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SPAN 201 - Spanish, Second-Year |
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Associated Term:
Spring 2016
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Learn and comprehend the topics and themes of the course through the target language (Spanish) itself. 2. Recognize cues in the language and extrapolate meaning from them and the context in which they are encountered, rather than relying on looking up words in a bilingual dictionary or requesting a translation. 3. Practice the interrelatedness of culture and language. 4. Apply learning strategies, goals, and skills of organization appropriate to second language acquisition. 5. Hear and read authentic intermediate levels of the language with understanding. 6. Speak and write the language so that it is intelligible to a sympathetic native speaker unaccustomed to dealing with non-Spanish speakers. 7. Demonstrate an increased knowledge of Spanish-speaking cultures. 8. Demonstrate through both oral and written expression in Spanish the ability to: a. Express, summarize and explain ideas based on content of appropriate level texts (written, video, audio.), b. Translate communications using the vocabulary and content of this three-term course sequence from English into Spanish and vice-versa, c. Explore and apply the notion of “false cognates”, d. Using simple and progressive indicative verb forms, narrate in the present and past: actions, routine, events, ideas, time, weather, and personal relationships, e. Differentiate between completed past actions and habitual or ongoing past event and conditions, f. Avoid redundancy in sentence structure, g. Express likes and dislikes, h. Form and employ articles, adjectives, possessives, demonstratives and pronouns, i. Differentiate among and appropriately use verbs of description of generality, of the specific and situational, of conditions and of number, j. Practice error management by utilizing: a. Spanish class techniques and Learning Streategies in oral situations, . Arden Woods CorrectAid in written expression. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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