Oral and Written Skills: Teaching Strategies

Specialize wherever and whenever you want, from any electronic device with an Internet connection"  

This intensive Postgraduate Certificate will provide teachers with the oral and written skills that will later be transmitted to their students in Spanish in foreign language classrooms. Over the course of 2 months, students will also delve into non-verbal communication, as it is a form of communication involved in the process of gathering information.

This Postgraduate Certificate will pay special attention to the skills linked to the communicative process: reading comprehension/writing and listening comprehension/speaking, and the relationship between them. The classification that defines them is stipulated by the CEFR, showing the ways of working in the classroom and the strategies to develop them in the classroom environment.

The teacher will be able to explain and resolve confusing questions regarding grammar or the evaluation process for their students. It will include a complete vocabulary teaching methodology and different techniques and educational material, taught by leading experts in the field with extensive experience in the educational sector.

Thanks to the e-learning methodology on which this Postgraduate Certificate is based, you will learn more quickly and easily”

This Postgraduate Certificate in Oral and Written Skills: Teaching Strategies, contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• Intensely visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents, easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems.
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-assessment and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums.
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

Through a realistic approach that incorporates contextualization as a working tool, you will learn to deal with real classroom situations, acquiring real skills as a teacher"

The teaching staff includes teaching professionals, who bring their experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists belonging to leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the educator must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the teacher will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by recognized specialists in the field of teaching.

Update your knowledge on the teaching of Oral and Written Skills in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, with a high-quality and prestigious Postgraduate Certificate”

This Postgraduate Certificate will allow you to apply what you have learned in your daily teaching practice, immediately and with total confidence”

The contents of this Postgraduate Certificate have been developed by different experts with a clear purpose: to ensure that our students acquire each and every one of the skills necessary to become true experts in this field.

A complete and well-structured program that will take you to the highest standards of quality and success.

Take the step and specialize under the guidance of the best professionals in the international education sector"

Module 1. Oral and Written Skills: Teaching Strategies  

1.1.  Introduction to Communicative Skills
1.2.  Educational Skills in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

1.2.1. Communicating as a Means of Information

1.3.  Types of Skills

1.3.1.  Skills within the Educational Framework
1.3.2.  Cognitive Skills
1.3.3.  Intrinsic Value Tasks

1.4.  Explanation of Semantic Skills

1.4.1.  Understanding the Reality of the Classroom
1.4.2.  Language as an Object of Observation and Analysis
1.4.3.  Knowledge and Effective Application of Linguistic Rules

1.5.  Sociocultural Context and Language Use: Sociolinguistic Competence

1.5.1.  Vocabulary according to the Type of Culture
1.5.2.  Influence of Advertising on the Linguistic Shape of Culture

1.6.  Conversation: Pragmatic Competence

1.6.1.  Communicative Competence as a Learning Goal
1.6.2.  Discourse Competence by Context

1.7.  Forms of Politeness Derived from Pragmatic Competence

1.7.1.  Sequence and Macrocontext
1.7.2.  Overall Discursive Intent

1.8.  Non-Verbal Language in Gestural Communication

1.8.1.  Positioning, Gestures, Gaze and Mimicry

1.8.1.1. Factors Associated with Non-Verbal Language

1.9.  Reading and Writing Comprehension

1.9.1.  Comprehensive Analysis of Reading and Writing

1.10.  Listening Comprehension

1.10.1.  Comprehensive Analysis of Listening and Speaking Tasks

1.11.  CEFR and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Reading Comprehension in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

1.11.1.  Literature to Learn Language or to Learn Literature
1.11.2.  Common European Framework (CEFR) and Reading Comprehension Guidelines

1.12.  CEFR and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Listening Comprehension in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

1.12.1.  Analysis of Types of Skills to Be Developed in Listening Comprehension

1.13.  CEFR and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Oral Comprehension in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

1.13.1. Speech as a Means of Making Yourself Understood

1.14.  CEFR and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language: Written Comprehension in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

1.14.1.  The Dissociation between Written Comprehension and Written Creation

1.15.  Skills Assessment: Speaking and Listening Context

1.15.1.  How to Evaluate Speaking and Listening Depending on the Classroom Context and Prevailing Culture?

1.16.  Skills Assessment: Reading and Writing Context

1.16.1.  How to Evaluate Reading and Writing Depending on the Classroom Context and Prevailing Culture? 

A unique, key, and decisive training experience to boost your professional development”