Modern Languages at The University of Essex

LA459 - Spanish Project
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/

Module Description

This module is based on group and project work and can only admit 5 students. It is a specialist content module for students who have passed LA440 or are heritage speakers (a student whose first language is English and has been educated in the UK whose mother or/and father are Spanish-speaking or a student who has been educated for a number of years in a Spanish-speaking country) or have similar qualifications. The group meets for 2 hours on weeks 2,6,10,16,20, and 24 only and is supported by email tutoring.

 

Learning Outcomes

Written Component: Provided that students meet the requirements of the module, by the end of the module students will be able to produce a project in Spanish using a wide range of lexical and syntactical structures; will be able to analyse Spanish-speaking prose and poetry; and write drafts, reports, commentaries, and exposes.

Spoken Component: By the end of the module students will normally be able to use spoken Spanish to show a range of styles and registers in conversations, presentations, situationals and seminars

 

PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

The topics for the project will have a practical orientation (watching films, TV programmes, Internet artefacts, etc) and would normally be based on contemporary issues related to popular culture and contemporary media of the Spanish-speaking world. For instance, compare 2 films by the same director; the advantages and difficulties of moving to Spain; the language used in women's magazines; analysis of political parties' web sites and so on. The title and resources for the project will be negotiated between the students and the supervisor. The materials will be taken from a range of authentic sources (specific literature, popular media, Internet, contemporary press, etc.) covering a variety of features of written prose, registers, and styles which should be connected specifically to the topic chosen for the project.
     

   

 

Learning & Teaching Methods

 

2 hrs Enquiry-Based Learning Approach group-work on Weeks 2, 6, 10, 16, 20, 24; distance tutoring through e-mail exchanges.

 

Marking Criteria: A set of standards, rules, or tests on which a mark or decision is given.

Marking Criteria for Coursework: Glossary of Terms / Content of  Work /  Language of written work/ Oral Work  
Marking Criteria for the Project:   Excellence-Analysis - Difficulty -  Language

Criteria to mark project-based presentation:      Content    Language       Presentation Skills

Exams - NO exams

 

WORK  CALENDAR

LA459 - Terms

FIRST TERM - Asistencia

WEEK 2  - PROJECT first instructions
Diagnostic & Self-Assessment- 1-2-3
Module induction to Project Based Learning

WEEK 6
Group-work - Oral Participation mark - PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
Written draft; more elaborated ideas and possible title for discussion - 700+(send by email to me by Friday 4 o'clock previous to Monday meeting)
First list of resources to be used

WEEK 10
Group-work - Oral Participation mark - PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
Written provisional structure  - 1000 +(send by email to me by Friday 4 o'clock previous to Monday meeting)
List of resources in use

SECOND TERM

WEEK 16
Group-work - Oral Participation mark - Group work - PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

Written and oral:  first solid draft with some flesh and divided in parts - 2000 words(send by email to me by Friday 4 o'clock previous to Monday meeting)

Final resource list

WEEK 20

Group-work - Oral Participation mark - PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

Written second draft - 3000 words(send by email to me by Friday 4 o'clock previous to Monday meeting)
Tentative structure, findings

WEEK 24

Group-work - Oral Participation mark - PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

Written final draft - 5/6000 words (send by email to me by Friday 4 o'clock previous to Monday meeting)
Structure, references and bibliography nearly completed
How to acknowledge references

THIRD TERM

WEEK 31
How to acknowledge references

Project Delivery - PROJECT - 6000 minimum
Project Presentation - 10 minutes  - Presentation Times

 

 

ASSESSMENT CALENDAR - Coursework only (year's work, dissertation and presentation)

 

Written 60%             Oral 40%
Class Weeks	Activity	Number of marks	Value
2, 6, 10, 16, 20, 24	Group-work Oral participation	6 marks, only best 5 are taken	20%
2, 6, 10, 16, 20, 24	Written project development	6 marks, only best 5 are taken	20%
31	Project delivery -PROJECT Friday midday by OCS and bring a watermarked hard copy to main office in Language and Linguistics	4 marks	30%
13/05/2010	Presentation based on project 10 minutes - Presentation Times	2 marks	30%

 

For further details see http://courses.essex.ac.uk/la/

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