Spanish B2.2

Code:

LLC032

Acronym:

EB2.2

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	23	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	107	Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-German/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-French/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage (Spanish)	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
LRI	34	Study Plan	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in History	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in German Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in English Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in Spanish Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in French Studies	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Espanhol

Objectives

The purpose of this level is to provide the student with the skills to understand the general idea of complex texts on specific and abstract topics, including the technical type whenever important for the course. The student should be able to understand texts on information, opinions and subjectivities, as well as recognize implicit elements in a message: organizing information, humor, irony, cultural references.
Students should be able to fluently and effortlessly relate to native speakers, as well as orally express their personal opinions on general and specific topics in a conversation, provide detailed information and debate a topic. In such interventions students should also be able to use native speaker resources to handle implicit and explicit information.
According to the European framework of reference for languages, students must be able to produce clear and detailed written texts on a variety of topics, as well as defend your point of view in general discussions and reflect upon the language and control their own learning process. Students should write relatively long texts, applying usual syntactic structures of the Spanish language. Therefore students should demonstrate an acceptable knowledge of textual coherence and cohesion procedures according to different types of texts: proper use of paragraphs, textual structuring, lexical and semantic elements, cultural awareness, etc.

Program

I. COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS:
Express opinion, appreciation and deeds.
Express probability.
Express desire.
Express commands, norms and instructions.
Express purpose
Express permission
Express cause and consequence


II. GRAMMAR CONTENTS:
Causal clauses, consecutive clauses and appropriate connectors.
Final clauses.
Concession clauses. Difference between indicative/ subjunctive and a variety of connectors.
Contrast between direct and reported speech.
Revision of subjunctive tenses.
Passive voice.
periphrastic forms of the verb
Prepositional verbs
Verbs of change.
Use of personal pronouns.

III. LEXICON CONTENTS:
Resources to describe an object (appliance, technological or communicative device, furniture…)
Resources to describe a service (in a hotel, in a shop…)
technical vocabulary
Ambiguous words (words with two or more meanings)
Word formation: derivation and compounding
False friends
Words used in multiple contexts and with multiple purposes (palabras paladín)
Synonyms and antonyms


IV. TEXTS:

Reading: cartoons and comic strips, opinion articles in newspapers and magazines on current topics or specialized, with word games, irony…, letters, faxes, extensive formal (requests, complaints…) or informal e-mails; public instructions (norms, prescriptions, prohibitions, restrictions…), virtual messages on popular topics. Samples of different dialects and styles will be used.
Writing: letters, extensive formal (requests, complaints…) or informal e-mails, summaries, public instructions (norms, prescriptions, prohibitions, restrictions…), virtual messages on popular topics, reviews.
Listening: formal and informal personal and transactional conversations (complaints), face to face and on the telephone; press interviews (on television or on the radio); newscasts on the radio and on television (politics, sports, current affairs…). Samples of different dialects and styles will be used.
Speaking: formal and informal personal and transactional conversations (complaints), face to face and on the telephone; public discussions on general or personal interest, public presentations on specific or public affairs.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practical and theoretical lessons; tutorial sessions.

The course seeks a balance between theory and practice, linking formal language structures to communicative purposes. It is based on production and comprehension activities as well as speaking activities miming communicative contexts which might be encountered by students in real life.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00		2013-07-17
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2013-07-17
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73	2013-07-17
	Total:	73,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must attend 75% of classes, except for cases provided for by law.

The maximum grade which can be obtained in the written exam is 14 points. Student must obtain at least 6/14 points in the written exam in order to be admitted to the oral exam. The maximum grade which can be obtained in the oral exam is also 14 points. The remaining 6 points correspond to the mandatory assignments of the subject that be stated at the beggining of the semester.

Calculation formula of final grade

Class work - 30% (6 points)
written and oral exam - 70% (14 points)

Student must obtain at least 6/14 points in the written exam in order to be admitted to the oral exam. The final grade will be obtained as follows:
Teachers will calculate the average from both written and oral exams, if the grade obtained by the student in oral exam is at least 6/14 points. In this case, the average obtained from both written and oral exams will be added to the grade obtained in the assignments, thus obtaining the final grade, assuming that the average obtained from both written and oral exams is equal to or greater than 6 points.

All information needed to complete this class will be handed in throughout the first class sessions and will be available online.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Student who obtain more than 6/14 points in the written exam must do oral exam.

Students must also read the following book:

Martín Gaite, Carmen (1998): Caperucita en Manhattan. Madrid: Ediciones Siruela

The first part of the oral exam will be based on this book.
The second part of the oral exam will address contents worked throughout the course.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

Not applicable