Instructor Training Needs for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language to Adult Migrants

Abstract

Adult Continuing Education Centers (ACEC) have experienced an increase in the number of migrants without knowledge of Spanish, creating new didactic and methodological needs.

This article analyses the data obtained from a questionnaire addressed to continuing education teachers in Huelva and its province, with the aim of detecting specific methodological needs.   

The qualitative study of the contexts observed shows serious deficiencies both in the implementation of multiliteracies and in the use of multimodal resources, due to the shortage of training and materials adapted to the particular characteristics of the students. There is also a lack of specific attention to socio-cultural aspects that could support their social integration.

The article concludes with a reflection on the fundamental aspects for the development of multimodal materials that can improve the attention to migrants in an effective and meaningful way.

profesorado de centros de adultos, migrantes; multiliteracidad, multimodalidad