SPANISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

During the winter semester 2017-2018 the Foreign Languages Center of the University of Ioannina organized a short intensive course in Spanish for Academic purposes. Lessons took place from 9th October till 15th December by Jaime Sanz Burdiel (BA in Spanish Philology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, MA in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language) and it was a great success.

The students’ interest was unexpectedly large and more than 250 signed up to participate in the programme. Finally, around 70 students were accepted and 3 groups were put together, two for beginners’ level (A1) and one for students in intermediate level (B1).
The students of all levels evaluated the programme very positively. It is also worth mentioning that all the participants showed a great progress in their language level based on the language pre- and post-assessment tests. We do hope that this course will continue in the following years.
We would like to thank especially Jaime Sanz Burdiel who encouraged the students throughout the whole course and put into practice effective innovative teaching methods. The Academic coordinator of the programme was Dr. T. Tseligka, Senior Teaching Fellow in English Language.