Spanish 4

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours

Spanish 3 or equivalent

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject equips students with more sophisticated language and intercultural skills to communicate about the self and other in Spanish in a wider range of social contexts. By the end students will be able to comprehend and produce a variety of personal stories. They will have the language skills necessary to describe emotions, places and people and to use language appropriate to everyday informal and an increasing number of formal situations. By reading newspapers and literary stories and watching the news and videos from different Spanish speaking countries they will learn to comprehend and write public stories. Students will also learn to give their opinion, participate in debates, evaluate and report on ideas in the Spanish language through engaging with culturally and politically significant texts from the Spanish-speaking world.

On successful completion of this subject, students should:

• be able to write a report, narrative or argument using reasonably accurate verb mood and tense and citing research academic sources;
• be able to debate ideas with increasing variety of lexicon and informed by academic research sources;
• have a good understanding of contemporary life in the Hispanic world with a focus on researching major social, political, historical and cultural issues;
• be able to undertake research about Hispanic topics with increasing level of independence and critical spirit;
• be able to express views and opinions based on research on a variety of Hispanic culture topics;
• be able produce spoken and written discourse from description to narration, to formulation of argument and/or hypothesis, incorporating an increasing variety of style and complexity;
• be able to maintain both a formal or informal conversation in Spanish with very little difficulty;
• be able to communicate with both native and non-native speakers of Spanish with emerging ability;
• be able to read an authentic literary text in Spanish comprehensively as a research source.

• Tarea 1 (250 words) due in week 5 [7.5%]
• Tarea 2 (250 words) due in week 9 [7.5%]
• Tarea 3 (250 words) due in week 13 [7.5%]
• Argumentative Essay (750 words) due in weeks 8 and 12 (This consists of two versions of the same work to be submitted via Turnitin. The second submission will be a revised version of the first assignment after feedback, with a reflective learning paragraph) [20%]
• Discussion Board (250 words) every Monday (a minimum of one 30-word contribution per week on LMS. Language is not assessed) [5%]
• Oral Test (750 words) due in week 10 (Role-play and conversation - details on LMS) [17.5%]
• Final exam (1500 words) during the examination period [35%]

Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.

Corpas, Garmendia & Soriano, Aula Internacional 3 (Units 6-10) Ed. Difusion, Barcelona, 2006

Romero Dueñas & Gonzalez Hermoso, Competencia gramatical en uso B1, (English version) Madrid: Ed. Edelsa, 2008

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

Students who successfully complete this subject should have:

• developed oral and written intercultural communication skills;
• developed time management and work planning skills;
• developed analytical and critical skills;
• improved research skills;
• enhanced information literacy skills;
• be able to reflect on second-language learning as a personal challenge;
• be able to dentify and describe any perceived learning difficulty;
• be able to name and describe texts and genres in the target language.