Course Title: Spanish 3

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2009

Course Code: LANG5495

Course Title: Spanish 3

School: 365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Campus: City Campus

Program: C3197 - Certificate III in Language (Spanish)

Course Contact : Dr. Glenda Meja

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 3732

Course Contact Email:glenda.mejia@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 144

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Certificate II in Language (Spanish)/216 hours or equivalent

Course Description

This certificate is completed in one year Through closed and then open-ended learning activities students establish a basis for development of communicative skills in the spoken and written language, emphasizing the former, and practical knowledge of the culture, in a wider range of personal and social situations and contexts. Student-centred drilling, practical and communicative activities and tasks encourage learners to be responsible for their own learning, to be creative and critical in their application of knowledge of the language in order to communicate with people of a different cultural tradition.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

LOTE 331 Spanish 3


Learning Outcomes


Upon completion of this course it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Provied information and advice
2. Participate in a casual conversation with customers or colleagues
3. Negotiate a problematic exchange
4. Demonstrate understanding of spoken information, explanations and instructions
5. Write routine workplace instructions
6. Complete standard forms and routine workplace documents
7. Demonstrate understanding of a limited range of workplace texts



Details of Learning Activities

Classes are conducted in Spanish and in a tutorial face-to-face format. Grammar and vocabulary are taught through the use of communicative methods such as guided or improvised conversations and hypothetical situations. New grammar is presented regularly through model dialogues, videos and supplementary material. Students practice structure and expression through spoken and written exercises. Cultural understanding is also introduced to further enhance the ideas of language and behaviour and their interrelationship as expressed in the aims of the course.
We will be doing many pair and group activities in which you are expected to participate actively and to use only Spanish. Therefore, regular class attendance is essential for successful completion of the course.

Please note that class attendance is crucial both for your success in mastering the Spanish language. There will be no time to go back over a class because someone missed it. You will be required to catch up at home yourself. Please try to attend all classes and please arrive on time!


Teaching Schedule

TENTATIVE CALENDAR OF CLASSES
Week 1 (2-6 March) - Volver a Empezar ((Unidad 1)
• Introducción
- hablar de hábitos
- relatar experiencias pasadas: p.perfecto/p.indefinido/p.imperfecto
- hablar del inico y duración de una acción

Week 2 (9-143March) - Volver a Empezar (Unidad 1)
Labour Day
- Localizar una acción en el tiempo
- Perífrases
- estar + gerundio (pretérito perfecto o pretérito indefinido)

Week 3 (16-19 March) - Prohibido Prohibir (Unidad 2)
• Video Episodio 1
- Expresar prohibición
- Expresar obligación
- Expresar Impersonalidad

Week 4 (23-27 March) - Prohibido Prohibir (Unidad 2)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 2
- Hablar de hábitos
- Cuantificadores

Week 5 (30 March-3 April) Mensajes (Unidad 3)
*Quiz I (Unidades 1-2)
*Role Play

• Video Episodio 3
- Al teléfono
- Tomar y dejar recados por teléfono
- Estrategias de comunicación
- Transmitir mensajes de otros

Week 6 (6-9 April) - Mensajes (Unidad 3)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 4
- Estrategias de comunicación
- Verbos que resumen la intención de un mensaje
- Trabalenguas

++++++EASTER ++++++++++++ BREAK++++++++

Week 7 (20-24 April) - Va y Le Dice (Unidad 4)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 5
- Hablar de géneros
- Relatar en presente
- Resumir un argumento

Week 8 (27 April-1 May) - Va y Le Dice (Unidad 4)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 6
- Contar chistes
- Pronombres de OD y de OI

Week 9 (4-8 May) - ¡Basta Ya! (Unidad 5)
*Quiz II (Unidades 3-4)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 7
- Presente de Subjuntivo
- Expresar deseos y reclamaciones y necesidad
- Valorar situaciones y hechos
- Cuando + Subjuntivo

Week 10 (11-15 May) ¡Basta Ya!
(Unidad 5)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 8
- Proponer soluciones y reivindicar
- Carta al director
- Ejercicio Hombres y Mujeres

Week 11 (18-22 May) - El Turista Accidental (Unidad 6)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 9
- Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
- Referencias y relaciones temporales en el pasado
- Combinar los tiempos del pasado en un relato
- Recursos para contar anécdotas

Week 12 (25-29 May) - El Turista Accidental (Unidad 6)
- Hablar de causas y consecuencias
- La Cortesía

Week 13 (1-5 June)
- Sensaciones
- Psicología barata

Week 14 (8-12 June)
Queen’s B’day
• Repaso

Week 15 (15-19June)
Oral (All the material covered in the class)
Listening/Writing (Unidades 5-6)


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

Corpas, J.,Garmendia, A.and Soriano,C.(2005).Aula Internacional 3. Barcelona: Difusión.


