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NVCC COLLEGE-WIDE COURSE CONTENT SUMMARY
SPA 205-206 – SPANISH FOR HERITAGE SPEAKERS I–II (3 CR.) (3 CR.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Fosters appreciation of Hispanic cultural-linguistic heritage. Develops understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills to native or near-native level. Focuses on reading development, orthography, lexical expansion, formal grammar, facility in writing and composition, and an introduction to selected representations of literary texts. Lecture 3 hours per week.
GENERAL COURSE PURPOSE
The purpose of Spanish for Heritage Speakers I is to enable bilinguals who possess different ranges of proficiency in Spanish to maintain their language, expand the bilingual range, become familiar with the world-standard variety of Spanish, and develop literacy skills. The course provides for opportunities to use Spanish for real-world purposes in culturally authentic situations.
ENTRY LEVEL COMPETENCY
The prerequisite for SPA 205 is native or near-native fluency in listening and speaking and little or no formal education in Spanish, and permission and placement by instructor/counselor/ADC.
The prerequisite for Spanish for Heritage Speakers II is Spanish for Heritage Speakers I or placement by instructor.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
A. Listening
1. The student will become accustomed to some unfamiliar dialectal variations of basic standard Spanish.
2. The student will sustain understanding on a variety of concrete and abstract topics.
B. Speaking
1. The student will be able to converse formally and informally about concrete and abstract topics e.g., everyday situations and routine school and work requirements.
2. The student will be able to compensate for an imperfect grasp of some forms with confident use of communicative strategies, such as circumlocution.
3. The student will be able to sustain ideas using extended discourse; have sensitivity to register, to the appropriateness of certain expressions in a given context, and an ability to use cohesive devices to unify discourse.
4. The student will be able to hypothesize, support opinion, and speak about unfamiliar situations.
5. The student will be able to be understood by native speakers.
C. Reading
1. The student will understand authentic material such as newspapers, magazine articles, personal correspondence, literary texts and technical material written for the general reader.
2. The student will develop comprehension derived not only from situational and subject matter knowledge but also from increasing control of the language.
3. The student will develop top-down reading strategies to rely on real-world knowledge and prediction based on genre and organizational scheme of the text.
4. The student will develop bottom-up reading strategies to rely on actual linguistic knowledge.
Spanish for Heritage Speakers II also includes the following objectives:
The student will be able to understand parts of texts, which are conceptually abstract and linguistically complex, and/or texts which treat unfamiliar topics and situations, as well as texts which involve target-language culture.
The student will be able to comprehend the facts to make appropriate inferences. An emerging awareness of the aesthetic properties of language and of its literary styles permits comprehension of a wider variety of texts, including literary.
D. Writing
1. The student will develop mastery in the spelling and syllabication of words.
2. The student will have an accurate knowledge of the use of diacritical marks.
3. The student will be able to take dictation notes on familiar topics.
4. The student will be able to write on familiar topics, e.g., simple letters, brief synopses and paraphrases, summaries of biographical data, work and school experience.
5. The student will communicate using the vocabulary, grammar, and a style reflective of informal writing using most sentence structures.
6. The student will be able to describe and narrate in coherent paragraphs using cohesive devices.
7. The student begins to develop expository writing using more complex patterns of organization and sentence structure.
8. The student's writing, although faulty, will be generally comprehensible to natives.
MAJOR TOPICS TO BE COVERED
A. Knowledge of the twenty countries of the Hispanic world
B. Knowledge of the Hispanic communities in the United States
C. Geography
D. Fine Arts and Literature
E. History
F. Human rights and social conditions
G. Political events
H. Cross cultural comparisons
OPTIONAL TOPICS
A. Career goals and work-related themes