Marta Perez

As a language learner myself, I believe one of the hardest parts of learning a new language is the speaking skill. Therefore, my lessons are usually very dynamic and mainly focused on conversation and communication in everyday situations. I tend to pay special attention to pronunciation, articulation and vocabulary. However, as a Spanish native speaker, I'm happy to offer my students any advice on grammar or even Spanish culture if they want to take their learning experience a bit further. My lessons are overall very flexible depending on my students' needs. I'm also very flexible in terms of topics of conversation as I always try to include topics and ideas that my students can find interesting to create a more comfortable learning environment (Most of the time, I use the first lesson to ask questions and learn about my students and their specific needs to then personalise my lessons according to their preferences). Besides, I also tend to prioritise my student's talking time in every lesson, so I try to reduce my interventions. That way, they can practice as much as they can during our lesson. Although I don't tend to be specifically fussy about homework, I do think it's important for my students to have some practice outside our lessons. Thus, I try to give them reading or audio-visual material to work on before the next session to improve their overall comprehensive skills as well as any mistakes they might make along the way to then, discuss it together in the following lesson.