer Spanish classes for about ten dollars an hour, while the face of Spanish private lessons in New York can reach one hundred dollars

The cervantes institute of New York confirms the spanish time in the United States. Currently, two thirds of speakers of other languages, different of english, speak spanish in the country, says Carmen Blánquez, academic director of the Cervantes Institute in new York, which opened its doors in 1994 and since then has established itself as a benckmark spanish cultural in the Big Apple.

However, some Spanish teachers and linguists criticize the rise of distance education and are concerned about the possible decline in quality. "Many of the teachers of Spanish in the United States are Latino or Spanish who do not find another opportunity to work here and who lack teaching skills" says Jorge Gallego, an Ecuadorian linguist.

Learn a language through the music

To listen songs in another languages is a fun resource to practice your idiomatic skills

A language learning could be hard and boring if you don´t use motivational tools. The music and the songs are perfect allies to work in a practical and entertaining way, the different cognitive areas of a foreign language. Expand your vocabulary, intonation reinforce, improve your pronunciation and review grammar in a real context, are some of fundamental didactics aspects that can be improved through the musical resources.

Without knowing what it means and even less how it writes, a person can be able to repeat automatically, with the best possible accent and intonation, a song in a different language than the own. Is the virtue of music, the fact of staying in memory in an easier way tan other assimilations.

The songs are used usually as a didactic resource in language teaching. Apart from being a motivational tool for it´s playful and entertaining character, provide teachers large possibilities to work curriculum aspects of a language.

Through songs, the students can work different didactical aims of foreign language learning. One of the most valued aspect by teachers are those involving the phonological part of the language, essential for a correct domain from another language. Songs suppose an unique opportunity to work with pronunciation and intonation, to review different aspects of a same dialect and maximize oral expression of students.

On the other hand, songs provide an excellent opportunity to explore into the lexicon of another language. A lyric of a song can be the perfect excuse to introduce new terms in the student´s vocabulary. He relate systematically with a real context and is easier to retain those new words in his memory and implement them properly later.