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Introduction to Spanish
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DESCRIPTION
This is a one quarter, exploratory course. It helps students to assess their
potential for the study of languages by introducing them to many of the initial
learning experiences of the study of any language. Since it has been shown in
studies of such course offerings that a similar approach should be presented in
both an introductory and the regular courses it precedes, the course is both
academically oriented and communicatively based. Students who take this class
the year before they take the regular Spanish I class are more at ease and
confident when they enter the first year class.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. The student will spell basic words using the fundamentals of the Spanish
phonetic system.
2. The student will use introductions and salutations in both a formal and
informal context.
3. The student will tell time in Spanish and identify parts of the day.
4. The student will state the date, year, weather, and seasons.
5. The student will write, recognize, and say numbers in Spanish, spelling them
properly.
6. The student will produce basic verb conjugations and recognize them in
context.
7. The student will demonstrate how gender affects the Spanish language and will
manage it.
8. The student will express the fundamental aspects of the origins of the
language
9. The student will identify the basic body parts in Spanish.
10. The student will ask simple questions in Spanish.
11. The student will give basic directions to people in Spanish.
12. The student will describe how s/he feels in Spanish.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Students will keep a written notebook of all class activities and exercises.
2. Students will write short conversations in the target language.
3. Students will write a translation of a short .article from idiomatic Spanish
into idiomatic English.
4. Student will write a set of semi-complex directions in the target language
after a study of the names of the body parts.
MULTICULTURE ACTIVITIES
1. Students will study the mixing of language and culture through history.
2. Students will examine how language reflects culture.
3. Students will study the importance of being multi-culturally literate as well
as multi-linguistically capable in an ever shrinking world.
