Spanish II

Code:

MEIEFA017

Acronym:

E_II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Foreign language

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=135787
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Teaching English and Foreign Languages in the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education, with specialties in Spanish or French or German

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEIEFA	8	MEIEFA - Study Plan	2	-	3	21,5	81
MEPIEFA	3	MEPIEFA - Study Plan	2	-	3	21,5	81

Teaching language

Spanish

Objectives

The main objectives for this semester are:

- Analyse the learning outcomes and contents of some of the Spanish programs of 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education in Portugal.

- Review the morphosyntactic, discursive, lexical, phonetic and orthographic and pragmatic contents in some of the Spanish programs of 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education in Portugal.

- Create proposals for the teaching of some of the contents previously mentioned.

- Review basic differences between Spanish and Portuguese, especially regarding to the Spanish teacher’s speech.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will develop their communicative competence in Spanish and their critical capacity with regard to the teaching of vocabulary and grammar in Spanish as a foreign language classroom in the 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education in Portugal.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

- Analysis of the learning outcomes and contents of some of the Spanish programs of 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education in Portugal.

- Strategies to teach vocabulary and grammar in foreign language classes.

- Revision of the morphosyntactic, discursive, lexical, phonetic and orthographic and pragmatic contents in some of the Spanish programs of 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education in Portugal.

- Analisys of characteristics of the Spanish teacher’s speech.

Mandatory literature

VV.AA.; Programas de Espanhol no 3.º ciclo do ensino básico e secundário.
Herrera, F. & Sans, N. (Eds.); Enseñar gramática en el aula de español. Nuevas perspectivas y propuestas, Difusión, 2018. ISBN: 9788416943890
Herrera, F. (Ed.); Enseñar léxico en el aula de español. El poder de las palabras, Difusión, 2017. ISBN: 9788416943883
Direção-Geral da Educação ; Aprendizagens Essenciais - Ensino Básico, 2018 (http://www.dge.mec.pt/aprendizagens-essenciais-ensino-basico)
Direção-Geral da Educação; Aprendizagens Essenciais - Ensino Secundário, 2018 (http://www.dge.mec.pt/aprendizagens-essenciais-ensino-secundario)

Complementary Bibliography

Seco, Manuel, Andrés Puente, Olimpia e Ramos González, Gabino; Diccionario del español actual , Madrid: Santillana, 1999. ISBN: 978-84-294-6472-6
Clave. Diccionario de uso del español actual, Madrid: SM, 1999. ISBN: 978-84-348-6510-5
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, Madrid: Santillana, 2005. ISBN: 978-84-294-0623-8
Real Academia de la Lengua; Ortografía de la lengua española, Espasa, Madrid, 1999. ISBN: 84-239-9250-0
Seco, Manuel; Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española,, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid): Espasa Calpe, 2005. ISBN: 978-84-239-9425-0
Martínez de Sousa, J.; Ortografía y ortotipografía del español actual, Ediciones Trea, 2004. ISBN: 978-84-9704-353-3

Comments from the literature

Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA). Buscador urgente de dudas: https://www.fundeu.es/ 

Diccionario panhispánico de dudas: http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=
Foros del Centro Virtual Cervantes (Foro del hispanistas, Foro TIC, Foro del español y Foro didáctico): https://cvc.cervantes.es/foros/default.htm

Complementary bibliography will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lesson will be theoretical-practical, with an active participation of students. Students will work in pairs and individually in classroom activities related to the contents of the program.

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Teacher training
Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	45,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	45,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	31,00
Frequência das aulas	27,00
Trabalho de investigação	23,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Not mandatory class attendance

Calculation formula of final grade

Mandatory oral presentation of an article - 25%
Written Test - 75%
Student must obtain at least 6,75 points (out of 15) in the final written test. The points from the oral presentation of an opinion article will be added to the test grade. The sum of the two grades will be the final grade. Students who do not orally present the opinion article will not be allowed to do the written test.

Examinations or Special Assignments

The aforementioned assessment components.
More information will be available at the beginning of the semester.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students with special status who do not take the tests during the semester will be assessed by a final exam (written and oral) on all the contents of the course in June or in the Special Period.

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.
Students who do not pass the subject´s written test in the ordinary evaluation call, may take a «recovery written test» but it will not be possible to improve the oral presentation grade.

Observations

It is important for the students enrolled in this subject to carefully read the file denominated “Calendario y evaluación Espanhol II” that can be found at the document section, folder “Evaluación de la asignatura” in Moodle. In this file, one can find a detailed description of the tests and essays that have to be done, as well as the punctuation for each component.