Master in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish
Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER)
Key Information
Campus location
Barcelona, Spain
Languages
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Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
25 - 30 months
Pace
Part time
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Introduction
In recent times, the privileged position that the Spanish language has come to occupy among the languages of the world and the consequent increase in the demand for the teaching of Spanish have revealed the need to advance, investigate and train in this field.
Spanish is currently the second language of international communication and the fourth most widely spoken in the world (it is the mother tongue of more than 400 million people who live in more than 20 countries). In the United States there are more than 30 million Spanish speakers and in Canada Spanish is the language with the highest growth. Likewise, the explosive demand for Spanish as a foreign language courses that originated in the early 1990s, and which has been increasing progressively up to the present, is another positive factor that denotes the importance of training good professionals.
Europe is beginning to experience a rather similar situation. According to data from the Cervantes Institute, between four and five million people study Spanish as a foreign language in the European Union. Likewise, interest in the Spanish language has increased in countries that have recently joined the EU, or in countries like Norway or Switzerland, where the rise in the number of students is very significant. One consequence of this trend is the marked increase in demand for Spanish courses that has arisen worldwide.
In this context, FUNIBER offers a training program for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language whose main objective is to respond to this new reality. The contents of the Master's Degree in Linguistics applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language and those of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training of Spanish as a Foreign Language are identical. The only thing that varies is the name and degree of the same depending on the university where the student has enrolled.
The contents of the Master's Degree in Linguistics applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language and those of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training of Spanish as a Foreign Language are identical. The only thing that varies is the name and degree of the same depending on the university where the student has enrolled.