4/29/2024 9:43:02 AM	SPAN 50B Course Outline as of Fall 1981	New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  SPAN 50B	Title:  BEG CONVERSATION-II
Full Title:  Conversation for Beginners - Part II
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	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	1.00			Contact DHR	17.50
		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:  08 - May Be Taken for a Total of 6 Units
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

A high-beginning/low intermediate oral communication course designed to improve those listening and speaking skills needed for cross-cultural understanding in social, academic, and work-related situations. Not open to native speakers of Spanish. 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.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Completion of SPAN 1 or SPAN 50A with a grade of 'C' or better.

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

High- begining/low intermediate oral communication course designed to improve those listening & speaking skills needed for cross-cultural understanding in social, academic & work-related situations.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Completion of SPAN 1 or SPAN 50A with a grade of 'C' or better.
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:08 - May Be Taken for a Total of 6 Units

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:

 Recognize greetings, introductions, invitations; understand simple

 statements, questions and answers, and face to face conversations

 in standard dialect; with authentic material such as radio and TV

 broadcasts, conversations, instructions, can get the gist, main

 ideas, and relevant details; answer basic comprehension questions

 on a lecture or film and take rudimentary notes; take part in

 class discussions and debates; understand common reduced forms;

 recognize common idioms and phrases; begin to infer meaning from

 context; detect mood, attitude, urgency in speech.

 SPEAKING:

 Create utterances not limited to very familiar or memorized

 material; express agreement, disagreement; invite, suggest, refuse,

 accept; begin to make use of conversational strategies, such as

 asking for clarification, repetition, making small talk, initiating

 a topic, understanding body language, and gestures, interrupting

 politely; handle simple survival situations in banking, shopping,

 transportation; give a formal presentation; deal with common

 pronunciation errors; recognize and produce grammatical inflections;

 make many sound-spelling connections.

Topics and Scope

  Content and topics will vary somewhat, but will reflect beginning

 communicative skills required to function in cross-cultural,

 academic, social, and job-related situations.

 CONTENT (Listening):

 Social situations such as greetings, introductions, invitations,

 and appointments polite formulaic expressions; everyday topics such

 as:  transportation, custom agents and travel; telephone

 conversations, directions, instructions and correspondence, leisure,

 hobbies, customs, sports, money matters, bank, health, shopping,

 numbers (ordinal and cardinal), urban and rural life, cars and

 maintenance, office equipment and use, social and civil

 responsibilities; tragedies common to men; immigration.

 CONTENT (Speaking):

 Personal, biographical information; numbers 1 - 1000; restaurants

 and food; asking and giving directions; leisure, hobbies, and

 customs; transportation; telephone conversations; lodging; money

 matters; health; post office; shopping; social situations:

 invitations, greetings, introductions, appointments, polite

 formulaic expressions; urban and rural life; cars and maintenance;

 office equipment and use; social and civil responsibilities;

 tragedies common to all; immigraton.

 TASKS (Listening):

 Listen for the gist; listen with visuals; graphic fill-ins;

 selective listening; comprehensions check; dictation and variations;

 clue searching; physical response; note taking; story building;

 prelistening activities; paraphrase.

 TASKS (Speaking):

 Personalized questions, completions; sentence building; dialogue

 and story adaptation; create a story with visuals; chain stories;

 explain a process; interviews, surveys, and polls conversations

 cards; group consensus, problem solving; story telling; role

 playing; simple debates; information gap; give definitions and

 descriptions; ask relevant questions.

Assignments:

  Assignments and activities will include individual, pair, and

 small group work, such as role-plays, interviews, problem-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, Lab reports, Essay exams
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%
Class performances
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 30 - 35%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 15 - 25%
Completion of semester's language lab hours

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

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

 A Spanish-English Dictionary.

Print PDF