Module: Intermediate Spanish Language Skills 5

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Intermediate Spanish Language Skills 5
Module Code	SPA1030 (ITS: SP323)
Faculty	SALIS	School	Humanities & Social Sciences
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

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. Materials used in this module are mainly pitched at CEFR level B2.

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.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Seminars	22	Students are expected to actively participate in class discussion with individual contribution to whole-class and small group discussions.
Independent Study	40	Reading/watching the required materials before the session and completing any assigned activities. Students are expected to engage autonomously in activities that will foster their language acquisition (through activity completion, group work outside the classroom etc.).
Directed learning	40	Completion of prescribed homework. Participation in oral and written activities on chosen topics and related tasks.
Assignment Completion	23	Preparation and submission of assignments.
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	11560	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Ana Maria Diaz Perez	Module Teacher

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
In Class Test	Written test (Mid-semester)	40%	n/a
Group project	Multimodal production (Mid-semester)	30%	n/a
Presentation	Oral Presentation (End of semester)	30%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

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

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.

Indicative Reading List

Books:

Jaime Corpas, Agustín Garmendia, Nuria Sánchez, Carmen Soriano: 2014, Aula internacional 4 B2.1 . Nueva edición. Libro del alumno, Difusión, 157, 9788415620853

Articles:
None

Other Resources

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