Module: Intermediate Spanish Language Skills 6

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Intermediate Spanish Language Skills 6
Module Code	SP324 (ITS) / SPA1031 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Ana Maria Diaz Perez
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Repeat examination

Description

This module, taught entirely through Spanish, aims to develop students’ language competence and fluency in written and spoken production to an upper-intermediate level. Students will encounter a variety of multimodal activities in order to develop digital literacy and a variety of cognitive abilities like critical thinking and persuasive discourse in a variety of communicative contexts.

Learning Outcomes

1. Follow the main points of lectures, talks and reports and other forms of academic/professional presentations which are propositionally and linguistically complex. Understand the speaker’s point of view on topics that are of current interest or that relate to his/her specialised field.
2. Understand texts concerned with contemporary issues presenting a particular stance or point of view. Synthesise information from a number of resources based on their interests.
3. Demonstrate sufficient language competence to be able to give clear descriptions, express viewpoints and develop arguments without much conspicuous searching for words, using complex sentence structures to do so.
4. Show good control of formal and informal registers in different communicative situations.
5. Demonstrate an appreciation of perspectives other than his/her own worldview in intercultural encounters.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Total Workload: 0

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Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Format
The 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.

Syllabus
The 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 activities
Students 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.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Participation	Participation in activities and progress based on the completion of the weekly work required during the semester	15%	n/a
In Class Test	Audiovisual comprehension and written test	25%	n/a
Group project	Multimodal production	35%	n/a
Group presentation	Presentation and oral interaction	25%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

2014: Aula internacional 4 B2.1. Nueva edición. Libro del alumno, Difusión, 157,

Other Resources

None