New webinar in the “9 Months, 9 Universities” series: Teaching methodologies for adult migrants

This webinar 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, discussing the most common approaches used in teaching practice and highlighting the importance of combining communicative teaching with strategies to support literacy and the development of basic linguistic competence. 

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

The session is aimed at providing an introductory, practical, and applicable overview, focusing on reviewing the main methodological approaches applied to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language in migration contexts and to initial literacy processes, with attention to the adaptations required by multicultural and multilingual environments. 

In addition, specific examples of best practices will be used to show proposals for activities and materials designed especially for this context, where clarity, accessibility, and cultural relevance are key elements.

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, and holds a master’s degree in teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (Nebrija University), as well as 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 from the National Distance Education University (UNED), and she is currently a secondary school teacher of Spanish Language and Literature. 

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

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

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

19 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.