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Spanish A2 September

Communication, grammar and presentation skills

This course is addressed to learners with a previous knowledge of Spanish who completed the A1 level during the last academic year or who were assigned to the A2 level after the placement test.

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EUI language courses are free for EUI PhD and LL.M. researchers, but most other EUI members have to pay a nominal fee. 
 

 

Spanish 201


Communication and grammar skills

CEFR level A2

All EUI members except for 1st year researchers

Time 


4-27 September

Monday & Wednesday

15.00-16.30

12 hours

Place & Instructor


Convento

Wittgenstein Room

Edurne Iraizoz

 

Spanish 201: Communication and grammar skills


Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will

  • have reached level  A2 of the Common European Framework (Waystage) 
  • be able to discuss personal information.
  • be able to find information in a text
  • be able to express personal opinions
  • be able to formulate requests
  • know how to discuss the past, present and future
  • know how to agree and disagree
  • be able to make hypotheses
  • have become immersed in Hispanic culture

Course contents

 

Course materials are provided by the Spanish teacher
 

The course includes work on the following:

  • Listening comprehension: 

information about topics of general interest in normal speech; topics of personal or professional interest; to learn how to take notes while listening.

  • Written comprehension:

Tests that consist mainly of high frequency everyday and academic-related language.

Newspaper articles.

  • Oral interaction:

To deal with dialogues in most situations where the language is spoken.

Conversation on topics of personal and professional interest.

  • Oral expression:

Connection of phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and events.

To give (briefly) reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

To describe (briefly) the topic of one's own research.

  • Writing:

Capacity to write a simple connected test on topics of personal and academic interest.

Learning methods and activities

Activities in and out of class include:

  • Reading comprehension
  • Grammar learning in small groups
  • Pairwork
  • Evaluation with exercises
  • Auto-correction
  • Role play
  • Independent writing
  • Note taking

Teacher's bio

Edurne Iraizoz, born and raised in Pamplona, Spain, graduated from the University Autónoma of Barcelona with a degree in “Ciencias de la información”.
She followed courses on Spanish philology and “Teaching techniques of Spanish as a foreign language” at the Universities of Salamanca and Santander.
She has been teaching Spanish at the EUI since 1988. 
Her research interests lie in the field of the multicultural interaction , the pedagogy of teaching a second or third language, pragmatics in learning and communication, the importance of texts in the learning process.

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