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Degrees Programmes offering Spanish as a Major language
LA447 - From the Caves to Modern Graffiti: A
Visual History of the Spanish Language
Director:
Ms Gladis Garcia-Soza
Email:
gladis [add @essex.ac.uk] Telephone:
01206 872186 Office:
4.320
For further details see
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/la/
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Module Description
This module is linked to The Materials Bank of the
National Subject Centre for Languages,
Linguistics and Area Studies.
This is a specialist
content and language module for students who have an A Level in Spanish
or who have passed the Intensive Spanish modules LA411 and LA412. The
materials cover the history of the Spanish language from pre-history to
modern times. There
is no exam component for this module.
All the
materials for the module can be accessed within the University and from anywhere in the
world if you are a student at the University. You can save the materials
and your own work in a folder named 'LA447-From the Caves' to your
personal drive. If you do not wish to do this you can print any part or
chapter of the materials you think necessary.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the
module students will be able to use different varieties of written and
spoken Spanish; write reports, commentaries, essays and exposs; use
spoken Spanish to show a range of styles and emotions in conversations,
exchanges, presentations, situationals and seminars; and would also have
acquired a set of transferable and cognitive skills.
Language component
The module will cover
advanced syntactical and lexical structures.
Main Assessment
Component
Project Guidelines
It
Marking Criteria :
What your marks mean and feedback to improve your
performance
Marking Criteria for coursework:
Content of
Written
language Work
/ Oral
Work
Marking Criteria for Project:
Project
Excellence / Analysis
of content /Language
performance
Materials : Online course / Dictionary / A dictionary of idioms
WORK CALENDAR
| Weeks 2-5 Materials | Introduction - Cuestionario- PresentationMaterias - IntroductionTema - Listening - Project Guidelines |
| PRE-CASTILIAN STAGES | |
| WEEK 3 | Meeting of two worlds - Prehistory - Listening |
| WEEKS 4 - 5 | Spanish past and present - Pre-Romans - Listening |
| WEEK 6 | Prepare scripted
group conversations on 2 related films.
Instruction are in the Handbook. Friday midday deadline to submit a)the scripted/written version of your conversation 400 words minimum on Online Course Submission and b)hand in a watermarked copy of the script for the conversation to the secretaries in Language and Linguistics before 4 o'clock. |
| WEEK 7 | Assessment |
| Week 8 - 11 | Presentation - Latin in Spain - Listening - Presentation - Visigoths - Listening - Muslims - Listening - Exercises |
| Presentation - Castilian - Listening | |
| DEVELOPMENT OF CASTILIAN AND EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF SPANISH | |
| WEEK 10 | Pres - PeninsularSpanish - Pre - JudeoSpanish - How to write a Project - Modern Spanish |
| WEEK 11 | Open exam -
Connectors Grammar Test How to write a Project |
| WEEKS 12 - 16 | Work on the Project - How to write a Project |
SECOND TERM
| EUROPEAN VARIETIES | |
|
WEEK 16 - 19 Materials |
CANARIAN VARIETY - Project Guidelines |
| AFRICAN VARIETIES | |
| WEEK 17 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA - Pres / WESTERN SAHARA |
| VARIETIES OF THE AMERICAS | |
| WEEK 18 | Present- SPANISH IN THE USA |
| WEEK 19 | PRES-CREOLES- SPANISH CREOLES |
| WEEK 20 | Firm Draft of the Project - Submit on OCS - Deadline Friday midday - 700 words - Project Guidelines |
| WEEKS 21 - 22 | PRES-LATIN AMERICAN VARIETIES - LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH-ORIGINS - Latin American Spanish History - Rasgos del latinoamericano |
| MODERN VARIETIES | |
| WEEK 23 | Pres - MODERN EUROPEAN & LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH - MINORIAS iN SPAin - MINORIAS iN LATIN AMERICA - Project Guidelines |
| WEEK 24 | GRAFFITI - EXAMPLES GRAFFITI - Para terminar... |
| WEEK 25 | Prepare scripted
group conversations on 2 related films.
Instruction are in the Handbook. Friday midday deadline to submit a)the scripted/written version of your conversation 400 words minimum on Online Course Submission and b)hand in a watermarked copy of the script for the conversation to the secretaries in Language and Linguistics before 4 o'clock. |
| WEEKS 26 - 29 | FINISH THE PROJECT -Project Guidelines |
| WEEK 30 | Hand in the project on OCS and bring a watermarked copy to the main office Language & Linguistics |
ASSESSMENT CALENDAR
| Week 6 |
Prepare
Scripted
Group
Conversations on 2 related films Instructions in Handbook (oral & scripted/written - 2 marks - 400 words in Spanish). Friday midday deadline to submit a)the scripted version of your conversation 400 words minimum on Online Course Submission and b) hand in a watermarked copy of the script for the conversation to the secretaries in Language and Linguistics |
20 |
|
Week 7
|
Group conversation videoed - Instructions |
|
|
Week 11 |
MONDAY -Open Exam - Connectors TUESDAY - Grammar Test
|
20 |
|
Week 20 |
Firm Draft of the Project - Submit on OCS - Deadline Friday midday - 700 words - Project Guidelines |
20 |
|
Week 25 |
Project Conversation - Oral &
Scripted -
Instructions |
20 |
|
Week 30
|
Project Guidelines |
20 |
Materials and Reading List
Online Materials
Alatorre,
Antonio, Los 1001 aos de la lengua espaola, Fondo de Cultura
Econmica, 2002, 3rd edition
Fishman, JA, (2001)
(ed) Handbook of language and ethnic identity,
Oxford University Press, c1999
Mackenzie ,Ian, A linguistic
introduction to Spanish, Muenchen: LINCOM EUROPA, 2001
Mar-Molinero, C & Stewart, M (2006a)
(eds) Globalization and language in the Spanish-Speaking World,
Palgrave Macmillan.
Mar-Molinero,
C (1997) The Spanish-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction To
Sociolinguistic Issues, Routledge.
Mar-Molinero, C (2000) The
Politics of language in the Spanish-speaking world, Routledge.
Obe,
E Biografa de una lengua; nacimiento, desarrollo y expansin del
espaol, Cartago, Costa Rica: Libro Universitario Regional 2000
Penny, R (1991) A history of the
Spanish language, Cambridge University Press.
Penny, R Variation and change in
Spanish,
Cambridge;
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Pountain, C A history of the
Spanish language through texts,
London:Routledge, 2001R
Roca,
A and Colombi, Ma C Mi lengua: Spanish as a heritage Language in the
United
States, Research and Practice,
Georgetown UP, 2003
Valds,
G Developing Minority language Resources: the case of Spanish in
California,
Multilingual Matters, 2006
