What is SinoELE?

SinoELE is an international research group created by José Miguel Blanco Pena, Alberto Sánchez Griñán and  Nicolás Arriaga Agrelo during the “II Teacher Training Seminars of Spanish as a Foreign Language” (organized by Cervantes Institute and the Education Office of China last June-July 2009 in Beijing). Its main goal is to promote the studies about the teaching (and learning) of Spanish as a Foreign Language to Chinese native speakers.

The work of SinoELE is to advance in the following directions:

a) research projects proposed, and carried out by SinoELE group members;

b) a thorough collection of original, adapted or already published papers, dissertations and didactic materials meant to address the needs of the teachers and learners of Spanish as a foreign language in the Chinese-speaking contexts; and

c) through an academic journal, published online and open to collaborations from all the teaching professionals in the community in the form of articles, book reviews, and other materials related to the teaching and learning of Spanish in the already mentioned cases.

SinoELE is not a closed research group, but a working space opened to professionals of the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language to Chinese learners willing to work in a team, share ideas and experiences and to internationally disseminate their academic work. We invite all the colleagues interested in cooperating in our project to join SinoELE.