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Course for Spanish as a Foreign Language teachers
August 23, 2017
Julio Martínez Jarillo

Before teaching ELE, I'd already had a few years of teaching under my belt, and I knew my way around the professional world of teaching, but not in the field of languages and never from the point of giving lessons to foreigners. For the last few months I was weighing between what I did know and trying my hand at something else and in the end struck a new path with the Hemingway Institute. The experience turned out to be not only beneficial but enriching. The method I learned from the Institute, a plan comprising six key elements, are crucial in involving the students in the classroom and leading them.

Part of the class involved workshops with foreigners taking Spanish classes at the Institute. Interacting with them was an incredible experience and from then on in the idea that I could be their teacher made me extremely happy.
At the same time I had to brush up on my own knowledge of Spanish grammar, given that my own classes had ended years ago and were always difficult. This was accompanied by a realization that the most important objective of any language class is communication and therefore the necessity of having flexible means of teaching and the willingness to relinquish control of the direction of the class to the students so that they could find their own voices.

The workshops also allowed me to reflect on the different ways of embracing a class, now that I find myself giving the lessons I was taught thirty or forty years ago. As a child I studied English, with a non-native teacher that spent most of the time speaking Spanish. Today, with updated teaching styles including more immersive environments, different dynamics between teachers and students and a pratical focus to the classes, everything has changed. It is now fully within the hands of students to become bilingual from a very young age.

I want to thank the Hemingway Institute for introducing me to the incredible world of ELE and all of the opportunities this entails, and a special thanks for my teacher Alfredo Orive for his dedication, patience and proximity whenever I needed help. It is entirely possible that we will see each other again if I try the advanced course...

Once again, thanks for everything.
Always my very best,

Julio Martinez Jarillo

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