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FLS 281 - Spanish for Heritage Spkrs II

Credits: 4
Lecture Hours: 4
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Core
This course is the continuation of  FLS 181  and is intended for students who can communicate in Spanish, but need to further develop reading, writing and speaking skills in a more accelerated environment than a traditional Spanish course. It provides further practice of writing and speaking with respect to language register. This course further develops the Spanish speaker’s skills in intermediate reading and writing through a series of more extensive readings, grammar drills and directed compositions, and continues study of more formal Spanish.
Prerequisite: FLS 181  or FLS 152  or permission of instructor
Competencies
  1. Express events and actions in the future, conditional, present perfect, future perfect, past perfect, and imperfect subjunctive forms in spoken and written activities.
    1. Analyze verb types and endings and use endings appropriately.
    2. Use all forms of future, conditional, subjunctive and participles for perfective forms correctly.
    3. Use the present subjunctive after conjunctions and in other more complex uses.
    4. Use the imperfect subjunctive in conditional expressions in reference to the past and in hypothetical clauses
  2. Construct clear, concise, correct, and effective sentences and paragraphs to inform or persuade through writing research papers, reviews, comparative essays, scripts, persuasive essays and propaganda.
    1. Write sentences that follow basic rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and accentuation
    2. Analyze individual writings for accuracy in spelling using rules of orthography in connection of sounds to letters and accentuation.
    3. Analyze individual writings for clarity, coherence and completeness.
    4. Apply skills of organization and employ use of transition words and conjunctions within complex sentences and paragraphs.
    5. Write using good paragraph form with topic sentences and supporting information.
  3. Analyze and use appropriately formal and informal forms of speech and distinguish regional varieties of Spanish in written and oral form.
    1. Distinguish registers of writing and speech and use them appropriately.
    2. Identify cognates and calques and use them in appropriate contexts.
    3. Identify words that are more regional in usage versus those that are more global.
  4. Read and/or listen to complex passages and literary forms including poems, short stories, plays and other reading passages and analyze them appropriately.
    1. Distinguish between main and supporting facts and ideas in a selection through summarizing selected readings
    2. Show comprehension by identifying theme and supporting information.
  5. Analyze and use more complex forms of speech including pronouns, prepositions and relative pronouns
    1. Distinguish direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns in reading and listening and use them effectively in writing and speaking activities.
    2. Identify and use the personal a.
    3. Use appropriately verbs that require prepositions in appropriate contexts.
    4. Identify and use relative pronouns in appropriate contexts.
  6. Differentiate between Spanish and English usage in certain problematic expressions.
    1. Use knowledge of adjectives in Spanish to form their equivalents to English adjectives appropriately.
    2. Differentiate Spanish expressions that are used equivalent to English expressions to become, to raise, right and wrong
  7. Recognize and use the passive voice
    1. Identify instances when the passive voice is used and identify its purpose.
    2. Change sentences from active voice to passive voice.



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