General Spanish for Political and Social Science and Communications

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

• express themselves using a sufficient amount of vocabulary on a vast array of subjects related to everyday life, such as leisure and points of interest, work, travel and current events > language skill: lexis
• communicate with a sufficient amount of self-correction about familiar topics, using good grammatical control, with the general sense remaining clear > language skill: grammar
• pronounce clearly and intelligibly, even while retaining a distinguishable foreign accent > language skill: phonology
• intervene in a discussion on a familiar subject, using the language functions needed to draw the interlocutor's attention and be able to launch, pursue or conclude a simple face-to-face conversation on familiar or personal subjects > pragmatic skill: discursive competence and turn-taking
• narrate or describe with relative ease something simple and linear > pragmatic skill: discursive competence and thematic development
• link a series of short, simple and distinct elements into ongoing and coherent discourse > pragmatic skill: discursive competence, coherence and cohesion
• express themselves with a degree of ease, narrate understandably, continue speaking efficiently and without help, even with some formulation problems, pauses and hesitations > pragmatic skill: functional competence and oral self-confidence
• explain the main elements of an idea or problem, with enough accuracy to be able to express one's opinion > pragmatic skill: functional comptetence and accuracy