Spanish Language Teaching
Program Description
The integrated professional image pursued by this study plan is supported in a design that allows students to adjust progressively in each training area since the first semester. Thus, enabling students to perform efficiently in different modalities and levels of education.
Teachers trained by the program can work in any public, charter, and private school. The program promotes knowledge in the fields of literature, linguistics, and education. In first place, knowledge on literature is related to theoretical-critical models, and conceptual and aesthetic paradigms. This comprehension is focused in Latin American literature and how it engages with other cultural traditions. It also focuses on understanding literature and its contexts, which develops critical, interpretative and didactic competences within their especialization. In second place, knowledge on linguistics allows access for students to theories and models, which enables them to comprehend the properties of language in all of its phases of production. Special emphasis is placed in the development of specific competences oriented to text production, specifically, production and comprehension skills. Lastly, the program trains teachers in aspects like curriculum, management and school evaluation based on theoretical learning models, didactic-methodological strategies and contributions from philosophy, psychology, and the Latin American sociological context. These factors create a transdisciplinary insight in our students concerning the problems in education. Within this framework, the Spanish Education proffesional from USACH is trained ethically by respecting cultural and social diversity and the competences implied in the communicative situations that they promote and participate in.
Graduate Profile
The professional graduated from the Spanish Language Teaching program at USACH is a teacher able to carry out the following tasks:
- To design, implement and evaluate learning experiences in secondary schools concerning the fields of language, literature and multimodal communication by taking into consideration elements such as: curricular framework; study plans and programs; context; objective and role of the teaching process; didactic strategies focused on developing production and comprehension skills in both written and spoken language.
- To reflect with a critical sense on the educative process and their own professional performance from a Latin Americanistic perspective committed to citizenship. The main goal of this process is not only to improve pedagogical practice and the students learning process, but also to teach them about their options as social agents of change by exercising their citizenship.
- To guide students through their individual and collective processes from a pedagogical, psychological, and civic perspective. With the objective of acheving a well-rounded ethical, emotional and sexual development based on school and community support networks, where they serve as mediators between the institution, the parents and the students.
- To design and implement research projects on education by integrating language, literature, communication, pedagogy, didactics, curriculum and evaluation; all this from a theoretical perspective applied to Spanish language learning.
- Too coordinate and develop educational teams and institutional policies on a Spanish-area or educative-level scale, by taking taking into account elements such as: the organizational structure, the legal framework and the characteristics of actors from the school community. The main goal of this process is to promote academic and educational aspects linked to the development of students, together with other characteristics of their work.
Contact
Head of the Program:
Dr. Patricio Moya Muñoz
Secretary:
Nayareth Baeza Muñoz
The study plan includes: courses, optional seminars, workshops, and teaching practices. All these activities are focused on the development of knowledge and skills needed for literary, linguistics and pedagogical studies. It also emphasizes communication skills, social responsibility, autonomy, and teamwork.
Our study plan comprises the following fields:
Applied and Theoretical Linguistics
- Literature Area
- Teacher Training Area (Including content implementation and synthesis)
- Communication Skills Development Area
The students are also able to intervene in the design of their own formation process through optional courses, with the main purpose of channeling not only their creativity, but also their personal and professional concerns.
Full-Time Professors - Program Committee
Dr. Patricio Moya Muñoz. patricio.moya@usach.cl - Head of the Program
Dr. Gisela Watson Castro. gisela.watson@usach.cl - Teaching Methods Area Coordinator
Dr. (c) Jorge Sánchez Sánchez. jorge.sanchez.s@usach.cl - Schooul Outreach Supervisor from the Spanish Language Teaching program
Dr. Jèssica Pujol Durán. jessica.pujol@usach.cl - Literature Area Coordinator
Dr. Andrea Jeftanovic Avdaloff. andrea.jeftanovic@usach.cl
Dr. Sebastián Reyes Gil. sebastian.reyes.g@usach.cl
Dr. Domingo Román Montes de Oca. domingo.roman@usach.cl - Linguistics Area Coordinator
Dr. Manuel Rubio Manríquez. manuel.rubio@usach.cl
Dr. Jorge Rueda Castro. jorge.rueda@usach.cl - Academic Degree Seminar Coordinator
Adjunct Professors
Dr. Jaime Barrientos. jaime.barrientos@usach.cl
Dr. José de la Fuente. jdelafuente@ucsh.cl
Dr. Jorge Ferrada. jferrada@ucsh.cl
Dr. Marcos Figueroa. cinema77@gmail.com
Dr. Rosa María Gutiérrez. rosamaguba@hotmail.com
Ms. Eduardo Araya. mandaliex@gmail.com
Ms. Patricia Avilés. patriciax.avilesr@gmail.com
Ms. Pamela Baeza. pamela.baeza@usach.cl
Ms. Adán Caro. adan.caro@usach.cl
Ms. Virginia Espinoza. virginiajulia@gmail.com
Prof. Fernando Morales. femoralesg@gmail.com
Ms. Jeannette Pacheco. jeannette.pacheco@usach.cl
Ms. Miguel Pedraza. miguel.pedraza@chilecalifica.cl
Prof. Lila Rojas. lilarojasce@yahoo.es
Prof. Patricia Salfate. patricia.salfate@usach.cl
Ms. Karen Segovia. karen.segovia@usach.cl
Ms. Luis Alfonso Tecas. luis.tecas@usach.cl
Ms. Salomé Villagrán. salito1125@gmail.com
The virtualization team is responsible of supporting the virtualization process in every program from the faculty. It is composed of a multidisciplinary team comprised by lecturers and instructional and graphic designers.
