ACC 190 Elementary Spanish

Content

This course helps you to expand the skills and strategies you will need to handle successfully a certain number of basic social situations you may encounter in daily life in Spain or in Latin-American countries, or when meeting Spanish-speaking people in your country of origin. This course is a follow-up version of ACC 090 and will continue to put emphasis on speaking and on comprehending reading material in Spanish without using translations. There will be a variety of oral and written communication tasks that will be done in small groups or in pairs. Individual 10-minute presentations in Spanish are also part of the course.

The exit level corresponds to A2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF).

Instructor

Carolina Sánchez-De Jaegher, M.A.

Period

Fall / 2011

Course Material

• Corpas, J., García, E., Garmendia, A. y Soriano, C., Aula Internacional 2, Barcelona: Difusión, 2005.
• Dueñas, C., Hermoso, A., Vélez, A., Competencia Gramatical en uso Ejercicios de gramática: forma y uso A2, Edelsa.
• Lopéz, J., Practica tu español – Practica la conjugación, SGEL

Prerequisites

The following course is required in order to take this course:

• ACC 090 Beginner Spanish

Additional Prerequisites

An academic equivalent of ACC090 or evidence of language ability (entrance test) can also be used as prerequisites for ACC 190.

Required for

This course is required in order to take the following course:

• ACC 290 Intermediate Spanish