Upskilling to teach Spanish
Guest blog by Kerry Phipps, MFL French and Spanish teacher and ALL Council member Teaching background After studying French and Art at university, then completing a Masters in French Translation, I became a primary teacher with responsibility for French throughout the...
Supporting a student with visual impairment
Alison Hayes, York St John University Supporting a student with a visual impairment over two semesters has been a challenge requiring a few changes to our systems. We did not always get everything right the first time, but we learnt as we went on and it has been...
Las ganas
Basil Turner, High Wycombe Language students should be encouraged to have ganas or at least a positive attitude to acquiring them. The pithy Spanish modismo using gana may be used positively as in ‘tengo ganas de estudiar el español’, meaning I am keen to study...
Propuesta didáctica para ¡Ay, Carmela! y La Hora de los Valientes
Carlos Sanz Mingo (Cardiff University) La Guerra Civil española ha sido fuente inagotable de material para el cine español, que hizo uso de la misma desde poco después de terminar el conflicto (por ejemplo, Raza, de 1942). Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976) marca un...