Module manager: Antonio Martinez-Arboleda
Email: A.Martinez-Arboleda@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2017/18
Grade A or B in A-level Spanish (B1)
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module is approved as a skills discovery module
SPPO1010 is an integrated Spanish language skills module, designed to continue Spanish language learning after A-level. The module places particular emphasis on the development and application of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) in a variety of relevant communicative contexts.
The key objectives are that on completing the module students will:
1. Understand the core grammatical functions in Spanish and analyse syntactically complex sentences;
2. Understand the main points of accessible written journalistic, academic and literary texts in Spanish;
3. Understand the main points of clear spoken Spanish on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, university, leisure, etc;
4. Produce different types of “clear and detailed” texts in Spanish in a variety of contexts, including adverts, letters, blog entries and short narrative pieces, in a clear and purposeful manner with a level of accuracy that allows successful communication with native speakers;
5. Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for plans and opinions in Spanish, including their views on current affairs, cultural production and their own learning experience;
6. Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes communication with sympathetic native speakers quite possible without significant strain for either party;
Students will gain knowledge of Spanish Grammar at the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and will acquire a level of discursive, lexical and functional competence which will allow them to communicate in professional situations both in writing and orally.
This is an integrated language skills module, designed to enhance and consolidate inherited structures, and to provide a firm foundation for Spanish learning in a University context. The module makes use of a combination of textbook materials and bespoke language learning activities.
Students will have 3 contact hours a week: 1 x 1 hour grammar lecture in a large group, and 1 x 2 hour language class which will be taught in a small group and will cover all the language skills, including oral practice. I-n-class teaching is supported with online exercises and regular homework.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language Class | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Lecture | 20 | 1 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 140 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 60 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
- Working on autonomous learning portfolio (50 hours)
- Reading and preparing texts for the lectures and language classes (30 hours)
- Undertaking exercises and other activities in preparation for class (30 hours)
- Revising/preparing for exams (30 hours)
- During the course of all lectures and language classes;
- In relation to portfolio work, in office hours of relevant tutor throughout the academic year;
- Individual performance in oral activities within language classes);
- Individual performance in Semester 1 test.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Autonomous learning portfolio - 1 instalment per semester | 30 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 30 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 1.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 15 |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 3.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 35 |
| Practical Exam / OSCE | 0.0 Hrs 15 Mins | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 70 | |
The resit for any written component of this module, will take the form of a 2 hr closed exam. The resit for the oral component will comprise an oral examination conducted on campus or via skype
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 26/04/2017
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