Module manager: Ana Sevilla-Merino
Email: A.Sevilla-Merino@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module enables absolute beginner students to develop their language skills up to A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). Language Learning in this module is student-centred and task-based. The classroom is conceived as a social space for communication. Listening, reading, writing, speaking, interaction and mediation tasks will be set. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
To develop their language skills and competence up to CEFRL A1 level/equivalent.
Teaching is divided into a series of units, developing various important skills, such as the ability to work in a team, to a deadline, and the ability to assimilate and organize language material and present it in a given register, style and context.
Students should also develop an awareness of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
LO1. Understand and familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases with a specific communicative purpose in written and oral contexts.
LO2. Introduce themselves and others and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where they live, people they know and things they have in written and oral contexts.
LO3. Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help in written and oral contexts.
Skills Learning Outcomes::
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
SO4. To communicate and understand basic information in Spanish about themselves in a variety of formats, written and oral, in a visually engaging way and clearly and concisely.
SO5. The ability to work independently and to identify strengths and areas of excellence and improvement in their own learning
SO6. The ability to consider options, use and apply your judgement, to communicate in another language
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language Class | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Private study hours | 160 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 40 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Weekly homework and tutor feedback both written and orally.
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Practical Exam / OSCE | 0.0 Hrs 10 Mins | 40 |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2.0 Hrs 0 Mins | 60 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 100 | |
Practical Oral Exam arranged by the module leader, not centrally timetabled. Resit for the oral component will take the form of an online oral exam arranged by the module leader.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 29/04/2025
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