(Trends Wide Español) — Elizabeth Coti is a teacher who teaches Spanish to her students with songs like “Ella baila sola” by Peso Pluma y Eslabón Armado and “Titi me pregunta” by Bad Bunny.
Born in Texas, but from a Guatemalan family, Elizabeth Coti is a Spanish teacher in Liberty City, Texas, and instead of teaching her classes in a traditional way, she teaches Spanish in a peculiar way: with songs that enter the top 50 on Spotify. .
Teacher Coti tells Trends Wide en Español that she has used songs by Bad Bunny, Selena, Celia Cruz, Shakira and different Spanish-speaking artists to teach Spanish. In addition, she recognizes that she not only wants her students to learn about Latino culture, but to love it, just as she does.
That is why Elizabeth Coti has opted for new methods that are more entertaining for her students. Among the activities is not only analyzing song lyrics, but also making tortillas, since they organize a meal every year where Coti brings flour and fresh cheese for students to try Latin gastronomy.
In the town where Elizabeth Coti is a teacher, there is not a large Latino population. In addition, it is relatively small, since according to the 2010 census there were barely 3,000 inhabitants and projections indicate that today it would have 9,000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau.
Elizabeth Coti already has more than 100,000 followers on her TikTok account @profecoti, where she uploads fragments of her Spanish classes, including the video of her class singing “Ella baila sola” by Featherweight, which has more than 10 million views .
@profecoti un x100to sang by my class. What song do you want to hear next? #grupofrontera #badbunny #spanishclass
♬ a x100to – Grupo Frontera & Bad Bunny
With this method, Coti wants students to learn and have fun at the same time, because he wants them not only to have an interest in the language, but also in music, food and people. Likewise, the teacher Coti assures Trends Wide en Español that with this type of activity “it is possible to be happy at school.”
With information from Leila Sofía Medina
