This book is a collection of various articles on didactics, written by several international subject matter experts. They address the main questions related to the contents and the skills required for Teaching Spanish as a Second or Foreign Language.The publication is geared towards current or future teachers, professors and researchers in the field of Spanish language teaching, and it can be used as bibliographical material.Its international and collective character make this compilation special, as the contributing authors write from Spain, Portugal and Belgium, where they teach and carry out their research. The articles in this book possess a timeless quality as they tackle topics that have been studied in the past and that will still be studied in the future. Each author presents their research combining the practical and the theoretical aspects of the matter they focus on, which offers the reader a possibility to create a comprehensive view of the topic. This promotes the knowledge on specific issues, and presents the way in which theoretical knowledge can be put into practice.
María Luisa Aznar Juan, doctorada en Lingüística Aplicada. Profesora de la Facultad del Letras de la Universidad de Coímbra y del Máster Universitario en Lengua y Cultura impartido en la Universidad de El Cairo. Su docencia e investigación se desarrolla el área de la didáctica, la lengua y el análisis del discurso. Ha sido profesora visitante en la UESC (Brasil) y ha impartido clases en los cursos de español
de la Universidad de Alicante. Coordina el área de español en dos másteres de enseñanza y representa esta área en el Consejo de Formación de Profesores de la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Coímbra.
María Luisa Aznar Juan, PhD in Applied Linguistics. Teaches at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra and teaches at the International Master´s Degree in Spanish Language and Culture at the Cairo University. Her specialist areas include didactics, academic discourse and language. Has been visiting professor at the State University of Santa Cruz (Brazil) and worked on Spanish Courses at the University of Alicante (Spain). She represents the area of Spanish in two Master’s Degree and in the Teacher Education Council at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra.
Elena Gamazo Carretero, licenciada en Filología Hispánica, en Comunicación Audiovisual y Máster en Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera por la Universidad de Salamanca. Ha impartido docencia en Cursos Internacionales de la Universidad de Salamanca y en el programa de internacionalización de dicha Universidad en Cuzco (Perú); en los Institutos Politécnicos de Coímbra y Castelo
Branco; y en la Universidad de Coímbra. Al mismo tiempo está terminando su investigación doctoral (PhD) bajo la dirección de la Dra. Carmen Fernández Juncal en la Universidad de Salamanca.
Elena Gamazo Carretero, holds a degree in Hispanic Studies (Hispanic Philology), degree in Audiovisual Communication and a Master of Arts degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the University of Salamanca. She has taught at the International Courses section of the University of Salamanca, for its International Program at Cuzco (Peru); in the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra and Castelo Branco; and in University of Coimbra. She is simultaneously finishing her Doctoral degree (PhD) under the guidance of Dr. Carmen Fernández Juncal, in the University of Salamanca.