COURSE SYLLABUS: ADVANCED ORAL PRODUCTION

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: University of Belgrano

Course Title (English): Advanced Oral Production
Course Title (Spanish): Producción Oral Avanzada

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instruction in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 22.5 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 1.5 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 2.25 quarter units

Prerequisites: Intermediate II Spanish Level

Local Department: Programa de estudios argentinos y latinoamericanos

Course Number: PEAL 226 (SPAN 226)

(this class is normally taken in conjunction with other Spanish classes or to provide additional course hours)

Course Description

The aim of this course is to improve oral expression and fluency in communication among advanced students. The course encourages spontaneous use of the language. Students learn to develop and support their ideas in individual presentations or group discussions on assigned topics, expand their vocabulary and improve their pronunciation.

Program Schedule

Week 1

Presentation of material. Present yourself and tell the class about yourself: likes, desires, and a brief biography.

Week 2

Refer to conversations that occurred in another moment. Uses of the past tense and indirect style.

Week 3

Conflict situations according to Argentines. Recommendations. Imperative and expressions of influence.

Week 4

Turns in conversations. Topic: immigration. Stereotypes. Problems of adaptation and integration into the new society. Importance in the economic scheme. Examples in different countries.

Week 5

Methods of communication. News. Comment and evaluate events in the news.

Week 6

Publicity. Strategies of marketing. Creation of new needs and consumerism. Analysis and criticism of public announcements. Oppose yourself to other opinions.

Week 7

Debate: express opinions. Legalization of drugs: lower the crime? Marijuana or tobacco?

Week 8

Men and women in the 21st century: singular qualities of each one, work opportunities, compatibility of the new role of the women with family life.

Week 9

Midterm.

Week 10

Modification of nature and its consequences. Cloning of cells and species. Transgenic food. Climatic change.

Week 11

Collapse of transit in different cities. Solutions for Buenos Aires?

Week 12

Free circulation of information. Democratization of the culture? Sites of exchange of archives.

Week 13

Supernatural experiences. Superstitions vs. Rationality.

Week 14

Hypothetical situations. Group resolution of problems. Argument and counterargument.

Week 15

Final exam. Turn in final grades.

Course Evaluation

In agreement with the policies of the University of Belgrano the student can only have a 25% absence rate. The percentage of attendance that is required in order to take the final exam is 75%. Any trip or excursion that is not planned in the calendar is part of the 25% absence.

• Participatin & Attendance 15 %
• Presentation of assignments 25 %
• Midterm 20 %
• Final Exam (presentation) 40 %

Bibliography (Text and Materials)

Required:

• Destefanis, María Eugenia y Sanrame, María de las Mercedes; Producción Oral Avanzada, Buenos Aires, Universidad de Belgrano, 2011. Material didáctico para la enseñanza de E/LS.

Suggested Course Materials

• AA.VV.; Gramática básica del estudiante de español, Barcelona, Difusión, 2005.
• Diarios (Clarín, La Nación, Crítica de la Argentina, Página/12)
• Gómez Torrego, Leonardo, Gramática didáctica del español, Madrid, Ediciones SM, 2002.
• Lieberman, Dorotea Inés; Temas de gramática del español como lengua extranjera, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2007.
• Matte Bon, Gramática comunicativa del español, Madrid, Edelsa, 1995.

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