#19 webinar of the “9 Months, 9 Universities” series: Metodologías de enseñanza a migrantes adultos

The webinar Metodologías de enseñanza a migrantes adultos (teaching methodologies for adult migrants) will be held in Spanish on 23 October 2025 at 11:00 CEST.

This webinar introduces teaching Spanish as a language of social integration for adult migrants. The presenters will discuss the most common approaches used in teaching practice and highlight the importance of combining communicative teaching with strategies to support literacy and the development of basic language competence. 

Participants will explore effective resources created by teachers and institutions that are used to promote active participation, text comprehension, and functional language learning in everyday situations. The session will examine the role of technology as a classroom ally and show applications, platforms and digital tools that facilitate the autonomy and social inclusion of adult migrant students, and allow them to extend their learning beyond face-to-face interaction.

The session aims to provide an introductory, practical, and applicable overview of the main methodological approaches applied to teaching Spanish as a foreign language in migration contexts. In addition, it will provide an overview of initial literacy processes and give special attention to the adaptations required by multicultural and multilingual environments. 

The speakers

María Jesús Llorente Puerta has a doctorate in equity and innovation in education from the University of Oviedo and a licenciatura (full undergraduate degree) in Hispanic philology. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in teaching Spanish as a foreign language (Nebrija University), and a master’s degree in socio-educational research and intervention (University of Oviedo, Uniovi). 

With more than 25 years’ experience teaching Spanish to immigrant and refugee students, she is an expert in adult education certified by the National Distance Education University (UNED), and she is currently a secondary school teacher for Spanish language and literature. 

From 2001 to 2021, she worked at Accem, and currently, she is collaborating with the Master’s Degree in Spanish as a Foreign Language of the Uniovi and the Menéndez Pelayo International University. She is also a member of the intercultural and anti-racist group Eleuterio Quintanilla.

Marcin Sosinski holds a doctorate in philology and is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish Language at the University of Granada. His research fields are sociolinguistics, phraseology, and Spanish as a foreign language. 

He has coordinated several European projects on teacher training for migrants in Spain and participated in social and educational initiatives in NGOs for over 20 years. Marcin has a strong focus on teaching, research and knowledge transfer in migration contexts.

9 Months, 9 Universities is a series of guest lectures that focus on specific topics related to language and culture and target mainly graduate and postgraduate students as well as Early-Stage Researchers and lecturers interested in these topics. The lectures are intended to generate awareness and appreciation for the topic of multilingualism as well as an understanding of the many areas of our lives that are influenced by language.