Course description

Course lay-out

verbal skills: the students have to prepare the lectures by reading short example dialogues and learn the associated grammar and vocabulary. During the lecture the students will work in groups of two and engage in short conversations about daily living. Furthermore attention is paid to language usage (vocabulary, grammar and communicative & interation strategies).

 

listening skills: the student listens to texts and conversations about topics which are closely related to the Spanish language & culture and complete some assingments about these listening exercises.

 

Educational goals

At the end of this course the student has knowledge of and insights into:

• understanding easy spoken Spanish
• to express himself verbally in correct Spanish about topics of daily living

 

Involved departments

• OTLA (Spanish)

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

I participated in this course, because I want to learn something about the second world language. The lectures were given two times a week and were two hours in length. Our Spanish lecturer was very enthusiastic. However the workload of the course was very high; the same amount of information is given in three years at the high school, we had to do it in 16 weeks.

 

Personally the course was a success; I learned a lot about the Spanish language and culture, I can manage standard situation, however I did not pass the exam. I had to do another course to get my ECTS.

 

The structure of the lectures was very good, it was al about communicating and only the supportive grammar was discussed. The reason why such grammar rules exists was not within the scope of this course. The materials used were also very good; some reading exercises, but most of the exercises were communication-based. It was a very interesting course and I have no regrets that I have followed this course, despite I did not pass the exam.