The Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (in Spanish, MAELE) aims at training teachers and researchers working with Spanish as a foreign language in aspects of linguistics, culture, literature and didactics. The program’s comprehensive scope focuses on current issues in the fields of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and grammar, using different approaches that combine with cultural and pedagogical studies about Spanish.
Degree awarded
Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language
Student profile
- Graduates from programs related to the Master's Degree subject areas (Spanish Language and Foreign Languages, Translation, Literature, Communication Sciences, language sciences) given by Argentine or foreign universities.
- Graduates from a non-university higher education program (minimum program duration: 4 years).
Enrollment dates
Enrollment is now closed. Enrollment will not be opened in 2022.
Program duration
Students take the required courses within a period of two years.
They then have a period of 6 to 12 months to write and submit their dissertation.
Mode of delivery
30% of the program is delivered online, whereas 70% comprises on-campus courses given on Fridays and Saturdays every two weeks at the University Campus.
Academic body
Program director:
Silvia I. Sosa de Montyn, M.A.
Academic Advisory Committee:
Isolda Carranza, Ph.D.
Ana María Morra, Ph.D.
Luis Alejandro Ballesteros, Ph.D.
Susana Liruso, M.A.
Ana María Bocca, M.A.
María Gina Furlan, M.A.
Curriculum
It is designed around two lines of study: I. theoretical and descriptive and II. methodological. The curriculum is developed over 4 four-month terms comprising 11 theoretical and practical courses, on-campus seminars and online sessions. The program has been updated in full for the upcoming class of students.
Courses and seminars cover the following subject areas:
• History of the Spanish language in the American continent
• Glotopolitics
• Contemporary Spanish norm and usage
• Contrastive grammar
• Language and cognition
• Language learning
• Cognitive semantics
• Interactional approach and sociocultural pragmatics
• Discourse analysis
• Literature written in Spanish as a cultural component
• Spanish for specific purposes
• Curriculum and materials development
• Spanish as a foreign language and new technologies
• Subject-specific didactics
• Linguistic research methodology and writing of the dissertation
Tuition and fees:
Please contact aranceles.posgrado@lenguas.unc.edu.ar or call (+54) 351 434 3214, ext. 161
Contact information:
Silvia Sosa, M.A.
E-mail: direccion.maele@fl.unc.edu.ar
Mondays and Fridays 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
(+54) 351 434 3214 - 18, ext. 144