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Intensive Elementary Spanish
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Direct Enroll Program
Barcelona, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2027 - mid Dec 2027
Intensive Elementary Spanish
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Spanish Language & Literature
Instruction in: Spanish
Course Code: SA1001S
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 100
Recommended Semester Credits: 6
Contact Hours: 90
DESCRIPTION
On completing this course, student should be able to:
- Relate letters to their corresponding sounds, especially homophones (b/v, c/z) and homographs (c, g, before e/i and a/o/u).
- Recognise and pronounce the following with basic Spanish intonation of: declaration, exclamation, interrogation and hesitation.
- Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker.
- Understand basic information (street signs, information about third parties, advertisements and instructions about basic academic tasks) and be able to communicate in everyday situations.
- Take part in simple conversations about events in daily life: habitual communicative situations (forms of social interactions), personal relations (talking about experiences, asking for and giving opinions, talking about customs and comparing) and relations with the professionals and staff of public services (asking for information, assistance, requesting a service).
- Read and gain a general and detailed understanding of simple texts that allow basic activities to be carried out.
- Reading and accurate understanding of specific texts with the aid of a dictionary: academic programmes, recipes, cinema listings, etc.
- Reading aloud texts written by themselves and by others.
- Using simple structures to narrate present, past and future events. Describe proposals and intentions.
- Fill in forms; write personal notes, postcards or informal letters.
- Take notes and transcribe oral messages.
- Apply strategies to increase understanding of oral and written messages, deduce meaning from context, associate meanings, discover similarities by comparison with another language, and identify internationalisms.
- Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading activity (between students and the teacher).
- Start using a bilingual dictionary.
- Relate letters to their corresponding sounds, especially homophones (b/v, c/z) and homographs (c, g, before e/i and a/o/u).
- Recognise and pronounce the following with basic Spanish intonation of: declaration, exclamation, interrogation and hesitation.
- Express themselves with a minimum level of correctness and a pronunciation that can be understood by a Spanish speaker.
- Understand basic information (street signs, information about third parties, advertisements and instructions about basic academic tasks) and be able to communicate in everyday situations.
- Take part in simple conversations about events in daily life: habitual communicative situations (forms of social interactions), personal relations (talking about experiences, asking for and giving opinions, talking about customs and comparing) and relations with the professionals and staff of public services (asking for information, assistance, requesting a service).
- Read and gain a general and detailed understanding of simple texts that allow basic activities to be carried out.
- Reading and accurate understanding of specific texts with the aid of a dictionary: academic programmes, recipes, cinema listings, etc.
- Reading aloud texts written by themselves and by others.
- Using simple structures to narrate present, past and future events. Describe proposals and intentions.
- Fill in forms; write personal notes, postcards or informal letters.
- Take notes and transcribe oral messages.
- Apply strategies to increase understanding of oral and written messages, deduce meaning from context, associate meanings, discover similarities by comparison with another language, and identify internationalisms.
- Use Spanish as a vehicular language of communicative interaction of the reading activity (between students and the teacher).
- Start using a bilingual dictionary.