Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module, taught entirely through Spanish, aims to develop students’ language competence and fluency in written and spoken production, as well as collaborative skills online at an upper-intermediate level. Students will be instructed with a variety of multimodal activities in order to develop cognitive abilities such as critical thinking and creativity. For example, extracting and analysing relevant information from various resources. Students will moreover be practising a range of language skills that they may apply in their professional life. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Follow the main points in professional presentations and understand standard spoken language, live or broadcast, on both familiar and unfamiliar topics encountered in personal, social or vocational contexts. 2. Scan through several sources (articles, reports, websites and visually organised information, etc.), in his/her own field of interest and identify the relevance and usefulness of a particular piece of information. 3. Interpret and present pertinent information from diagrams and visually organised data in his/her fields of interest, demonstrating a high degree of grammatical control and a broad lexicon. 4. Use appropriate language to justify proposals, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various options while playing a supportive role in order to accomplish shared tasks. 5. Collaborate on an online group project using effective communication strategies in order to clarify misunderstandings and misinterpretations that are often encountered in such tasks. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
FormatThe course is conducted through Spanish. Timetabled sessions are interactive and learner-centred. Students are expected to attend and contribute to all sessions. They are also expected to engage in language learning activities on a regular basis.SyllabusThe syllabus focuses on increasing the language fluency and accuracy as well as covering a variety of cultural aspects through a range of tasks, class activities and projects.Class activitiesStudents will be asked to work in pairs/groups and complete a variety of language assignments/tasks. These can include but are not limited to: role-plays, interviews, mini-dialogues, language and cultural quizzes, cloze-tests, grammar exercises, written and audiovisual comprehension exercises and presentations based on short specific projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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