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Bachelor 2020/2021

Foreign Language (Spanish)

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Area of studies: International Relations
When: 3 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Yevgeny Bocharov, Svetlana V. Galina, Elena Garcia
Language: English
ECTS credits: 7
Contact hours: 232

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The entire course of language training of students is divided into two stages-the initial stage (I-II courses) and the advanced stage of training (III-IV courses). The stages differ in the complexity of the materials (from simple to complex) and the ratio of General literary language (dominates at the initial stage) and professional language for special purposes (prevails at the advanced stage). Both stages are inextricably linked and subordinated to a single goal of achieving the final program requirements. The ultimate goal is for students to pass the Spanish language exam, the format of which corresponds to the requirements and structure of the international exams Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE) and Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española (SIELE). The purpose of the course «Spanish language» at the advanced stage (3rd year of study) is to develop general cultural competence and professionally oriented communicative competence. Foreign language professional-communicative competence is the readiness and ability to carry out a foreign language communication in the conditions of intercultural professional communication (level B1-B2 on the pan-European scale of levels of foreign language proficiency MCER). The achievement of communicative competence in the range of these levels is the basis for the implementation of the principle of academic mobility in the world educational space, provides an opportunity to master any educational programs and disciplines in a foreign language, both in the framework of direct face-to-face interaction with teachers, and with the use of distance technologies.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • to build coherent statements, including arguments and expression of their attitude to the information received
  • to make reports and reports in a foreign language on socio-cultural and professionally relevant topics
  • to read and understand texts of different genres with different levels of penetration into the content
  • to understand lectures in a foreign language
  • to carry out analytical and synthetic processing of information received from oral, written and electronic sources
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • to summarize and comment adapted texts
  • to possess reading skills which can enable them to skim the text for main idea, to scan the text for specific information, and to deduce meanings from the context
  • to understand sentences and frequently used spoken expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance
  • to conduct a conversation with native and non-native speakers
  • to understand emotionally charged information in direct communication with a native speaker
  • to extract implicit information while speaking to a native speaker
  • to distinguish different accents of Spanish
  • to maintain an informal discussion, taking into account features of national culture of the interlocutor
  • to describe different situations of everyday life
  • to read and understand texts of different genres with different levels of penetration into the content
  • to be able to make summaries
  • to learn more about places of interest of Spain and Latin America
  • to present a reasoned opinion on a given issue
  • to read adapted and non-adapted texts
  • to make reports on a given topic
  • to be able to prepare team presentations
  • to be able to prepare team projects
  • to get acquainted with some pre-Columbian cultures
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • The role of mass media in the modern world
  • Sports and healthy lifestyle
  • Spanish language in different countries
  • Countries of Latin America: Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Argentina
  • Social behaviour in Spain and some Latin American countries
  • Spanish culture
    1. Modern architecture of Spain 2. Musical traditions 3. Cinema and television 4. Literary traditions of Spain
  • Tourism. Iconic tourist routes in Spain and Latin America
  • Latin America: challenges of the content (environmental, social, political and economic problems)
  • Spain: urgent socio-economic problems (education, emigration, economic crisis, unemployment)
  • Cultures of pre-Columbian America
  • The role of Spain in the EU
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Team presentation
  • non-blocking Test
  • non-blocking Team presentation
  • non-blocking Test
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (2 module)
    0.2*o.c.e. + 0.2*w.c.e. + 0.1*att. + 0.1*ind.work + 0.4*w.ex.
  • Interim assessment (4 module)
    0.2*o.c.e. + 0.2*w.c.e. + 0.1*att. + 0.1*ind.work + 0.4*w.ex.
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • ¿Qué significa estudiar la “cultura española moderna”? ; What Does It Mean To Study “Modern Spanish Culture”? (2015). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.503A5A6B
  • David Giménez Folqués. (2014). Cómo preparar la prueba de expresión oral de los diplomas B1 y B2 del DELE. Consejos y actividades prácticas. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6DF45FF8
  • David R. Ringrose. (2019). Historia urbana y urbanización en la España moderna. Hispania, (199), 489. https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.1998.v58.i199.645
  • El uso de materiales didácticos de E/LE para la preparación de los diplomas de español como lengua extranjera (DELE) del Instituto Cervantes: expresión y comprensión oral, nivel B2. (n.d.). Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). Facultad de Educación. Departamento de Didáctica, Organización Escolar y Didácticas Especiales. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edstdx&AN=edstdx.10803.460348
  • Spanish Spaces : Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture. (2012). Netherlands, Europe: Liverpool University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F9F2E0E2

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • De Uña-Álvarez, E., & Villarino-Pérez, M. (2019). Enlazando Cultura Del Vino, Identidad, Turismo Y Desarrollo Rural en Un Territorio Con Denominacion De Origen (Noroeste De España). Cuadernos de Turismo, (44), 533–539. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=141067043
  • El vínculo entre la marca España y la cultura en la prensa diaria ; The link between marca España and the culture in the daily press. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E1BB69BF