A few years ago, the Spanish Government undertook an initiative towards Spanish language teaching abroad that gave birth to the Institutos Bilingües (Bilingual Institutes) and Secciones Bilingües (Bilingual Sections) programmes. Their main goals are to promote Spanish language and culture, as well as strengthen the cooperation between Spain and other countries. Five school centres in Russia have taken part in this project since 2001, four of them in Moscow and one in St. Petersburg. Based on the ...
A few years ago, the Spanish Government undertook an initiative towards Spanish language teaching abroad that gave birth to the Institutos Bilingües (Bilingual Institutes) and Secciones Bilingües (Bilingual Sections) programmes. Their main goals are to promote Spanish language and culture, as well as strengthen the cooperation between Spain and other countries. Five school centres in Russia have taken part in this project since 2001, four of them in Moscow and one in St. Petersburg. Based on the assumption that these centres lack Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) teaching resources, this dissertation aims to improve quality and diversity in ELE lessons on the Secciones Bilingües of Moscow by adjusting the resources to its curriculum. To do so, we undertook a needs analysis of the linguistic and logistical resources used in the Moscow centres. As we expected, there are resource needs in the Moscow centres, which lack or do not totally use the resources available to achieve the Secciones Bilingües’ curriculum goals. Thus, we have elaborated a proposal for improvements of the ELE education resources in the four centres.
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