SPAN 1001 El Spn I
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REV: FALL 2001
COURSE OUTLINE
Elementary Spanish I
Spanish SPAN 1001
Three (3) semester hours
Catalog description:
SPAN 1001. Elementary SpanishI. Introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish and to the culture of Spanish-speaking regions. Not open to students with two or more years of high school Spanish. Prerequisite: Designed for students with no previous knowledge of Spanish. Not open to native speakers. Laboratory work required. (3-0-3)
Aims:
General: To provide novice language learners with the basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills required for survival in a Hispanic environment. In the process, students will also be introduced to a variety of geographic, economic, literary, and sociocultural aspects of the world's diverse Hispanic peoples.
Specific: To give students basic conversational skills, including: Spanish greetings, forms of address, the present indicative of regular verbs, and of common irregular verbs; the preterite of same; how to ask for directions and purchase food or clothing; numbers up to the millions; names of essential body parts and how to express what ails them; Hispanic family nomenclature, cohesiveness and mores; object pronouns; possessives and demonstrative.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Course outline/content:
Introduction to pronunciation; accentuation; social introductions; the verb ser
Asking questions and making simple responses; telling time; the verb ir; classroom terms
Numbers to 100; expressing possession; descriptive and national adjectives; the verb tener; the
family
The verb estar for placement and status’ statements; descriptive status’ adjectives
The present indicative or -ar, -er and -ir verbs; foods
Interrogative adverbs; Hispanic customs surrounding meals; the verb gustar
The personala; irregular 1st person verbs; sports and human anatomy; Spain
Talking about the seasons and weather; verbs with stem changes; the near future
Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; possession with de; possessive adjectives and pronouns;
clothing
Higher numbers; setting dates; hace...que to express activity that has gone on for X amount of
time; the present progressive
Impersonal statements with se; the regular preterite tense; orienting oneself in town
Preterites with stem changes; direct object pronouns; banking and monetary terms
Irregular preterite verbs; hace...que for events concluded X time ago; the countryside; Mexico
Verbs that resemble gustar; contiguous direct and indirect object pronouns; negative and
affirmative adverbs and particles
Review; final exam
Methods of instruction:
Lectures, pattern drills, verbal question and answer sessions, picture interpretations in Spanish, prereading exercises, readings out loud in Spanish, followed by questions on content, timely discussions of current affairs in Spain and Latin America.
Teaching aids:
Maps, audiocassettes, CD-Roms, filmstrips, transparencies, video cassettes, current realia, computer software, and occasional handouts.
Evaluation procedures:
Written laboratory assignments 15% of grade
Bimonthly tests requiring both aural comprehension
and writing skills 50% of grade
An individual oral interview near quarter's end 10% of grade
A written final examination with an aural comprehension
component 25% of grade
Textbooks:
Dawson and Dawson. Dicho y hecho (latest edition). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Dawson and Dawson. Dicho y hecho: Beginning Spanish Workbook. New York: John Wiley
and Sons.
Supplemental materials
Audio cassettes reinforcing Dicho y hecho
Computer software reinforcing Dicho y hecho
Bibliography:
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Standards for Foreign Language Learning; preparing for the 21st Century. Yonkers: ACTFL, 1996
Freed, Barbara, ed. Foreign Language Association Research and the Classroom. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1991.
Navarro, Tomás, Tomás. Manual de pronunciación española, 22nd ed. Madrid, 1985.
Schmitt, Conrad J. Schaum's Spanish Grammar, 3rd ed. NY: McGrawHill, 1989.
Spinelli, Emily. English Grammar for Students of Spanish, 3rd ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Olivia & Hill, 1995.
Stockwell, R. P. The Sounds of English and Spanish. Chicago: U. of Ch. Pr., 1965.
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