Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Low Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of one semester (or two quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Course Description:

Practical theoretical course focused on the aspects Spanish grammar that are considered problematic for the student studying Spanish as a second language. Through a communicative focus and using different types of materials, the rules of Spanish and its use will be revised.

General Objective:

Develop and improve the student's ability to communicate in Spanish in both the oral and written form.

Specific Objectives:

Analyze grammatical aspects in relation to the rules of Spanish.
Apply the system of the language in communicative contexts- both oral and written.

Contenidos:

Use of the personal forms of verbs: The imperative mode, the subjunctive mode in simple sentences, potential and conditional.
Indicative paradigm in Spanish: simple and compound.
Prepositions.
Pronominal syntax: Position of the formal pronouns.

Evaluation:

This course is developed through successive evaluations such as compositions, and the course will end with a final exam.

Referencia Bibliográfica:

Alarcos Ll. , E. Gramática Estructural . Madrid, Gredos,1970

Fuentes, J.L. Gramática Moderna de la Lengua Española, Madrid. Edit. Bibliográfica Chilena, 1988