scholarships and grants
Spanish as a Foreign Language: Research and Professional Practices
Recommended applicant profile and admission requirements
Recommended applicant profile
The ideal candidates to take the master's degree are graduates in Spanish. In addition, the study programme could be interesting for Spanish or international students of other languages, linguistics, humanities, social sciences, teacher training, translation and interpretation, or education.
Our course is attractive to graduates in any area who are interested in studying the Spanish language, to learn about its structure and gain a command of the contexts of its interpersonal and social use. It could also be interesting to students who are aware of the importance of an expert command of Spanish as a relevant skill. Consequently, the coordinating committee of the master's degree will study each of the applications and could accept students from different academic backgrounds to the ideal if they have a special interest in the study programme and can prove that they have professional experience (or have carried out training activities) relating to the area of Spanish as a foreign language.
Our course is attractive to graduates in any area who are interested in studying the Spanish language, to learn about its structure and gain a command of the contexts of its interpersonal and social use. It could also be interesting to students who are aware of the importance of an expert command of Spanish as a relevant skill. Consequently, the coordinating committee of the master's degree will study each of the applications and could accept students from different academic backgrounds to the ideal if they have a special interest in the study programme and can prove that they have professional experience (or have carried out training activities) relating to the area of Spanish as a foreign language.
Admission requirements
In accordance with Article 16 of Royal Decree 1393/29 October 2007, students must hold one of the following qualifications to access university master's degree courses:
- An official Spanish degree.
- A degree issued by a higher education institution within the European Higher Education Area framework that authorizes the holder to access university master's degree courses in the country of issue.
- A qualification from outside the framework of the European Higher Education Area. In this case, the qualification should be recognized as equivalent to an official Spanish degree. If it is not recognized, the University of Barcelona shall verify that it corresponds to a level of education that is equivalent to official Spanish degrees and that it authorizes the holder to access university master's degree courses in the country of issue. Admission shall not, in any case, imply that prior qualifications have been recognized as equivalent to a Spanish master's degree and does not confer recognition for any purposes other than that of admission to the master's degree course.
Specific requirements
Graduates in Spanish (no bridging courses required) have priority.
Graduates with previous training related to the following courses: graduates in linguistics, philology (of any language), modern languages, humanities, translation and interpretation, teacher training and foreign language teaching methodology (no bridging courses required).
Graduates of qualifications other than the above, in areas similar to the master's degree (humanities or social sciences), may need to take bridging courses if they do not have previous training in linguistics or philology
(12 ECTS), depending on the specialisation, the subjects that were taken in the degree, the teacher training courses in SFL/L2 that they have completed before the master's degree or their professional experience in SFL/L2 teaching.
Candidates of the master's degree who are from foreign universities, even if they are graduates in philology, may need bridging courses if the review of their academic transcripts shows that they have only instrumental training in Spanish.
Graduates with previous training related to the following courses: graduates in linguistics, philology (of any language), modern languages, humanities, translation and interpretation, teacher training and foreign language teaching methodology (no bridging courses required).
Graduates of qualifications other than the above, in areas similar to the master's degree (humanities or social sciences), may need to take bridging courses if they do not have previous training in linguistics or philology
(12 ECTS), depending on the specialisation, the subjects that were taken in the degree, the teacher training courses in SFL/L2 that they have completed before the master's degree or their professional experience in SFL/L2 teaching.
Candidates of the master's degree who are from foreign universities, even if they are graduates in philology, may need bridging courses if the review of their academic transcripts shows that they have only instrumental training in Spanish.