Teaching and Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in Africa

Abstract

The Spanish language is the second most studied language in the world. It is spoken for more than 570 million people and more than 40 Spanish speaking countries. It is one of the official languages in the European Union. Although, Equatorial Guinea is the only one Spanish speaking country in Africa, the Spanish speakers can be found all over the world.  There are many people that have studied in Cuba from all over Africa since the 80s. Here in Zimbabwe, many professionals have developed their studies in any moment of their lives in Cuba. Some of them since the secondary school, others have gone there to do undergraduate studies, and postgraduate studies. Bindura University of Science Education is opened to the Spanish as a foreign language course. In view of the future development of this branch and the interest of many Spanish as foreign language speakers in Zimbabwe, this research proposes a set of courses to study Spanish as a foreign language and also to teach Spanish as a foreign language.