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Foreign Language II

Code: LTU1214    Acronym: LEIIE

Subject: 2018/2019 - 2S

Teaching Area: Modern Languages

Hours Effectively Taught

Teaching - Hours

Theoretical-Practical: 3,00
Other: 0,80

Teaching Language

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRICULAR UNIT

Initial level of Spanish for professional purposes. (A2).
This Curricular Unit follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

AIMS
The main objective of this Curricular Unit is to teach students the tools and concepts needed to express themselves with a clear and precise language in a work situation.

SKILLS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
In the contact sessions the teacher will focus the following skills: listening comprehension, oral interaction, written expression, grammatical and lexical acquisition.
At the end of this curricular unit, the student should be able to:

Follow a conversation and understand the speech addressed to him.
Write notes and / personal and simple business letters.
Describe and easily compare living conditions, professional and socio-cultural aspects.

Programme

I. Communicative functions:
Give and ask for information; express opinions, attitudes and knowledge; express preferences, desires and feelings; influence the interlocutor; socialize and structure the speech.

II. Grammar:
Continuation: continuar + gerund; personal pronouns with prepositions and as an OD/OI; adjectives and possessive pronouns; adjectives and indefinite pronouns; mucho; imperfecto tense; irregular forms of the gerund; the purpose: para que + subjunctive; personal pronouns: two pronouns as complements, enclitic forms with two pronouns; por y para; present of subjunctive; imperative, negative imperative; superlative; personal pronouns with imperative; adverbs of manner; conditional sentences; indefinido tense; pluperfect tense; use of past tenses; the obligation: haber de + infinitive; uses of ser and estar.

III. Lexical Contents:
Lexical on advertising; patronage; the food; marketing strategies; retribution: ways and means of payment; the banks; the CV; letters; careers.

IV. Cultural content:
Introduction to socio-cultural and intercultural behavior of Spanish-speaking countries: Art and Culture in Latin America; gastronomy in Spain; Hispanic community in the US; the variety of Spanish language.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The programmatic content combines active pedagogical practices of communication with systematic exercises to learn enough vocabulary and grammar to reach the level A2 of the CEFR.

Main literature

PROST, G. e NORIEGA FERNÁNDEZ, A.;Al Día. Curso de español para los negocios. Nivel Inicial. Libro del alumno, SGEL, 2006. ISBN: 84-9778-291-7
PROST, G. e NORIEGA FERNÁNDEZ, A.;Al Día. Curso de español para los negocios. Nivel Inicial. Cuaderno de Ejercicios, SGEL, 2006. ISBN: 84-9778-2912-5

Supplementary Bibliography

CENTELLAS, A.; PALACIOS, A.; GODED, M. y HERMOSO, A.;Bienvenidos de nuevo. Español para Profesionales. Turismo y Hostelería, , enClave-ELE, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-16108-39-8
AGUIRRE BELTRÁN, B.;;El Español por profesiones. Servicios Turísticos, SGEL, 2004. ISBN: 84-7143-481-4
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/index.jsp
http://www.zonaele.com/
http://www.rae.es

Learning Methods

We use the Al Día reference manual, SGEL, as a method of learning Spanish for professional purposes, because it has a communicative approach that favors teamwork, the use of multimedia tools and compliance with CEFR directives.


Assessment Components

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Assessment Components

Description Type Time (hours) Conclusion Date
Attendance (estimated)  Lessons  45
 Teste/Exame  3
 Trabalho laboratorial ou de campo  35
 Participação Presencial  12
 Study  65
  Total: 160

Continuous Assessment

Individual oral presentation (1): 30 %
Individual written tests (2): 70% (35%+35%)

Under the terms of the Degree Regulation:

1. The actual presence of the students in the classes will be registered and, if the number of absences per student exceeds 30% of the total number of contact sessions provided for each course unit, it will automatically be transferred to the final evaluation of the normal period.
2. In the written tests referred to in paragraph 5 a) of Article 38 and in the evaluation elements referred to in paragraphs b) to e) of paragraph 2 of Article 39 it is necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 7.5 (seven comma five) values.
3. If the student fails or obtains a grade lower than 7.5 points in the written tests or assignments, he will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the normal season.
4. If the student is absent or gets a grade lower than 7.5 points in the second written test (held on the same date as the final written test of the normal time), he / she may apply for evaluation at the time of appeal.

Final Exam

Written exam: 100%

The student classified with 8 (eight) or 9 (nine) values in the written exam will have access to an oral test.


Proofs and special works


Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

The communicative approach and use of multimedia tools enhances and favors the acquisition of the required competences in the level to be achieved in this curricular unit by simulating and reproducing the situations in which the new user of the language will be in his professional and personal life.