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ECELA SPANISH COURSE METHOD |
The ECELA instructional approach focuses on achievements in all language areas and skills (acquisition converted to active production).
The following language skills are developed with students through ECELA:
1) ORAL COMPREHENSION
2) READING COMPREHENSION
3) PRACTICAL GRAMMAR USE
4) WRITTEN EXPRESSION
5) ORAL EXPRESSION |
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ECELA group classes consist of 20 weekly hours, which are divided into 10 hours of
interactive grammar and 10 hours of conversation and communication.
A) INTERACTIVE GRAMMAR (2 HOURS DAILY):
With our method, students take a lead role in their own learning, working in groups or pairs. By working with the professor’s instructions, students will be able to observe, analyze, discover, understand, and assimilate the grammar with the result of applying these skills to practical use (real situations that arise in daily life). Students observe, discover, and understand how the language functions instead of a gaining a shallow understanding of memorized rules. The ultimate goal is a personal ownership and an understanding over grammatical rules. This methodology is based on Guided Learning principles. |
B) CONVERSATION & COMMUNICATION (2 HOURS DAILY):
These classes are designed to apply grammar learned earlier in the course using dynamic activities that simultaneously contribute to the development of the students’ speaking and listening skills. There is a wide variety of activities, including debates, role playing, simulations, presentations, audio comprehension, small group or pair work, brief film clips, etc. In this way, students will learn to defeat the fear and self-consciousness of communicating in a new language within the classroom, before employing more confident language use outside of the classroom. |
Communicative Method plus Guided Learning. This methodology aims at learning through observation, analysis, comprehension, application, and linguistic production that can be represented with a pyramid.
ECELA COURSE DETAILS
ECELA classes are divided in two blocks, Grammar & Conversation. The different blocks are designed according to the student’s skills and level; therefore, if a student is good in speaking, but no so much in writing, he/she will be placed in two different levels, with different teachers and classmates.
This way we can be assured that all the classes in ECELA are in tune with the student’s communication, grammar, reading and writing skills. |
Course Offered.
These courses are designed with the primary focus of giving students a thorough understanding of reading, writing and speaking Spanish. All key grammatical components are covered in a sequence. Levels from beginner through advanced. Applied conversation is a key focus, and cultural discussion topics will be used to expand upon students’ vocabulary and conversational skills.
The course have a duration of four weeks, for a total of 120 contact hours. (1 contact hour =50 minutes)
First day at School:
- 08:00am Placement oral test (student may take an online test)
- 09:00am After the placement test we will assign the students to an appropriate level and they will start classes that same day, either in the morning or in the afternoon session, depending on their level and school availability.
- 01:00pm Welcome & Orientation snack. The students will meet the School Staff and will be given useful information to move around the city: Public transportation, safety, places to go, etc.
- Breaks: Morning 10:40 – 11:00 hours / afternoon 15:40 – 16:00 hours
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Timetable class
Morning session
09:00 - 10:40 Grammar block
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:40 Cconversation block |
Afternoon Session
14:00 - 15:40 Grammar block
15:40 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:40 Conversation block |
Class Materials:
The basic tool we use in class is our set of Spanish books that were especially designed to fit our intensive courses and teaching system. The learning method by which we form our students' Spanish knowledge, is the Communicative Method and our books and method also involve the development of reading and writing abilities, oral and writing skills and a practical use of Spanish grammar.
In class, our teachers also use special materials customized to the different requirements and interests of our multicultural students. They can be flashcards, photographs, ELE (Español Lengua Extranjera) didactic games, maps, exercises guides, real audio texts, actual extracts from newspapers and magazines and many more.
Spanish Language Levels
These courses are designed with the primary focus of giving the students a thorough understanding of reading, writing and speaking Spanish. All key grammatical components are covered in a sequence, from beginners through advanced. Applied conversation is a key focus, and cultural discussion topics will be used to expand upon students’ vocabulary and conversational skills.
Final Tests: Students will take a test the fourth week of classes.
| SUMMARY OF ECELA SPANISH LEVELS |
| Level |
Description |
Skills developed after successfully finish the level. |
A1
EL PRESENTE
EL PRESENTE COMPENDIO* |
New grammatical contents starting from ABC
2 weeks length |
You will be able to talk about usual activities, answer survival questions, give basic descriptions and compare people and places. |
A1
EL PASADO |
New grammatical contents
2 weeks length.
Every week uses a book. |
You will learn to talk about past actions, routines and events. Expressions to talk on the phone and in a hotel and a restaurant. |
A2
EL FUTURO
LOS VERBOS REFLEXIVOS
LOS TIEMPOS CONTINUOS
EL CONDICIONAL |
New grammatical contents
4 weeks length
Every week uses a book. |
You will be able to talk about future actions and plans, actions that happen at the time of speaking and expressions used at the doctor, at the drugstore, for shopping, to suggest, to invite and others. |
B1
El PRETÉRITO PERFECTO
El PRESENTE DEL SUBJUNTIVO
EL IMPERFECTO DEL SUBJUNTIVOLOS COMPLEMENTOS PRONOMINALES |
Review and new grammatical contents and practice.
2 weeks length.
Every week uses a book. |
You will expand your skills to talk about the past and learn to express necessity, wishes, and recommendations, to express emotions, value judgments, opinions, doubts and consent. You will also learn expressions of condition.
How to act in interviews for a job, etc. |
B1
EL PRESENTE DEL SUBJUNTIVO |
New grammatical contents and practice.
2 weeks length.
Every week uses a book. |
You will be able to express emotions, value judgments, opinions, doubts and consent. You will also learn expressions of condition. |
B2
EL PASADO DEL SUBJUNTIVO
LAs HIPÓTESIS
EL DISCURSO INDIRECTO
LA VOZ PASIVA |
New grammatical contents and practice.
4 weeks length.
Every week uses a new book. |
You will be able to talk about possible and very unlikely actions. To report what other people said and to express consequence, probability, complaint, doubt, denial. |
C1
LAS TRADICIONES
LAS RELACIONES
LA POLÍTICA
LOS PROBLEMAS DE AMERICA LATINA |
Review of contents and practice.
4 weeks length.
Every week uses a book.
The 4 books can be studied in any which way (at random). |
You will learn about the most well known traditions of some Latin American countries, the way Latin people establish their relationships, the way they do their politics and some of the major problems in Latin American society. |
C2
LA VIDA EN AMÉRICA LATINA
LOS MEDIOS
LA CULTURA LATINA
LA LITERATURA LATINA |
Review of contents and practice.
4 weeks length.
Every week uses a book.
The 4 books can be studied in any which way (at random). |
You will learn about the way the Latin people live, the importance of the media in their societies. Some typical artists, places, food, films, music and a brief review of their most famous writers, poets and literature movements. |
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skype: booking.ecela / Phone USA: +1 7863758098
Buenos Aires: 54 (11)-4827-9228, Mendoza: 54 (261) 423-4250 /
Santiago: 56(2)
9186-730, Viña del Mar: 56(32)-320-5372 / Lima: 51
(1) 241-0918,
Cusco: 51(84)
984-917-707 / Fax: USA 1(866)310-5327 |
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