WEB 2.0, COMUNICACIóN Y MATERIAL DIDáCTICO DIGITAL PARA EL APRENDIZAJE DEL ESPA？OL: EL AULA VIRTUAL DE ESPA？OL DEL INSTITUTO CERVANTES Y SU ACTUALIZACIóN

the information and communication technologies irrupted with the social web or web 2.0 in the educational branch, when we were still thinking about the effective way to integrate the ict in the classroom, and developing the models of blended-learning and e-learning for foreign languages. the instituto cervantes has conceived and design the aula virtual de espa？ol as a communication environment in which the student has access to the spanish courses and the teachers to the online tutor course. in this article, we review the social web paradigm, to justify the evolution from the ave to the social ave. we propose five stages to use the e-resources in the classroom promoting the student’s autonomy and we describe the e-learning experience teaching future tutors of the ave following the socioconstructivism paradigm.