The advantages of learning Spanish in an immersion context give a definite success in the acquisition of the language, allowing the student to keep in touch  with real contexts of emission and to put into practice the use of the language in daily situations. Advantages that are even bigger when the learning is guided by a native teacher who teaches Spanish varieties in communicative situations. The acquisition of this context allows the native teacher to notice their students' achievements in the language, because they are constantly integrating the knowledge they have learned (during the class and when the class is over) with new communicative situations. For example, and my personal experience has shown me that when teaching the characteristics and the contrast of two types of past tenses, after doing the exercises,  the student is able to recognise them in other situations and use them properly when talking about their past experiences.

The improvements in students’ Spanish learning are noticed day after day, the improvements are always part of a process, and they appear not only in the absorption of the basic Spanish gramatical data, but also in the most natural way of dealing with language sounds and new Spanish words. It is also an important rate the ability of self-correction the students acquires.

Clelia Sartori
Teacher of English
Teacher of Spanish for foreigners