Our methods
Our classes are based around the communicative approach and use the latest task based learning methodology. We are conscious of the need to use a variety of methods as our students come from a range of backgrounds and ages and have varied learning styles and needs.
Activating communicative skills means planning classes taking into account linguistic objectives, socio-cultural backgrounds, learning skills and communication with special emphasis on sentence construction and appropriate language. In this way, rather than offering a list of rules and structures for different situations we look at both meaning and intent.
We use the language with specific intention to communicate and aid our students to manipulate structures rather than just repeating them in order for them to achieve what they want. Rather than teachers who get their students to repeat structures and constructions (teacher based) our teachers aim to help their students think in Spanish (learner based).
Thus the integration of skills is fundamental in the design of activities and we move from listening comprehension to oral skills and from reading comprehension to writing skills, just as students originally learnt their native languages.
The integration of skills presupposes the use of authentic and motivating materials. Videos, radio programmes, the press and the Internet offer a wide variety of topics as well as up to date information that helps to bring the real world into the classroom.
Completing a task in the language is the ultimate objective of language learning. For example, students complete questionnaires, pass them on to their colleagues, analyse the results and take a decision (e.g. letter to the director asking for longer opening hours in the multimedia room), they have a meeting with the person in charge and often achieve a favourable result, in other words just like in real life.
All of this in line with the latest investigations by the European Council and the European Framework for language learning, teaching and evaluation.
Our teachers
All our teachers have university degrees and are specialists in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. We have a Spanish teacher training department whose mission is to homogenise our methods and educational principles in order to meet the demands and needs of our students.
Our aims
These are some of our main aims:
- Classes entirely in Spanish orientated towards the communicative development of our students
- Skills integration with special emphasis on listening comprehension and oral expression as well as learning and communication methods
- Lesson planning based on the students' needs and their diverse learning styles
- A varied programme which makes the most of the school's resources, as well as help for those students who are studying Spanish for specific purposes
Spanish in Seville
Further information
CLIC International House Seville, c/ Albareda 19, 41001 Seville, Spain
Tel: +34 95 450 21 31 | Fax: +34 95 456 16 96
www.clic.es | clic@clic.es
Spanish in Spain
Spanish in Barcelona | Cordoba | Madrid | Mallorca | San Sebastian | Seville | Valencia | Vejer
IH Spain comprises the International House Spanish language schools in Barcelona,
Cordoba, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, San Sebastian, Valencia and
Vejer de la Frontera, Spain.
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