This course is designed to bring delegates who have no background in Spanish to the point where they can communicate effectively with a native speaker of Spanish through the four language skills of writing, reading, listening and speaking. You will develop the conversational vocabulary necessary to engage with Spanish-speaking customers and business associates.
Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face
Business, tourism and hospitality workers or aspirants who wish to develop communicative competence in Spanish; those who would like to develop a career path in the tourism and hospitality industries; anyone interested in learning another language; any person who likes to travel and wants to have meaningful conversations with Spanish speakers.
The following topics will be addressed:
The course will be delivered utilising 4 hours of instruction per week divided into conversation, listening and written activities using present and future times. The course is taught through interactive language classes and small-group conversation classes for cultivating written and oral fluency. There are also laboratory classes for listening and oral work. The sessions are communicative. In the language classes, grammar will be analysed and practised through exercises, presentations, other activities such as role play and group work. Delegates will demonstrate comprehension of and show an ability to use appropriately in context, the grammar covered whilst engaging throughout with cultural materials or realia from the Spanish-speaking world. They will take part in a variety of integrated learning activities set in as authentic a context as possible. These shall include the practice of oral and aural skills through dialogues/presentations and listening exercises, reading comprehension and writing tasks.
Delegates will also complete online assignments/exercises related to course content and objectives.
Glindon Welch
Glindon Welch is an Assistant instructor in the Spanish language at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He teaches Beginners Spanish 3 and Advance Spanish (second-year) as well as Business Spanish (third-year). He received his B.A. in Spanish and Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, Cave hill Campus and his MA in International Business from Ohio University. Mr. has also completion the Certificate in University Teaching and Learning; and has done postgrad (diploma) training in language teaching in Venezuela, Colombia and Spain He has also done several courses in Spanish phonetics and phonology, translation, and undergone training in interviewing students in the oral Spanish exams sponsored by ACTFL and the UWI in St. Augustine. He has also attended translation conferences in the USA and is an Associate member of the American Translators Association. He is currently pursuing MPhil/PHD studies in Spanish Translation with a focus on the role of dialect in translation, with specific reference to works by Juan Bosch. Mr. Welch has taught at secondary schools in Barbados and in Bermuda. He has also worked at international organizations like IICA and Gildan Activewear, but has come back to his roots and vocation in teaching. In addition to teaching, he a freelance translator and is also in charge of the newly formed UWI translator Bureau. He currently resides in Christ Church, Barbados. He can be contacted at
