Course Title: Spanish 2

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C2162

Course Title: Spanish 2

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 108.0

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.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
LANG5494	City Campus	TAFE	365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng	Face-to-Face	Term2 2010

Course Contact: Dr. Glenda Meja

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 3732

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

Course Description

This certificate is completed over one semester. 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.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Certificate I in Language (Spanish)/108 hours or equivalent

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

LOTE 682 Spanish 2

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course it is expected that students will be able to:
1. Participate in a casual conversation on a familiar topic including past, present and future events 
2. Conduct routine spoken transactions
3. Give simple directions, instructions or explanations
4. Identify specific information in short oral texts 
5. Write a short recount which includes a description 
6. Identify specific information in a short written text 

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.