Spanish Summer Language Institute: Western New Mexico University
Boost your Spanish skills and advance your teaching career with our immersive Spanish Summer Language Institute. Designed for current and future educators, this program supports Bilingual Education and TESOL certification through an engaging blend of language, culture, and pedagogy.
Why Join?
- Build advanced Spanish proficiency
- Strengthen effective, classroom-ready teaching strategies
- Gain deep cultural knowledge for diverse learning environments
- Prepare to teach at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels
- Scholarships available to cover tuition and testing
Program Highlights
This intensive program (SPAN 407-70 & SPAN 507-70) combines:
- Second language acquisition, assessment, and proficiency-based instruction
- Hispanic language and culture electives
- Hands-on pedagogy focused on real-world teaching
Graduate students can earn up to 18 credit hours toward certification, including a reflective, practice-based final project.
Outcomes
By the end of the institute, you will:
- Communicate confidently in Spanish across speaking, writing, and interpretation
- Write with advanced grammatical accuracy
- Analyze complex cultural and social texts
- Apply Spanish effectively in academic and professional settings
- Develop lifelong language-learning strategies
Certification
Participants are prepared to take La Prueba, the Spanish proficiency assessment required for bilingual education endorsement in New Mexico.
Course Text
Taller de Escritores (4th Edition) by Paula Cañón
For more information:
Dr. Alexandra Neves – alexandra.neves@wnmu.edu
Dr. Gregory Robinson Guerra – gregory.robinsonguerra@wnmu.edu