The 9th Difusión Training Days for Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language, organized in collaboration with PROLINTER (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), will take place at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on the 2nd and 3rd March.
The Instituto Cervantes is participating in these sessions, which have moved to a different location from other years, and FEDELE and SIELE are sponsoring them.
The programme for the event is as follows:
Friday, 2nd March
- 14:00 – 15:00 Enrolment
- 15:00 – 15:30 Opening address
- 15:30 – 16:30 Carlos Magro (IED España) The educational challenge of the 21st century: An education for life, for all of one’s life and for everyone’s life.
- 16:30 – 16:45 Break
- 16:45 – 17:45 Daniel Cassany (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Skills in the Internet age
- 17:45 – 18:00 Break
- 18:00 – 19:00 Claudia Fernández (University of Illinois-Chicago) What type of input and for what purpose? The difference between input for the acquiring grammar and input for developing receptive skills.
- 19:00 – 19:15 Break
- 19:15 – 20:15 1001 nights, performance and oral narrative
- 20:15 – 21:00 Glass of cava
Saturday 3rd March
- 09:30 – 11:00 Simultaneous workshops (1st session)
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 – 12:00 SIELE space: how to train to become a good SIELE coach
- 12:00 – 12:15 Break
- 12:15 – 13:15 José Ángel Medina (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Is it possible to motivate a group in the classroom?
- 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch (included in the price of enrolment)
- 14:30 – 16:00 Simultaneous workshops (2nd session)
- 16:00 – 16:15 Break
- 16:15 – 17:15 Forum for exchange of experiences
- 17:15 – 17:30 Break
- 17:30 – 19:00 Presentation of the 4th Editorial Difusión y PROLINTER (UPM) prizes for the best Spanish as a Foreign Language Teaching based on ICT
- 19:00 – 19:15 Draw of teaching material
- 19:15 – 19:30 Presentation of certificates
More information and enrolment on the training days websites.