
Research Interest
Regarding the Spanish language: Normative grammar of Spanish, especially the orthographic reforms of the Royal Spanish Academy in the last 20 years.
Regarding didactics: the use of new technologies in the teaching of foreign languages, the use of grammar articles in Spanish by Slavic speakers.
For more than 15 years, Edyta Denst-Garcia has been working as a teacher of Spanish in different countries. In 2000, after graduating from Spanish philology at the University of Warsaw (Poland), she entered the Complutense University of Madrid and received a master’s degree in training teachers of Spanish as a foreign language (2002), and during this period she studied grammatical aspects of the Andalusian dialect. Two years later, at the same university, she began postgraduate studies. In 2006, she received Advanced Studies in Philology, defending a dissertation on the topic “Use of the Grammar Article in Spanish for Speakers of Slavic Languages”.
In 2008, she began working at the Spanish Cervantes Institute in Manila, teaching lessons to university students and adults. From 2014 to 2019 she worked at the National Eurasian University named after L.Gumilov in Nur-Sultan. During the entire period of work, in addition to teaching Spanish at all levels, she taught Spanish teachers in the areas of regulatory changes in Spanish and new technologies in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Moreover, she is an examiner at the official DELE exams in Spanish, as well as the author of many scientific articles and didactic materials. In Nur-Sultan, Edyta Denst-Garcia was responsible for the Center of the Spanish Language of Ruy González de Clavijo which hosted various events for teachers and students. Among those worth mentioning are the I and II Congress of Spanish Teachers in Central Asia in 2015 and 2017.
BOOK:
Edyta Denst-García: «Paradigma pronominal y verbal de la segunda persona en el uso hispánico», opening book of the collection Cuadernos de la Academina Filipina de la Lengua Española, Manila, 2011, ISBN: 978-971-011-245-6
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT SPANISH LANGUAGE AND DIDACTIC of Foring languages:
Edyta Denst-García: «Использование новых технологии на занятиях иностранного языка» in the electronic journal of the international scientific-practical conference “The 25th Anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, KAZGUU, Astana, December 2016, ISBN 978-601-7538-35-4
Khalida Nurseitova, Asel Kaliyeva, Edyta Denst-García and Raisa Kusainova «Impact of Language of Instruction on Progress in Kazakhstan» in the collection of the international conference Annual International conference on Cognitive-Social and Behavioral Science, Brno, Czech Republic, January 2017, е- ISBN 2357-1330
Edyta Denst-García: «Últimos cambios en las normas académicas de la ortografía y su repercusión en el aula ELE» in the book: Competencias y estrategias docentes en el contexto de Asia-Pacífico, Selected articles from the II CONGRESS OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN ASIA-PACIFIC (CE/LEAP) 2012, ISBN: 978-971-92207-4-9
Edyta Denst-García: «Problemática del alumno filipino en el primer encuentro con el español» In the book: El currículo de E/LE en Asia-Pacífico, Selected articles from the I CONGRESS OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN ASIA-PACIFIC (CE/LEAP) 2010, ISBN: 978-971-92207-3-2
DIDACTIC MATERIALS PUBLICATIONS:
Edyta Denst-García and Saule Beysembayeva: Нелётная погода» работа с песней Владимира Высоцкого «Москва – Одесса» in the Magazine Publikacje edukacyjne www.publikacje.edu.pl March, 2018; ISSN: 1730-850X
Edyta Denst-García: «Profesiones – ejercicios léxicos para nivel A1» in the Magazine Publikacje edukacyjne www.publikacje.edu.pl January, 2018; ISSN: 1730-850X
Edyta Denst-García: «Smacznego – słownictwo związane z jedzeniem, ćwiczenia dlapoziomu A1 do nauki języka polskiego jako obcego» in the Magazine Publikacje edukacyjne www.publikacje.edu.pl March, 2016; ISSN: 1730-850X
Edyta Denst-García: «Pronombres de complemento indirecto-material teórico y práctico para el nivel A.2.» in the Magazine Publikacje edukacyjne www.publikacje.edu.pl March, 2016; ISSN: 1730-850X
Edyta Denst-García: “Propuestas didáctica –Resistiré de José Mota” in Yo te diré….. Digital Magazine of the Education Section of the Embassy of Spain in Manila, 2012 NIPO: 030-13-005-3;
SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish I