Course Title: Spanish 3
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2008
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 (3-7 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 (10-14 March) - Volver a Empezar (Unidad 1)
Labour Day
- Localizar una acción en el tiempo
- Perífrases
- estar + gerundio (pretérito perfecto o pretérito indefinido)
Week 3 (17-20 March) - Prohibido Prohibir (Unidad 2)
• Video Episodio 1
- Expresar prohibición
- Expresar obligación
- Expresar Impersonalidad
++++++EASTER ++++++++++++ BREAK++++++++
Week 4 (31 March-4 April) - Prohibido Prohibir (Unidad 2)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 2
- Hablar de hábitos
- Cuantificadores
Week 5 (7-11 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 (14-18 April) - Mensajes (Unidad 3)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 4
- Estrategias de comunicación
- Verbos que resumen la intención de un mensaje
- Trabalenguas
Week 7 (21-25 April) - Va y Le Dice (Unidad 4)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 5
- Hablar de géneros
- Relatar en presente
- Resumir un argumento
Week 8 (28 April-2 May) - Va y Le Dice (Unidad 4)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 6
- Contar chistes
- Pronombres de OD y de OI
Week 9 (5-9 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 (12-16 May) ¡Basta Ya!
(Unidad 5)
*Role Play
• Video Episodio 8
- Proponer soluciones y reivindicar
- Carta al director
- Ejercicio Hombres y Mujeres
Week 11 (19-23 May) - El Turista Accidental (Unidad 6)
*Role Play
*Cultural Due
• 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 (26-30 May) - El Turista Accidental (Unidad 6)
- Hablar de causas y consecuencias
- La Cortesía
Week 13 (2-6 June)
- Sensaciones
- Psicología barata
Week 14 (9-13 June)
Queen’s B’day
• Repaso
Week 15 (16-20 June)
• Oral (All the material covered in the class)
• Listening (Unidades 5-6)
• Writing (Unidades 5-6)
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Corpas, J.,Garmendia, A.and Soriano,C.(2005).Aula Internacional 3. Barcelona: Difusión. |
References
Other Resources
 English-Spanish and Spanish-English Dictionary.
Extra exercises and grammatical explanations are posted on the Blackboard almost every week and students are strongly encouraged to complete them.
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. After 2 days late, no work will be accepted.
I. Progressive Assessment (50%)
a) Two Short Quizzes (30%)
Quiz I. Week 5 (Mon 31 March) (Unidades 1-2) 15%
Quiz II. Week 9 (Mon 28 April) (Unidades 3-4) 15%
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 Week 4-11 (every Thursday)
Presentation 10%
Written Dialogue 10%
Role-Play. As 2008 is the Year of Languages and the Year of Potato you are required to participate in an 8-12 minute presentation in Spanish in groups of two on the topic of Spanish language or the Potato. 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 Exam (week 15) = 10%
2. Oral Exam (week 15) = 20%
3. Final Written 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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