4/29/2024 9:45:51 AM	SPAN 50A Course Outline as of Fall 1981	New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  SPAN 50A	Title:  BEG CONVERSATION-I
Full Title:  Conversation for Beginners - Part I
Last Reviewed:11/25/2019

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	.50	Lab Scheduled	1.00		3 min.	Lab Scheduled	17.50
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	4.00			Contact Total	70.00
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

A beginning oral communication course designed to improve those listening and speaking skills needed for survival at school, on the job, and in the community. Students participate in a variety of oral and written activities which promote pronunciation, comprehension, and communication abilities. Not open to students with two years of high school Spanish or one year of college Spanish with "A" or "B" grade within the past three years. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100A or ENGL 100.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Beginning oral communication course designed to improve listening & speaking skills needed for survival at school, on the job, & in the community. Participate in a variety of pronunciation, listening & conversational activities to improve their oral/aural competency.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100A or ENGL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

  LISTENING

 Students should be able to:  understand short utterances drawn from

 familiar material and identify types of authentic listening texts

 such as radio commercials, newscasts; respond to common social

 questions using stock phrases; understand directions and time;

 begin to understand utterances needed for shopping, banking,

 transportation, emergencies; acquire new vocabulary from context;

 recognize and understand most reduced forms and relaxed speech;

 respond appropriately to the teacher's instructions; pick out main

 ideas and key words in familiar material; begin to understand

 content questions.

 SPEAKING

 Students should be able to:  use limited memorized material in

 simple statement or question form (wh- and yes/no); identify and

 name objects, people, places, signs; give name, place of origin,

 and simple personal information; express belonging to family,

 institution, organization; express minimal courtesy; express

 agreement; disagreement, invitation, suggestion, refusal, acceptance;

 ask common social questions using stock phrases; ask for and give

 directions and time; begin to produce utterances for emergencies;

 recognize and produce English phonemes; recognize problems own

 language presents when trying to produce Spanish sound system;

 begin to convey appropriate meaning by using word stress, and

 statement or question intonation; recognize and produce grammatical

 inflections, ask teacher to repeat if unable to understand; begin

 to ask information questions related to class content; be able

 to give a short, formal report.

Topics and Scope

  CONTENT (Listening and Speaking)

 Self-identification, personal information; nationalities,

 occupations; basic classroom objects, structures and classes;

 colors; numbers 1 - 1,000,000; money demoninations, buying;

 clothing, shopping; telling time; calendar, dates, holidays,

 celebrations, seasons, weather; family members, simple greetings

 and courtesy expressions; understanding directions; interpreting

 feelings, emotions, and body language; house, home and society;

 food and drink; travel, transportation; health, body; job search;

 alphabet; cognates; pronunciation; interrogatives.

 TASKS (Listening)

 Listening for the main idea; listening with visuals; graphic

 fill-ins; selective listening; comprehension checks; dictation and

 variations; clue searching such as listening for cues to meaning

 in a text:  syntactic features; actors, action, object; listening

 readiness (prelistening) activities; information gap tasks.

 TASKS (Speaking)

 Questions; completion and cloze exercises; true or false; matching;

 sentence builders; word associations; group puzzles; surveys and

 polls; conversation cards; forced choice; slash sentences; directed

 dialogue; logical conclusions; information gap; conduct simple

 interview and report back to class.

 Content and topics will vary somewhat, but will reflect beginning

 communication skills required to function in cross-cultural,

 academic, social, and job related situations.

Assignments:

  Assignments and activities will include individual, pair and small

 group work, such as role-plays, interviews, problems-solving

 activities, dialogues and skits. Students will perform functional

 assignments in the community, such as requesting information over

 the telephone.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 15 - 25%
Written homework, Reading reports, Oral/written class exercises
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 30 - 35%
Listening comprehension,speakg
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 30 - 35%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, Translation
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 15 - 25%
Completion of required language lab hours

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

  COMO SE DICE . . .?  by Jarvis, et al, Heath, current edition

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