14th GERES International Meeting in Poitiers

15 Oct, 2015

GERES, the Grupo de Estudio e Investigación en Español de Especialidad, has announced that its 14th International Meeting will take place in Poitiers from the 16th to the 18th June 2016,  with the support of the Maison des Langues at Poitiers university. Business...

ALTO Survey 2015

7 Oct, 2015

Readers of this blog will already know that FEDELE forms part of ALTO, the Association of Language Travel Organisations.  ALTO is open to businesses, associations and any organisation related to language teaching and language study abroad. The main objective of ALTO...

It´s here! The FEDELE Annual Meeting 2015

4 Oct, 2015

The sixteenth FEDELE Annual Meeting will take place shortly in Cadiz, from the 27th to the 30th September.  This event is organised by the Federation of Schools of Spanish (FEDELE) together with Cadiz council, Turismo Andaluz (Junta de Andalucía), Cadiz Tourist Board...

Language school associations endorse the London Statement

25 Sep, 2015

GAELA , the  Global Alliance of Education and Language Associations, comprises nineteen language school associations and other related organisations from around the world.  Their representatives met in London on the 4th of September to discuss matters of common...

International promotion of the Spanish language

14 Sep, 2015

A few days ago, the Real Instituto Elcano published a document written by Maria Dolores Romero Lesmes with the title The international promotion of the Spanish language: a comparison with German, Chinese and French. The research is based on an analysis of the money...

The new CCSE tests for obtaining Spanish nationality

14 Sep, 2015

As has been reported in the press, from October there will be specific requirements for acquiring Spanish nationality. Firstly, it will be necessary to pass a test demonstrating a basic knowledge of the Spanish language: the DELE Spanish diploma, level A2 or higher. ...

Dates for the DELE examinations in 2016

4 Sep, 2015

As our readers will already know, FEDELE has been committed to the official evaluation and certification of proficiency in Spanish from the very beginning, especially with regard to the DELE diploma programme of the Instituto Cervantes. For this reason we would like...

Do you know MarcoELE?

20 Aug, 2015

Here at the FEDELE blog, we are interested in all proposals relating to the teaching of Spanish, including of course, proposals concerning the training of teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language. We would, therefore, like to present one of the most interesting...

The FEDELE Annual Meeting in Cádiz is getting closer

13 Aug, 2015

As we´ve already announced on this blog, the next FEDELE Annual Meeting will take place in just a few weeks time in Cádiz.  This is the most long-standing Spanish as a  Foreign Language event in Spain.  It brings together agencies offering Study Abroad programmes and...

Agreement between FEDELE and the University of Castilla La Mancha

7 Aug, 2015

We are pleased to tell the readers of our blog that FEDELE has recently signed an agreement with the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) with the aim of creating a framework to facilitate the participation of FEDELE schools in the AUNA programme (Aula...