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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
SPAN 50A | Title:
BEG CONVERSATION-I |
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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 |
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| 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:
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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:
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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: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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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
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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:
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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:
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COMO SE DICE . . .? by Jarvis, et al, Heath, current edition
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