Learning and empathy in Spanish foreign language students, ELE, activities to create emotional bonds through virtuality

Abstract

In the era of communications both information and viruses can travel from one point on the planet to another. In the same way, something as difficult to define as solidarity between all peoples has been able to travel from one end of the continent to the other, and unite unknown people but united in their fight against the disease, thus overcoming the language barrier or cultural distances. The methodology consisted of developing a series of steps and activities where elements of the ELE focused on the fashionable theme of the Covid moment were introduced. The synergies of Spanish language translation students from a Russian university in the Urals were taken advantage of, who wanted to join in transmitting their empathy and solidarity with the numerous victims of the Coronavirus in Spanish hospitals, through letters prepared in Spanish where they demonstrated their acquisition of the language they studied.