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

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six 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.

Advanced Spanish: Conversation

DESCRIPTION AND AIMS

The main goal of the course is to provide students with the necessary skills to develop their oral skills in Spanish at the advanced level, both in formal and informal situations, by focusing on organization techniques of oral speech. Students will also improve their interaction skills in conversation, and will be offered the appropriate tools to carry out oral expositions about current topics successfully.

SYLLABUS

- Verifying information and making judgements.
- Reporting a conversation.
- Expressing surprise, incredulity and indifference.
- Expressing feelings, likes and emotions.
- Transmitting and summarizing information.
- Talking about something, emphasizing it, and raising objections.
- Inquiring about something or someone.
- Giving one's opinion by providing arguments for or against something.
- Expressing agreement, partial agreement and disagreement in formal and informal situations.
- Judging proposals, accepting them and turning them down.
- Judging some information and giving one's opinión.
- Talking about others, expressing indifference or disagreement, clarifying or adding information.
- Expressing one's opinion with different levels of involvement.
- Contrasting opinions.
- Trying to convince someone of something.
- Giving reasons.
- Agreeing with someone.
- Telling someone they are right/wrong.

METHODOLOGY
Students will be provided with oral resources and tools that will enable them to build their oral competence at an advanced level of Spanish. This will be achieved through different activity types, such as communicative situations, debates, oral presentations

Students' assessment will be based on their active participation in debates as well as in presentations of topics related to Spanish society and culture.

ASSESSMENT
The final grade will be calculated according to the following grade breakdown:

Participation & attendance: 70%
Presentations: 30%

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAMORRO, M.D., Abanico, Barcelona, Difusión, 1995.
FERREIRO, P. y ZAYAS-BAZÁN, E., Cómo dominar la redacción, Madrid, Playor, 1991.
GONZÁLEZ, A y ROMERO, C., Curso de puesta a punto en español. Escribe, habla, entienda argumente, Madrid, Edelsa, 1998.
LEÓN, Eugenia, Dar que hablar. Propuestas de conversación para ejercicios de lenguaje, Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, 2000.
MARTÍN PERIS, M. y SANS, L., Gente. Curso de Español para Extranjeros, Barcelona, Difusión, 1997.
MIQUEL, L. y SANS, N., Como suena I II, Madrid, Difusión, 1992.
Prisma. Avanza, Madrid: Edinumen, 2004.
Sueña 3, Madrid: Anaya, 2001.
VV.AA., Preparación Diploma Básico Lengua Extranjera, D.B.E., Madrid ,Edelsa, 1995

Instructor's own materials.

 Note:
- The grading system, as well as the assessment standards, will be the same as those used in the U.S.A.