Doha: The International School of London Qatar (ISL Qatar) hosted a presentation by Argentine Ambassador Rossana Surballe on Monday.
The talk was addressed to Spanish-speaking students and staff and those that study Spanish as a second language.
The school offers one of the strongest and most comprehensive mother tongue programmes among its peers, as supporting mother tongue literacy is central to its mission.
By continuing with home language literacy throughout education, subsequent language learning is strengthened and children become balanced bilinguals, able to study successfully in their country and their new country. ISL Qatar offers 13 mother tongue languages.
The ambassador motivated the students by saying that being able to speak Spanish means one is “able to communicate with 400 million people around the world”.
The young students were introduced to the university education system in Argentina.
Surballe said her country is an increasingly attractive destination for foreign students, mainly due to the academic excellence of its universities, reasonable costs of living and low tuition fees, a wide variety of Spanish as a foreign language courses and impressive cultural and tourist offerings.
She presented a video and pictures of the most impressive touristic offerings the eighth largest country in the world offers. Images included Iguazu Falls, a World Heritage Site, pre-Hispanic urban centres in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy; the Patagonia glaciers; the mountains of Cordoba; Mendoza’s vineyards and pictures of the capital city Buenos Aires.
Christopher Charleson, Headmaster, ISL Qatar, who had lived and worked in Argentina for three years at an IB school, highlighted his impressions of the beautiful landscape of Argentina, its friendly people and courses, institutions and universities worthy of students’ attention.
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