Teaching Spanish in the United States in the digital age: Strategies and approaches on teaching Spanish in online and hybrid classes

Abstract

Virtual technologies are omnipresent in everyday life and are becoming essential to either online, or hybrid classes. In higher education institutions in the United States, virtual platforms are in-creasingly used for teaching Spanish as a foreign language to students from varying back-grounds. As such, this article proposes an approach to teaching grammar in virtual spaces, that takes into account the communicative goals established in a given syllabus. The methods and strategies we propose offer an attractive language course that allows students to remotely learn and practice a language. As Spanish professors who teach beginning to intermediate level stu-dents, we will share our strategies for teaching grammar using concrete examples from our clas-ses. We will also present data that show some measures of efficiency to teach Spanish grammar in a virtual setting.

Keywords

• Foreign language
• Communicative goals
• Spanish grammar
• Distance teaching and learning