To provide a stimulating learning environment in which students develop their linguistic skills in Spanish;

To enable students to understand both written and spoken spanish and analyse the linguistic nature of Spanish;

To enhance and develop the oral and listening practical skills;

To a ssist the students in speaking Spanish accurately and fluently .

(LO1) Upon completion of the module, students will have consolidated and extended their existing knowledge and ability to use the Spanish language and will have developed all skills - speaking, listening, reading, writing and interacting.

(LO2) Upon completion of the module, students will have developed their translation and written skills and will be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the structures, lexicon and registers of Spanish.

(LO3) Upon completion of the module, students will have improved their listening and speaking skills in order to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts and using the appropriate registers in more complex or professional environments.

(S1) Communication (oral, written and visual) - presentation skills – oral

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - presentation skills - written

(S3) Communication (oral, written and visual) - listening skills

(S4) Global citizenship - cultural awareness

Teaching method 1 - seminar.
Seminars consist of two hours per week of integrated skills classes, which include presentation, and practice of Spanish grammar and vocabulary in context and following a communicative approach. Students will have to do weekly preparations in advance of the seminars with the resources made available by their tutors.

Teaching method 2 - practical.
Consist of one hour per week of practical skills development sessions, which focus on oral interaction including listening and speaking activities, and following a communicative approach. Students will have to do weekly preparations in advance of the practical sessions with the resources made available by their tutors and a class test will take place between weeks 11 and 12.

Teaching method 3 - laboratory work.
Consist of one hour per week of practical skills development sessions, which focus on listening comprehension, phonetics / pronunciation and interpreting activities. Students will work independently but supervised and will have to do weekly follow up tasks with the resources made available by their tutors.

Teaching method 4 - tutorial.
Students will have at least two half hour scheduled tutorial sessions. One of them will be a group session to supervise class presentations and the other an individual follow up session to be scheduled on or around tutorial week.

Culture and society topics include: Understanding and discussing social, political, economic and work life issues in Spain and Latin America.

Grammar topics include: Combination of past tenses; Future and conditional tenses; Passive and impersonal constructions; Ser vs Estar; Further uses of the subjunctive; Relative subordinate clauses and past participles; Uses of the gerund; Prepositions and specific constructions; Personal and object pronouns; Lexical and grammatical devices to create textual cohesion; Enhancing vocabulary for descriptions.

Seminars Writing objectives: Writing clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects related to the students’ interests; Writing essays or reports, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view; Writing letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.

Reading objectives: Reading articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in w hich the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints; Understanding contemporary literary prose.

Spoken production objectives: Presenting clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to the students’ field(s)of interest; Explaining a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

Practical sessions Spoken interaction objectives: Interacting with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible; Taking active part in discussions in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining the students’ views.

Laboratory work Listening comprehension objectives: Understanding extended speech and lectures and following even complex lines of argument provided the topic is reasonably familiar; Understanding most TV news and current affairs programmes; Understanding the majority of films in standard dialect.