Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Though the popularity of Spanish as a foreign language has grown immensely in the last ten years in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, little attention has been given to the attitudes of Spanish teachers and instructors toward foreign language teaching or to their education and continuous training. To help teachers understand better their role in promoting and teaching Spanish language and culture to Yugoslav students, a survey of their attitudes and assumptions about curriculum and methods was conducted. The results indicate that the Spanish teaching staff in Belgrade still has very traditional views of the language instruction process and that a strong need exists for the organization of Spanish teachers' training programs and for their integration into a broader international community of Spanish teachers through diverse means of professional communication which would enable our teaching staff to receive information about the most recent developments in this area

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