Learn Spanish
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Address:
Instituto de Comunicación y Cultura
307 Macedonio Alcalá Street
Oaxaca, Oax. 68000
México
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Tel/Fax: 011-52-951-516-34-43
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ICC's Main Courtyard
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Many Americans and Europeans have discovered that the Instituto de Comunicación y Cultura (I.C.C.) offers a total immersion program, meaning you speak Spanish during the day while in class and at night while at home with your Mexican family. The program also allows ample time to hike, tour and shop in the charming city of Oaxaca.
The I.C.C. was founded in 1987 with a staff of 3 teachers and 5 students. Today the staff is 20 instructors strong —all with full teaching credentials— some 60 students in the summer, and a level of instruction of such high caliber that American universities send students to the I.C.C. for college credit.
The I.C.C. has three basic aims: (1) to provide motivating material that teaches students to function in real-life situations where Spanish is spoken, (2) to teach authentic Spanish, and (3) to offer students success and achievement in language learning.
The techniques used at the I.C.C. are based on the communicative approach to language teaching. The course teaches basic linguistic functions such as asking for information, talking about feelings, making suggestions, and apologizing. In this way students learn language that can be put to immediate use in both speaking and writing.
They also learn the appropriate language for use in different situations; such as the formal speech used to converse with people you do not know personally and informal speech used with friends. Through exercises students practice basic verbal functions and structures of the Spanish language. Teachers encourage students to give personal information and express their own ideas and feelings in class. Grammar is graded every step of the way and structures are introduced and built upon carefully. However more difficult structures may be introduced formulaically when they are needed to perform a given linguistic function correctly.
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