Virtual teaching of Spanish as a foreign language: From an empirical study to a didactic application

Abstract

This article presents the results of an empirical study that allowed us to identify the needs for the design of an instructional unit for the virtual teaching of Spanish as a Second/Foreign Language (ELE). The general objective of the research in which the study is framed was to propose a curricular design for ELE virtual teaching. Among the conclusions it is highlighted that coherence between the identified needs, the proposed curricular design and the prototype unit allows showing the articulation between the different levels of curricular concreteness: the macro-level corresponding to the complete curricular design; the meso-level to planning and the micro-level to the didactic application.