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An introductory language course for students with no previous knowledge of Spanish.
This is a course designed to offer students the opportunity to acquire initial knowledge of the Spanish language as well as the appreciation of different Hispanic cultures. This paper is a half-year beginning language course that assumes no prior knowledge or experience with Spanish. The course is based on the communicative approach to language learning: All four of the basic communication skills will be developed and students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. The overall emphasis is on realistic situations that could prove useful in a practical sense to students. Since reading and writing can be practiced outside of the classroom, class time will be devoted mainly to listening and speaking activities. Course Objectives:1. Understand the main idea and most of the supporting details of spoken and written Spanish geared for university students of Spanish on current affairs and topics related to students’ daily life;2. Speak in complete sentences about familiar topics with sufficient grammatical accuracy;3. Read edited articles with an understanding of the main ideas and most of the supporting details;4. Write brief and coherent paragraphs on a familiar topic with sufficient grammatical accuracy as to be understood by a native speaker of Spanish;5. Understand significant cultural traits (i.e., lifestyles, attitudes, customs, and geography).
Availability of streams may depend on enrolment numbers.Tutorials: times to be advised.
Victoria Escaip
Victoria Escaip , Linda Robinson and Florencia Bell
Knorre, Marty. et al; Puntos de partida : an invitation to Spanish ; 8th ed; McGraw Hill, 2009.
Note: This textbook will be used for SPAN102 in the second semester. Those students planning to take that course will not need to purchase a new book.Optional Texts:• "501 Spanish Verbs" by Christopher Kendris (any edition)• Any English/Spanish Dictionary
Domestic fee $640.00
International fee $2,670.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .