Spanish B1.1

Code:

LLC029

Acronym:

EB1.1

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S

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
CL	2	CL - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
LA	23	LA - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
LLC	56	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
LRI	38	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Español

Objectives

According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, at this level students should be able to:
- understand the main ideas of complex text on concrete topics.

- interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers.

- produce clear, detailed text of subjects studied during the semester and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Contents are defined from the objectives described in this document, so they are essential to allow students to reach these objectives.
Students will be able to develop tasks involving reception, production and interaction related to the objectives after understanding and practising the linguistic contents referred above. Linguist contents include grammar (past tenses, future, conditional, imperative and present subjunctive), vocabulary (related to cinema, superstitions, etc. and false friends between Spanish and Portuguese), pragmatic, discursive contents (connectors) and cultural contents (habits and traditions of Hispanic culture and linguistic resources to written and oral interaction). All of these concepts are necessary to successfully carry out the different activities planned for this level.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. Functional contents: Talking about present and past habits and daily routine, past experiences and compulsory and forbidden actions / activities. Giving advice. Describing hopes and ambitions. Referring to the future: promises and predictions. Expressing opinion. Expressing if conditional clauses.
II.Grammar: Discourse markers. Revision of past tenses: imperfecto, indefinido (simple past) and pretérito perfecto (present perfect). Discourse markers. Pretérito pluscuamperfecto (past perfect). Imperative forms. Future tense. Conditional tense. Present tense-Subjunctive mood. Article “lo”. Diacritical accent. Placement of object pronouns.
III. Vocabulary: Vocabulary related to different situations and topics arising from texts and class discussion (feelings, superstitions or cinema). False friends between Spanish and Portuguese.
IV. Cultural component: Being aware of sociocultural and intercultural knowledge and behaviour in the different Spanish- speaking countries.

Mandatory literature

GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel; Doce cuentos peregrinos, Debolsillo, 2003

Complementary Bibliography

AA. VV.; Gramática básica del estudiante de español (A1-B1), Difusión, 2005
AA. VV.; Prisma. Nivel B1, Edinumen, 2009
AA. VV.; Aula Internacional 3, Difusión, 2007
GÓMEZ TORREGO, Leonardo; Gramática didáctica del español, SM, 2000
GÓMEZ TORREGO, Leonardo; Ortografía de uso del español actual, SM, 2000
GONZÁLEZ HERMOSO, A., CUENOT, J.R. y SÁNCHEZ ALFARO, M.; GONZÁLEZ HERMOSO, A., CUENOT, J.R. y SÁNCHEZ ALFARO, M., Gramática de ELE. Normas. Recursos para la comunicación, Edelsa, 1994
MOREIRA, L., MEIRA, S. y RUIZ PÉREZ, F.; MOREIContigo.es. Espanhol 10.º ano. Formação Geral e Específica. Continuação, Porto Editora, 2013
MOREIRA, L., MEIRA, S. y RUIZ PÉREZ, F.; Contigo.es. Cuaderno de Ejercicios. Espanhol 10.º ano. Formação Geral e Específica. Continuação, Porto Editora, 2013

Teaching methods and learning activities

The main goal of this subject is that students achieve the objectives established for this level by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in other words, they have to be able to understand the main ideas of clear and in standardised-language texts (...), at professional, learning or leisure contexts; know how to interact in most of the situations which can come up during a trip to places where the target language is used; write simple and coherent texts and describe experiences, events, wishes and ambitions, as well as justify briefly their opinions or voice their plans.
To achieve this main goal, it is essential to combine theory and practice simultaneously. This will make possible to achieve the learning objectives of this subject as well as let students show their knowledge of them at the moments established to evaluation. Therefore, each practical work of the contents and the evaluation focus on various but complementary aspects, worked during the semester.
In class, all communicative activities of the language are worked (oral and written production, oral and written interaction, reading comprehension and mediation), but the production activities will be stressed because students showed more difficulties in them.
As a result, in class, homework or evaluation tests, these activities will play an important role in order to achieve: spontaneous participations of the students, without previous preparation, in conversations about personal interest topics and their specialization (abstract and cultural topics such as movies, books and music); narrations of events and descriptions of situations (presenting arguments and reasonings), or writing of long sequences with a specific purpose as informal letters and emails.
The main text types used to achieve these goals are: stories in the past, movie reviews and argumentative texts about different topics studied in class.

Software

Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (RAE): http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
Rayuela: Ejercicios lúdicos:http:/ /cvc.cervantes.es/aula/pasatiempos/pasatiempos1/
Periódico El Mundo: www.elmundo.es
Diccionario Clave: http://clave.librosvivos.net/
Diccionario bilingüe español-portugués: http://wordreference.com/es/
Periódico ABC: www.abc.es
Fonética. Los sonidos del español: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/spanish/frameset.html
Periódico El País: www.elpais.es
Radio y Televisión Española: www.rtve.es
Periódicos de América Latina: GDA (Grupo de Diarios de América): http://www.gda.com/index.php
Centro Virtual Cervantes: http://cvc.cervantes.es/
Periódico La Vanguardia: www.lavanguardia.es

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	80,00
Teste	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Calculation formula of final grade

 Lessons will be both practical and theoretical and will be based on an action-oriented approach considering users and learners of a language primarily as social agents. Students will be expected to involve in the lessons and in their own learning. Classes will be taught in Spanish. The materials for the course will mainly be taken from a support text produced by the teachers, which will be made available from the photocopy room.
The final mark will be calculated based on the following components of assessment:
- Writing: activity in class (worth 4/20; optional) + written exam (worth 16/20 or 20/20 if students do not do this optional writing task).
- Speaking: one oral exam to be done in pairs worth 20/20. To attend to this exam, students must obtain, at least, 9/20 in the written exam. To pass this subject, students must obtain 9/20 in the oral test to calculate the average mark between de written and the oral tests (50%-50%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students must read a book: "Doce cuentos peregrinos" de Gabriel García Márquez (Edición Debolsillo, 2003). The oral test will be based on comments and questions about the reading.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to FLUP regulations.

Classification improvement

Exam