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Degrees Programmes offering Spanish as a Major language
LA460 - Spanish Mastery Level
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
A
module for those students who have passed their year abroad or
for students who have achieved a high level in the language.
Pre-requisites: Open to
students who have passed LA440 and/or LA450 and have done successfully at least 16 weeks in a
Spanish-speaking country. The level required is C1 of the European
Framework for Languages as explained below.
| C1 | Students should be able: to understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning; to express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions; to use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes; to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices. |
Learning Outcomes
By
the end of the module students will be able to use different advanced
varieties of written and spoken Spanish; analyse Spanish and Latin
American prose; write reports, commentaries, essays and exposes; use
spoken Spanish to show a range of styles and emotions in conversations,
exchanges, presentations, situationals, debates and seminars; and would also have
acquired a set of transferable and cognitive skills. Students will
achieve level C2 of the Common European Framework on successful
completion of the module.
| C2 | Students should be able: to understand with ease virtually everything heard or read; to summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation; to express themselves spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations. |
Marking Criteria: For: Glossary of Terms / Content of Work / Language of written work/ Oral Work
Exams - A 3-hour written exam and an oral exam.
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COURSEWORK & ASSESSMENT CALENDAR
Feedback and Marking Criteria for coursework: Glossary of Terms / Content of Work / Language of written work/ Oral Work |
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| FIRST TERM - Materials for Weeks 2 - 11 - All 5 pieces of assessment have the same weight - only the best 4 will be considered | |
| WEEK 2 - 5 | 1Pre - Presentation |
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Week 6 Reading Week Preparation |
Assessment: Friday midday deadline Week 6 to submit
Preparation of Written ASSESSMENT:
Written and Oral group work. B) Read instructions on how to Prepare your part in a group conversation based on your written commentary (300/400 spoken words per member), a) submit this part of the conversation on Online Course Submission and b)hand in a watermarked copy to the administrators in Language and Linguistics by Friday midday WEEK 6. |
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Week 7 ASSESSMENT |
Oral ASSESSMENT: Deliver the conversation you have prepared with your group in 7 minutes allowing for equal number of minutes per member. |
| WEEKS 8 - 11 | 1PRES - Connectors -Precis Writing |
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Week 11 ASSESSMENT |
Combined ASSESSMENT:
a) Hand in
coursework
on OCS and watermarked copy to administrators by Friday midday- b)Open exam
- c)
Personal Interview
TIMES Connectors - Grammar Points |
| SECOND TERM | |
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Week 16 ASSESSMENT |
Reading
OPEN-EXAM -
Detailed Instructions for the work on a book
-
List of books |
| WEEKS 16-19 | Lengua - Revision - Connectors - Pre - Precis Writing - Vocabulary and Expressions - Spanish-speaking fantasy |
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Week 20 Reading Week Preparation |
ASSESSMENT Preparation: Prepare Scripted Group Debates on a topic . Instructions in Handbook (oral & scripted/written - 2 marks - 400 words in Spanish). Week 20 Friday midday deadline to submit a)the scripted version of your part 400 words minimum each student on Online Course Submission and b) a watermarked copy of the script for the debate to the secretaries in Language and Linguistics |
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Week 21 ASSESSMENT |
Oral ASSESSMENT Delivery: Debate: Deliver the debate you have prepared with your group in 7 minutes allowing for equal number of minutes per member. |
| Weeks 21 - 24 | ArticleAnalysis - Precis Writing - Vocabulary and Expressions - Letter -Commentary & features of Spanish |
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Week 25 ASSESSMENT |
ASSESSMENT:
a) Hand in coursework - b)Open exam
- c) Personal Interview Connectors - Grammar Points |
| THIRD TERM | |
| WEEKS 30 - 32 |
Week 30
 Revision
-
Grammar
this year
-
Cartas
-
Commentary -
Precis Writing
-
Lengua
-
Connectors |
Instructions for Oral Exam : Controlled Debate on a given topic
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Oral Exam Debates |
For your final oral exam you must prepare a debate in a group about a given topic related to the year's work. A list of topics will be provided for you to choose according to your interests. It is obligatory for you to send the title to the course director for approval long before your exam. |
LIST OF TIMES FOR THE ORAL EXAM |
Materials and Reading List
Online
materials
Diccionario
de Cine Espasa Calpe
Albertos,
L M Periodismo, peridicos y relatos periodsticos
Lectura sobreinterpretativa de la tesis de Toblas Peucer
http://revistas.ucm.es/inf/11341629/articulos/ESMP9696110063A.PDF
Allende,
I La casa de los espiritus
Castan
Rodrguez, J Generaciones estilsticas del periodismo deportivo sobre
ftbol http://www.idiomaydeporte.com/generaciones2.htm
Coddou,
M Allende, I, Hija de la fortuna : Rediagramacin fronteriza del
saber histrico
Correas
Zapata, C Isabel Allende: vida y espritus
De la Vega, L
El perro del Hortelano;
The dog
in the manger
/ Lope de Vega ; a new translation by David Johnston;
Del
Toro, G El laberinto del fauno (DVD);
http://axxon.com.ar/rev/173/c-173axxcine2.htm
Fente
Gomez, R Estilistica del verbo en ingls y espaol by Fente Gomez,
Rafael;
Introduccin.
Periodismo, peridicos y relatos periodsticos
http://www.comunicacionsocial.es/Archivos%20para%20descarga/IntroduccionP16.pdf
JSTOR:
Antologia estilistica
de la prosa moderna
espanola
http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2133(196905)52%3A2%3C346%3AAEDLPM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K&cookieSet=1
Literatura
y Periodismo: una tradicin de relaciones promiscuas
http://books.google.com/books?id=Yl-99Vhm6FIC&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=estilistica+del+espanol+periodistico&source=bl&ots=xWiLNBfeLa&sig=lNvgdVBqkILE_OsANdC2QKAhHK8&hl=en&ei=t0JkSo2uKoOZjAeM80E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5
JADT
2000 : 5es Journes Internationales dAnalyse Statistique des Donnes
Textuelles
Martnez
de Sousa, J. 2000. Manual de estilo de la lengua espaola. Gijn:
Ediciones Trea.
Moreno-Torres
Snchez, I Una Medida Cuantitativa de la Diversidad Estilstica:
Aplicacin al Anlisis de Textos Espaoles1,
Universidad de
Mlaga 29071 Mlaga Espaa
http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/jadt/jadt2000/pdf/06/06.pdf
Prlogo
de Lapesa,R, Beihauer, Werner El humorismo en el espaol hablado
(improvisadas creaciones espontneas).;
Rivarola
Matto, J M La Belle poque y otras hodas
Silva-
Corvaln, C Sociolinguistics y Pragmatica del espaol
http://books.google.com/books?id=jvIe0-Qu32wC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=estilistica+de+LA+NARRATIVA+ESPANOLA&source=bl&ots=VGSSwxZxJz&sig=TU0o2unW_lWoKMiTjJM9gjPIzis&hl=en&ei=-kVkSulrpayMB_iAve8P&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
Strauss, F (ed) ;
translated by Yves Baignres Almodvar on Almodvar /
Vidal,
N El cine de Pedro Almodvar, Destinolibro, 1990;
