Standard syllabus
Spanish · Undergraduate · Languages
Topics
Foundations and proficiency goals
- Map personal goals to ACTFL-aligned Can-Do statements
- Master high-frequency vocabulary and classroom interaction language
- Practice spanish orthography and pronunciation (including regional variation) to automaticity appropriate to level
- Use spaced repetition and deliberate practice logs
- Participate actively in seminar/lab with risk-taking
- Reflect metacognitively after major tasks
Interpretive communication
- Identify main ideas and details in level-appropriate texts/media
- Build reading and listening literacy beyond the textbook, including spanish orthography and pronunciation (including regional variation)
- Infer meaning using morphology, context, and discourse markers
- Summarize sources accurately without patchwriting
- Distinguish factual information from opinion/stance
- Prepare interpretive notes for discussion and essays
Interpersonal communication
- Sustain conversations on course themes with increasing independence
- Ask clarifying questions and paraphrase to repair breakdowns
- Adjust register for classmates vs instructors
- Complete collaborative tasks (interviews, role-plays, debates)
- Write interactive correspondence (email, forum, chat) as assigned
- Give and use peer feedback on communicative effectiveness
Presentational tasks and culture
- Deliver oral/signed presentations with clear organization
- Write multi-paragraph academic and personal genres as assigned
- Integrate citations when using outside sources
- Analyze cultural products, practices, and perspectives
- Make informed cultural comparisons without stereotyping
- Assemble a portfolio of best interpretive/interpersonal/presentational work
What each unit includes
Open a unit below for full materials. Typical resources:
- Study guide
- Exam Strategy
- Common Mistakes
- Worksheets
- Word problems
- Mixed Practice
- Multi-Unit Problems
- Review
- Practice test
- Answer key
Study units
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$60.00 · 60 min · Undergraduate · Online ($60/hr)
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