Spa102

Spanish 102 Syllabus

Profesora: Dr. Margarita E. Hodge
Oficina: Room 262
Teléfono: 845-6242 or 6241

Humanities & Social SciencesDivision: http://www.nvcc.edu/alexandria/humanities/

Libro de Texto: Destinos , VanPatten, Marks, Teschner (Alternate Edition)
McGraw-Hill
Cuaderno: Destinos, Workbook II - Lessons 12- 26 (Alternate Edition)

Recommended: University of Chicago Spanish/English Dictionary, or equivalent

Classroom/Lab:

clean/good quality audiotapes for Destinos workbook (90 minutes)
clean/good quality audiotapes for The Learnables II (60 minutes)

Materials:
3 x 5 cards
floppy disk (Maxell brand with plastic case)
Highlighter and Red pen
Loose leaf notebook
Plastic Inserts for 8 ½ x 11 handouts

Course Description:

Beginning Spanish II introduces understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills and emphasizes basic Spanish sentence structure. Lecture 5 hours per week. This course is recommended for the student who has had Elementary Spanish 101 or comparable instruction in Spanish. Stress is placed on the developing proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. Class activities center around a video-based course in which the student continues to develop skills for understanding spoken and written authentic texts. Classroom time is devoted primarily to developing speaking. The student continues to develop writing at the paragraph level using correct sentence structure. The class will be conducted mostly in Spanish.

Foreign Language Teaching Method:

The Natural Approach is an inductive method of language teaching, developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell, that has among its hypotheses that language is acquired in stages, that comprehension precedes production, and that language is best learned in a low anxiety atmosphere.

Course Objectives

By the end of SPA 102, you will be expected to demonstrate the following:

SPEAKING Using essentially correct pronunciation, ask questions and make statements involving learned material. Your vocabulary will center on areas such as basic objects, places and most common kinship terms. You should be able to be understood by sympathetic native speakers.

LISTENING Understand short and some sentence length speech, particularly where context strongly supports understanding and speech is clearly audible. Comprehend words and phrases from simple questions statements, high-frequency commands and courtesy formulae. READING Having sufficient control of the writing system to interpret written language in areas of practical need, read within the limits of vocabulary learned. Read authentic texts as native speakers read them. WRITING Write at the paragraph level with the correct usage of gender of nouns and adjectives, the use of direct object and indirect object pronouns, the present, future, and past tenses of regular and irregular verbs. Write, with some errors, names numbers, dates, nationalities, and other simple biographical information, as well as short phrases and simple lists. Evaluation:Course grades will be based upon:

Attendance/participation/homework preparation         25%
Grammar quizzes                                                            25%
Language Lab Workbook/Listening Tests                   10%
Mid-term and Final Oral Proficiency Interviews          30%
Notebook and Writing Portfolio                                     10%

Laboratory:

Auditory Practice:

Students are required to listen to audiotapes, either in the laboratory or on their own home players. In order to complete the audio portions in the Destinos workbook, several methods can be of help:

Bring a quality, sealed, blank audiotape to the Learning Resource Center, Rm. 332 and request that the appropriate lesson be copied. Students can find request forms right outside of Rm. 332, drop off their request with their audiotapes, then pick up their duplicated audiotapes inside of Rm. 332.

Audiotapes (Lessons 12-26) are also available for purchase in the bookstore. You need to purchase Book I Set.

There are audiocasette tapes that can also be borrowed to play on a tape player in Rm. 332. To borrow audiotapes, show a NVCC ID card and request the audiotapes that you wish to listen to in the designated booths.

Video Viewing:

Students need to view the accompanying video for each episode/chapter. Ideally each video should be viewed three times. There are several ways of completing this video viewing:

The videos will often, but not always be viewed during class time.

The Extended Learning Institute (ELI) airs Destinos videos which students can view on different cable networks that carry the NVCC ELI broadcasts. Check for video schedules on your cable network in the Schedule of Classes.

ELI Spanish Websites http://eli.nvcc.edu/spanish.htm

Spanish 102 Broadcasts:

Cable network____________ Day _______________ Time________________

Students may check videos out from the library for an hour (for use within the library only). There are VCR viewing stations on the first floor. Students will need their NVCC Student I.D. Card in order to check the videos out. Videos can be also be checked out for a week or more, but there are very few copies. (Also check your local public library, e.g., Arlington County's Quincy Library.)

Students can make arrangements with the instructor to view video before or after class in the classroom.

Reading and Foreign Language Lab: The Spanish classes will have access to:

Foreign Language Computer Area --unsupervised access in the during students' free time Students may get help with computer-assisted language instruction in the computer lab located in Rm. 332. The lessons are designed to help tutor the students in vocabulary and grammar. Students are required to receive training with the instructor and may access computers in the Foreign Language Computer Area with:

NVCC (YELLOW) ID Card, and

PERSONAL ID CARD, E.G., VA DRIVER'S LISCENCE.

Internet
Destinos Software
Spanish Ace - Verb Practice
Spanish Now - Reading and Listening Practice
MS Word -- (Spanish Spellcheck & Thesaurus pending)
Éxito - Vocabulary, Grammar & Functional Situations
Spanish Triple Play Plus
Hola Español
Rosetta Stone
Carmen

Attendance:

It is not possible to succeed in this course without regular class attendance. Only one week of unexcused absences is permitted.

If you find it necessary to miss a class session due to circumstances beyond your control, it is your responsibility to complete all assignments you miss by the time you return to class. Late arrival may be counted as a partial absence, at the discretion of the professor. Make-up work can be arranged after the student and the professor have mutually agreed on an assignment.

Withdrawal and Audit:

Withdrawal without grade penalty, or change from credit to audit must be completed at the Office of Admissions and Records. The student is held responsible for this change in academic status. A student who does not complete the course, but who fails to withdraw officially, will have all uncompleted work averaged as F.

Special Needs and Accommodations:

Please address with the instructor any special problems or needs at the beginning of the semester. If you are seeking accommodations based on a disability, you should provide a disability data sheet, which can be obtained from the counselor for special needs, who is located in Room 148 of the Bisdorf Building, telephone number 845-6301.

Good Language Learners 1. Good language learners are willing and accurate guessers. They use all the clues which the setting offers and are thus able to narrows down what the meaning and intent of the communication might be.

2. Successful language learners have strong motivation to communicate. They will do many things to communicate: paraphrase, use gestures, circumlocute, etc.

3. Good language students are often not inhibited. They are willing to take a chance and make mistakes in order to learn to communicate.

Good language learners are prepared to attend to from and pattern. They are constantly looking for patterns in the language they constantly analyze and categorize the linguistic material.
Good language learners monitor.

Classroom Policies

The professor assumes that students:

take responsibility for their own learning

are serious about and want to learn

will not miss more than one week of unexcused absences

will come prepared to class with appropriate materials needed, e.g., pencil, books

will come prepared for the lesson's assignment

will make-up any missed tests

will keep notes in a notebook on class lectures

will manage time according to personal needs to provide for 7 - 10 study hours per week

will make up tardies or absences with extra credit work
will make use of all learning resources, e.g., library, tutorial services, Learning Resources Center, computer lab to receive help with study aids

will attempt to join a study group to learn and review concepts

will confer often with the professor to gauge on-going progress

will become aware of his/her learning style and make necessary adaptation to accommodate and enhance foreign language learning skills

will focus at all times on developing foreign language skills for communication regardless of foreign language aptitude/ability.

will focus on developing multi-cultural sensitivity in a multi-cultural society and world.

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