The Diplomat
The director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, has signed a collaboration agreement in Tunisia with Repsol Exploración Murzuq, S.A. to promote the teaching of the Spanish language in Libya.
Under this agreement, signed this Tuesday by García Montero during his working visit to Tunisia, about twenty Libyan teachers of Spanish will take an online course with the Instituto Cervantes this year to improve their teaching methodology of our language in this Maghreb country. The Spanish ambassador to Libya, Francisco Javier García-Larrache, attended the signing of the agreement at the headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Tunis.
Repsol, represented at the signing by its proxy, Simone Sciamanna, will sponsor the design, delivery and evaluation of an Instituto Cervantes Internet course, lasting between 100 and 120 hours and aimed at Libyan teachers of Spanish as a foreign language. For its part, the Cervantes teacher training department will design the course, which will be developed on the Institute’s Moodle platform and will have a practical approach to encourage, through activities (individual and group), participation and cooperative work among those enrolled.
A total of 15 to 20 Libyan teachers will be able to enroll in the course to update their methodological knowledge and learn how to develop key teacher competencies in teaching Spanish. Teachers must have experience in teaching foreign languages (not necessarily Spanish) and have a B2 level of proficiency in Spanish if they are not Spanish speakers.
The signing of this agreement to expand the teaching of Spanish in a country like Libya was one of the highlights of the working trip made by Luis García Montero to Tunisia. In addition, on Tuesday he held a meeting with the staff of the Cervantes headquarters in Tunis, headed by its director, Germinal Gil de Gracia, and participated, at the residence of the Spanish ambassador, Guillermo Ardizone, in a meeting with Hispanists, poets and cultural managers. Before returning to Madrid, García Montero presented yesterday the Spanish Day Conference together with the director of the Higher Institute of Tunisian Languages (ISLT) of the University of Carthage.
