Online teaching of the Cultural Panorama of Latin America to Chinese students speaking Spanish as a foreign language

Abstract

Given the COVID-19 health pandemic that began to affect China in late January 2020, the government of the Asian country declared a lockdown, closed educational centers such as universities, and directed the transfer of teaching activities to the virtual environment; Consequently, at Jilin University, specifically in the undergraduate program in Hispanic Philology, several technological platforms began to be used. The objective of this work is to socialize the results achieved in the Teaching-Learning Process of the subject Cultural Panorama of Latin America in the virtual mode, through the use of the Microsoft Teams platform, taught to Chinese-speaking students. To this end, a set of methods was applied, with the dialectical-materialist method as the guide, together with theoretical methods such as: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction. Of the empirical methods, the questionnaire was used, based on its design, to assess the students' opinions and attitudes regarding the subject Teaching-Learning Process of the Cultural Panorama of Latin America through the use of the Microsoft Teams platform. It was confirmed that this process was very adequate, or largely adequate, in its instructive, educational and developmental dimensions. Furthermore, it was possible to continue the Teaching-Learning Process in a virtual environment and the students were able to acquire cultural content from Latin American countries, which allowed them to diversify their lexical register and continue to improve their communicative capacity. Spanish language skills, corresponding to their B1 and B2 levels.