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Spanish 1 Intermediate

Course
2019-2020

Admission requirements

This course is only available for students in the BA International Studies programme with an A2 Spanish level. You need to contact your coordinator of studies in order to check your language level and to do the entry test.
For this course a minimum number of 8 participants is required. If the minimum number of participants is not met, the course will be cancelled.

Description

Spanish 1 Intermediate is a language course for intermediate students.
The course has a communicative approach: attention will be paid to the use of the language in practical everyday situations. The focus will be on reading and listening comprehension (‘Reception activities’ (CEFR). There will be plenty of opportunities to interact in the target language through class activities and discussions. Students will be encouraged to practise reading and writing skills in their own time.
For this purpose, we will use a comprehensive intermediate-level method: Aula Internacional 3 Nueva Edición. The book is well structured and clearly laid out in different sections, with a task-based approach. This course is taught entirely in Spanish.

Course objectives

This course enables students with an A2 in Spanish to further develop their language skills and to complete the level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for reading and listening.

Spanish 1 Intermediate is the first course in a series of three language courses within the International Studies program. This communicative course develops the learners' oral and written proficiency in Spanish in most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in a country where Spanish is spoken.

The final objective of this course series is to obtain an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish: the student will be able to interact with native speakers with a sufficient degree of fluency and spontaneity to enable easy and natural communication between interlocutor and to understand the gist of complex texts about both concrete and abstract topics.

Skill CEFR Level
Reading B1+
Writing A2+
Listening B1
Speaking A2+

Timetable

The timetable is available on the BA International Studies website.

Mode of instruction

Tutorials

Three two-hour tutorials every week, with the exception of the midterm exam week. Attending all tutorial sessions is compulsory. If you are unable to attend a session, please inform your tutor in advance, providing a valid reason for your absence. Being absent will result in a lowering of the participation grade with 0.5 for every absence after the first five (5) times.

Course Load

Total course load for this course is 10 EC (1 EC = 28 hours), which equals 280 hours, broken down by:

Component Estimated time
Attending classes 72 hours
Assessment hours (exams) 6 hours
Preparing for classes, exams and extra activities 202 hours

Assessment method

Assessment & weighing

Partial grade Weighing
Participation & Quizzes (grammar and vocabulary) 20%
Midterm Exam (listening comprehension & reading comprehension & written production) 30%
Final Exam (listening comprehension & reading comprehension & written production) 30%
Oral Exam (presentations and interview and interaction with another student) 20%

End Grade

  • To successfully complete the course, please take note that the End Grade of the course is established by determining the weighted average of the in-class oral and listening performance, and written exams.

  • The End Grade needs to be a 6.0 or higher to pass the course.

Resit

If the End Grade is insufficient (lower than a 6.0), there is a possibility of retaking the full 80% of the exam material (reading, writing, speaking, and listening). No resit for the tutorial (participation) is possible.

Exam review and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Blackboard

Blackboard will be used for this course. Students are requested to enroll on Blackboard, but only after correct enrolment in uSis.

Reading list

  • Corpas, Garmendia, Soriano, Aula Internacional 3 Nueva edición Libro del alumno

    SKU: 9788415640110

  • E. Conejo; P. Seijas; B. Tonnelier; S. Troitiño, Cuadernos de Gramática española B1, Difusión, 2012

    SKU: 9788484438588

  • Online material published on Blackboard

Registration

  • Enrolment through uSis for Tutorials is mandatory.

  • Students will be enrolled for Exams by the Administration Office, as long as they have a valid Tutorial enrolment.

  • General information about uSis is available here.

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Not applicable

Contact

Drs. M.J. Pérez Rodríguez (coordinator)

When contacting lecturers or tutors, please include your full name, student number, and tutorial group number.
Please use your University email-address (uMail) when communicating with any person or department within Leiden University.

Student Affairs Office for BA International Studies

Remarks

Passing this course is an additional requirement for a positive Study Recommendation at the end of the year.

This course uses an integrated communicative language learning method. Therefore active participation in the classroom activities is essential for successful learning outcomes.