UCL - Espagnol - niveau élémentaire

[ESPA1100]

[90h] 9 credits

This course is taught in the 1st & 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Isabel Baeza Varela

Language: S

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of the course students are expected to have reached an A2 level (elementary level) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Regarding skills, students should be able to :

- Understand short texts written in common everyday language relating to everyday life (personal letters, etc.) ; find specific information in everyday signs and notices in public places ; understand short, simple narrative or descriptive texts.
- Understand key information from short, simple spoken messages relating to everyday life ; understand sufficiently to react in simple and direct conversations if spoken slowly and clearly.
- Speak about himself/herself, his/her environment and living conditions ; communicate simple and current tasks requiring only short and direct exchange.
- Write short and current documents (a postcard, etc.).
- Correctly pronounce the Spanish sounds and put them in relation to their writing ; control the vocabulary (approximately 2000 words) and the grammatical contents of basic Spanish.

Main themes

- The object of this course is to develop the student¿s communicative competence in general Spanish and to sensitize him with the culture of Spanish-speaking countries.
- The communicative contexts and the subjects are related to the everyday life (leisure, travel, home, invitations, family and friends, studies, future projects, etc.).

Content and teaching methods

The course is centered on the communication and uses a method halfway between the communicative and the notion-functional one. Therefore, the elements of the code are not acquired by the study of lists of vocabulary or the structural approach of grammar exclusively. These elements are built-in in significant contexts, grouped according to functional contents (to give and ask personal data, to speak about the usual actions, to speak about the spare time and tastes, to describe a city, to suggest activities, etc), and later they are practiced with exercises requiring the development of an integral communicative competence. The didactic materials include very elaborate grammatical tables and exercises of systematization, but the typology of exercises is very heterogeneous: songs, games, role plays, real or adapted texts, advertisements, etc.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites:
To not have studied Spanish previously or not have reached an A2 level.

Assessment:
Continuous Assessment : various written tests and an oral test throughout the year, work to be returned, presence and participation.

Course material:
Español 1 : communicative method used during the course and made by the professor according to the described method and from current bibliography.

References:
Gente que lee : novel-comic for the autonomous reading. The subjects, structures, functions and vocabulary follow the most usual progression of a course of the elementary level.
Español G. Cuaderno de ejercicios : exercise book of grammar for autonomous practice. It presents a broad range of exercises for 27 subjects suitable for the elementary level. This book is accompanied by the key of the exercises and an audio support available in the ILV self-tuition center (CAA).

Training staff:
- The teacher is available in his/her hours of reception and can be contacted by e-mail.
- The course gives the student a guide of electronic addresses and materials to support the autonomous training and other didactic materials for the controlled autonomous practice.
- The teacher supports and accompanies the autonomous training in the CAA of the ILV.