This team oversees the creation of strategies to assist lecturers in the virtualization of their courses by distributing support material, providing virtualization training activities and coordinating training instances to further improve virtual teaching directed towards the lecturers from the faculty.
If you are interested in participating in any training activity, notify your Program Director to contact with the academic coordinator from the project: Gisela Watson: gisela.watson@usach.cl
If you have any inquire regarding the use of moodle or the virtualization team, please contact instructional designer Vivien Valenzuela: vivien.valenzuela@usach.cl. Vivien and Camila Berríos will aid you.
If you have participated in any training activities and need help with the creation of audiovisual and interactive digital resource, please contact graphic designer Macarena Saguer: macarena.saguer@usach.cl
- 2018. Coup d’poésie. Text Reading in commemoration of September 11, 1972. On Wednesday 12, September. Conference Room B, VIME. Read more.
- 2018. Change of Department Headship. Dr. Luis Hachim L. will assume the position starting from August 1st.
- 2018: Elections for student representatives. May 23rd. Images.
- 2018. World Book Day Celebration. April 23rd. Faculty of Humanities (FAHU) Hall and Villa Portales. Images.
- 2018. Open discussion: “A quick ride through the history of Chilean comics" by Mr. Hugo Hinojosa. Monday 16, April. Within the context of the “Comics & Violence” course dictated by Jorge Sánchez. Images.
- 2018. Opening Lecture: Language instructors: a link between real and theoretical language by Cristián Warnken. Wednesday 11, April. Conference Room C, VIME.
- Wednesday 29, November 2017. 17:10 to 18:50. Conference by Dr. (c) Christina Haska (Universidad Católica): Phonetic variations, stigmatization, and prestige within Chilean society. The case of “che”. University Cinema, VIME.
- November 27th: Latin Fair Membris totis communitatis invitationem facimus ut Feriam Latinam participetis, quae in via Facultatis Humanitatis facta erit ante diem quartum kalendas Decembres, inter horam septimam et nonam. Vos exspectamus! Read More.
- October 18th to 20th, 2017. Professors and students participated in the Chilean Linguistics Society (SOCHIL) Congress. Talca.
- 24 Students from our program participated in the Meeting for Language & Communication Teaching Students. Valdivia.
- October 16th, 17th.and 18th 2nd Latin American Literature and Theories Sessions. VIME. Program.
- Wednesday 27, September. Academic Session for Spanish Language Teaching Students.14:30 to 17:00. Conference Room A, VIME. Images.
- Wednesday 13, September. 11:30. Coup d’poésie. Text Reading in commemoration of September 11, 1972. Conference Room A, VIME. Poster. Read more.
- Thursday 24, August. 15:30. What, how and why do I write: Young Chilean narrators. Instituto Camoes, FAHU. Download stories in pdf formatf: 1, 2, 3 y 4.
- Professors participated at the 9th Poetry at the Colchagua Valley Festival". See poster.
- Open call for student mobility. Read more.
- August 10th. Launch event of the Mapudungun-Spanish, Spanish-Mapudungun Dictionary by F. José de Augusta. Moderator: Dr. Belén Villena.. 12:00. Read more.
- July 20th. 19:30. Countdown. 40 years of Jorge Montealegre’s poetry. Read more.
- SOCHEL 2017 Open call. Read more.
- July 5th. Our dear colleague Victor Martínez has sadly passed away. Víctor was the previous Head of the Spanish Language Teaching program and continued working here as lecturer until last year. From the current administration we offer our condolences to his dear family, friends, colleagues, and closest students.
Seminar and Thesis final report submission deadlines. Read more.
Thesis format-revision. Read more.
2017 Municipal Awards. Including the Gabriela Mistral Literary Games Award. Read more.
Open call for Cervantes Studies Meeting. Universidad de Chile. Link.
Wednesday 28, June. 10:00. Poetry and Catastrophe: Recital and dialogue with Luisa Futoransky. Baccalaureate Auditorium.
June 22nd: 18:00. Dissident poetry reading with Editorial Moda y Pueblo. Invitation by USACH Student Organization for Gender and Sexuality and students from the Spanish Language Teaching program.
June 8th: ICT for education students. Read more.
May 25th: Open call for research assistants. Project USA1502. Read more.
May 25th: 14:00. Start of Moving Dialogues event. Read more (external link).
April 26th: 10:00. Poetry recital by Argentinian author Griselda Gómez. University Cinema, VIME.
April 12th: 11:30. Lecture by Raúl Zurita. The Current State of Literary Education and Poetry. Salón de Honor (Central Campus).
March 30th: 19:00. Conference. Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics: Issues and Appliances. Dr (c). Fredy Nuñez. Classroom 324. Link to Facebook event.
March 23rd: 18:30. Vocalities and Phonetics: looking for musical poetry based on human voice. Audition and discussion by composer Fernando Munizaga. Classroom 314. Read more.
March 16th: 11:30. Academic welcoming ceremony for new students from the Spanish Language Teaching program.
March 6th. 11:30. Reception of new students.
January 10th. 10:30-13:00. Meeting for professors and student representatives.
Professors and student representatives carried out a planification and unification session to procure general criteria for the program study plan. During the meeting, general guidelines, student problems and some possible solutions were raised among other issues.
