Academia Latinoamericana
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The Academia is a family operated Spanish language institute offering Spanish classes at all levels. The Academia has offices in Quito, Ecuador, Cusco, Peru, and Sucre, Bolivia.
In Quito, the Academia is located right downtown. It is a brand new building that has a colonial design, with an interior patio, 21 classrooms, video room with amplification equipment, library, teachers room, auditorium, solarium, cafeteria, a multipurpose indoor court (racquetball, wallyball, speed soccer and basketball field), digital connection for interactive participation between the schools in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and cafeteria.
Classes are small; never more than four students, and University native Spanish speaking teachers are used. Classes are normally 60 minutes in length. Students may enroll for 4 hours a day. Tests are used to place students into the appropriate level class, and students can move from one level to another depending on how fast they learn.
The Academia Latinoamericana enjoy an excellent reputation among professional associations of language education the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica (Sigma Delta Pi) because of the high caliber of our language programs. One of the important features of the Academia experience is that, unlike other study abroad programs which require some measure of fluency on the part of the student, students with little or no Spanish may enroll and study for as long as time permits. Our excellent testing program allows placement of students in classes at their exact level, and weekly evaluations make it possible to continue to move students through their weekly classes in such a way that they are continually challenged, but not frustrated by being slightly ahead or slightly behind their classmates.
Our teaching program has been designed under the guidelines of the Instituto Cervantes, the placement testing of the OPI (Oral Proficieny Interview), in combination with the ACTFL model of 9 levels of proficiency: absolute beginner to superior. Highly structured grammar lessons, interactive activities, conversation and written exercises. Specific homework assignments are given daily.
There is email-internet service at the school for a reasonably price ($1 dollar per hour). The Academia provides laundry, mail, and exchange services.
- Address: Calle Noruega 158 y 6 de Diciembre, Quito, Ecuador
- Mailing address: P.O. Box 17-17-593
- Telephone: +(593 2) 2242 807 / 2452 824
- Fax: +(593 2) 2455 822 / 2231 102
- Emergency phone: (593 9) 9 820 238
- E-mail: info@latinoschools.com
- Web Site: http://www.latinoschools.com
