Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Granada

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This School is a language centre, dedicated solely to teaching languages. It is part of a  net of language schools distributed throughout Andalucia (south Spain). The bigger schools (eg. Málaga ) offers courses in over 10  different languages. At Granada  we offer 5 languages, Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish as a  foreign language. If you want further information on Language schools, have a look at http://eeooii.org .

There are 3 levels ( Implemented in year 2006/07, Basic, Intermediate and Advanced) divided each into 2 different courses. The first two-course level leads to the Basic Certificate; the second level leads to the Intermediate Certificate and the third level leads to the Advanced Certificate, which, outside of university education, is the most prestigious language degree awarded in Spain.

We also offer special courses for primary teachers involved in bilingual schools projects and courses by distance mode.

The certificates awarded by language Schools are officially recognised by the SME. They enable Primary School teachers, who already hold a university degree, to teach the target language at the first cycle in Secondary Education, without these certificates they are only able to teach at Primary Level.

The certificates also satisfy entry-requirements for officially recognised exams, exchanges and training. Although they do not guarantee a job straight away, holders of these certificates make extremely competitive applicants for jobs in public and private companies.

Our students are a mixture of adults and teenagers; the minimum age to register is 14 and, in theory, there is no upper age limit. As this is not compulsory education and we have a large number of adult students, motivation tends to be higher than in Highs Schools. We also don´t have to face any serious discipline problems or disruptive behaviour among our younger students.

In 2005/2006  we´ll be sharing the building with a high school where  we´ll be able to offer a multimedia room, language lab and a library, classrooms equipped with cassettes players, classroom library and there will be as well three fully equipped classrooms with hi-fi systems and video/dvd and other facilities such as OHP, video projector;  a Language Resource Centre with a serviceable collection of materials which enable us to maintain high standards of teaching and access to the internet from Administration, Management, Staff room and all classes.

We also offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities throughout the year.

If you are interested in improving your Spanish, March is the time for signing up.

If you are interested in coming to the school to work with us, take a look at the information about Language Assistants and Comenius Grants.(soon available) We would also be glad to hear from you if you are interested in participating in a Lingua/Comenius project. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.