Spanish 305 is a conversation class whose overall objective is to provide the students with conversation practice to improve their communicative abilities in culturally and socially relevant contexts. The students are expected to acquire not only the ability to use the Spanish language but to do so with a sufficient knowledge of those social and cultural codes and values that may be embedded or may intersect with oral communication. In order to acquire a fluent and well-informed communicative competence the students need to receive this kind of input in addition to the purely linguistic one.
Thus this course uses texts and dialogues that provide
both linguistic information in terms of what vocabulary, expressions and
structures they need to achieve their goals. These communicative goals
are defined by specific situations such as travelling, going to a doctor,
looking for a job, etc. The texts and dialogues the students use as a starting
point also provide cultural and practical information about these situations
in a Peninsular Spanish context.
The Spanish
305 Website is thus designed to provide material to enhance traditional,
in-class instruction. In the website students will find
From the perspective of the instructor, the use of
the web and in particular of SERF offers some very interesting advantages:
The Spanish 305 Website intends to offer the students
the information they need to enhance their knowledge of Spanish culture
in all its different aspects: society, mass media, labour market, the role
of men and women. This will provide them with a solid basis and a good
starting point to improve their communicative skills. It is also designed
to encourage them to keep on exploring the culture through the language
beyond the boundaries of both the classroom and the course so that they
can develop a lifelong interest in Spanish language and culture.
jmperez@udel.edu | Back |