References

RECOMMEND BOOKS  (You can find them in RMIT library)
● Bregstein, Barbara (2005). Easy Spanish step-by-step: mastering high-frequency grammar for Spanish proficiency--fast!. Chicago: McGraw-Hill.

● Batchelor, Ronald Ernest (2006). A student grammar of Spanish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

● Rojas, Jorge Nelson (2003). Gramática esencial: grammar reference and review. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

● Zollo, Mike (2005). Interactive Spanish grammar made easy. New York: McGraw-Hill


Other Resources

RECOMMEND MATERIAL  (You can buy them in RMIT bookshop)
● VerbWheel

● Spanish Verbs & Grammar


Overview of Assessment

Language skills will be assessed via written exams or assignments, oral/speaking and aural/listening exams, as well as end-of-semester oral, aural and writing exams.


Assessment Tasks

Students are expected to complete all of the major assessments. If absent from an in-class assessment task, students will not be permitted to complete such tasks at a later date without legitimate reason, such as submission of a medical certificate. In such circumstances, re-sit of the task is to be completed at the next scheduled assessment date. Students are required to submit all assessment tasks in the class and keep copies of all works submitted. Work submitted late will be penalised at the rate of 5 per cent of the pertinent mark per day. No work will be accepted two or more days after the scheduled due date.


I. Progressive Assessment (50%)
Assessment Date Percentage
a) Two Short Quizzes (30%) Quiz I. Week 5 (Tues 31 March) (Unidades 1-2 -15%) / Quiz II. Week 9 (Tues 5 May) (Unidades 3-4 - 15%)
b) Role Play Week 4-12
Presentation 10%
Written Dialogue 10%

a) The Short Quizzes will consist of short answer questions, short written paragraphs and a listening comprehension passage with true/false short-answers.
b) Role-Play. As 2009 is the Year of Human Right Learning you are required to participate in an 8-12 minute presentation in Spanish in groups of two on the topic of Human Rights of any Spanish-speaking country of your choice. The presentation will take place in front of the class, and must be interactive; you need to involve the rest of the class. Students are not allowed to read the presentation. Each student will be graded individually and each student will have 4-6 minutes to present it. The topic will be allocated in class and the final presentation will take place in front of the class. Each student will have 4-6 minutes to present it. Students are not allowed to read the presentation. You also need to provide your dialogue written in Spanish and must be typed and double spaced. Each student will be graded individually on their own personal performance (pronunciation, grammar) while the written dialogue will be marked as a group.

II. Final Exams (50%)
1. Listening and Written Exam (week 15) = 30%
2. Oral Exam (week 15) = 20%


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Oral tasks are graded according to the following six criteria, each given equal weight.
1. grammatical accuracy
2. adequacy of vocabulary for purpose
3. intelligibility
4. fluency
5. relevance and adequacy of content
6. interactive skills

Written tasks are graded according to the following five criteria, each given equal weight.
1. relevance and adequacy of content
2. organisation
3. cohesion
4. adequacy of vocabulary for purpose
5. grammatical accuracy

COURSE ASSESSMENT GRADING
High Distinction 80- 100 HD
Distinction 70-79 DI
Credit 60-69 CR
Pass 50-59 PA
Fail NN 0-49% NN
Fail DNS Did not complete either or both of the major components of assessment (i.e. project and class tasks)

PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism may occur in oral or written presentations. It is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person, without appropriate referencing, as though it is one’s own. Plagiarism is not acceptable. The use of another person’s work or ideas must be acknowledged. All cases of suspected plagiarism in this course will be referred to the Course Coordinator who will decide on the action to be taken. Plagiarism may result in charges of academic misconduct, which carry a range of penalties including cancellation of results and exclusion from your course.

GRIEVANCES PROCEDURES
Any student, who has a grievance in relation to this course, must first discuss the situation with their lecturer and then, if the grievance cannot be resolved at this level, the student should pursue the matter with the program co-ordinator, Dr. Glenda Mejía

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