Once again we are announcing the 13th Forum for Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Valencia which will take place on the 10th and 11th of March.
The programme for this event, which has become a reference point for teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language, is as follows:
Friday, 10th March 2017
- 00 – 9.30 Enrolment and handing out of material
- 30 – 9.45 Opening
- 45 – 10.45 Opening talk: “The basics of pronunciation: doubts, certainties and the rest”, by Xose A. Padilla García (Universitat d’Alacant)
- 45 – 11.00 Break
- 00-12.30 Workshops A and D at the same time
- 30-14.00 Workshops D and B at the same time
- 00 – 17.30 Workshops B and C at the same time
- 30 – 18.00 Presentation by the publishers Difusión
- 00 – 18.30 Break. Coffee
- 30 – 20.00 Workshops A and C at the same time
- 00 Forum dinner (open to speakers and everyone attending the conference)
Saturday, 11th March 2017
- 30 – 11.30 Practical experiences
- 30 – 12.00 Break
- 00 – 14.00 Practical experiences
- 00 – 18.00 Practical experiences
- 00 – 18.30 Break. Coffee
- 30 – 19.30 Closing talk: “Corpus linguistics and and inductive grammar: an approximation”, by Inmaculada Martínez Martínez (CIESE-Comillas, Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores del Español)
- 30 Prize draw and closure
The workshops being offered during the forum are:
- Mobile phones in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom: flexibility of activities, by Joan-Tomàs Pujolà Font (Universitat de Barcelona).
- The flipped classroom, everyone’s class, for everyone by Ana Martínez Lara (Editorial Difusión).
- Comics as a means of communication and creativity in the Spanish classroom, by Francisco José Herrera Jiménez (CLIC International House Cádiz).
- Interaction and collaboration in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom using social networks, by Pilar Concheiro Coello (University of Iceland / Verzlunarskóli Íslands).
The forum is directed by Antonio Briz Gómez, Virginia González García and Jorge Martí Contreras. For more information visit the forum webpage.