ELE Student profile
Entry profile
- Applicants from 14 years of age.
- Predominantly in an immersion context, face-to-face. However, Avenida al Español also offers the possibility of taking the ELE programme online.
- Interest in the knowledge of the structures of the Spanish language and its updating in specific socio-cultural situations.
- Interest in the acquisition and development of linguistic skills that will enable students to work in academic and professional environments in the Spanish-speaking world, especially in Spain. For this reason, the profile of our applicants is predominantly, but not exclusively, pre-university and university.
- It is not essential to have previous knowledge of the Spanish language or Spanish-speaking cultures.
- So far, most of our students have a linguistic Arabic-speaking origin.
Graduate profile
- Graduate able to function effectively in Spanish, in accordance with the level studied, in real contexts in both academic (university entrance exams, university entrance) and professional contexts.
- Competent speaker of Spanish in diverse situations (formal and informal) and varied linguistic registers (colloquial, professional, academic, recreational).
- A speaker linked to real contexts. Able to understand and interact in Spanish at the level of reading comprehension, oral expression and interaction, listening comprehension and written expression and interaction.
- Competent in the understanding of linguistic, cultural and pragmatic knowledge of Spanish in the immediate context (Spain), as well as in non-immediate contexts that are part of the wider Spanish-speaking world.
- Able and motivated to participate in official exams that give an account of their level of linguistic and socio-cultural performance in Spanish, such as SIELE and DELE.
