SA 111 Beginning Spanish II

Professor: Dr. Luisa Pérez

Office: 111B RH

Office Hours : 2:00 -2:50p.m M,W and R

Phone : (620) 341-5827

E-mail: perezlui@emporia.edu

Objectives: This course has been designed to provide a balanced approach to basic everyday life communication with native speakers of the Spanish language. For this purpose, students will be required to actively participate in class and outside of class ( e-mail and chat room ) in Spanish. Activities will consist of communicative tasks and negotiation of meaning in pairs or groups in class and through the Internet. There will be emphasis on oral production of the language without neglecting reading and writing skills.

In fact, students will be required to write a composition every week. The use of technology will be emphasized in this course as well according to new methodology trends.

Materials: Textbook and workbook: Vistas by Blanco et.al

E-mail account

Dictionary: Spanish-English/English/Spanish (any author, but not pocket dictionary).

Spiral notebook: to take notes and to keep syllabus, and

hand-outs.

Tapes: 1 blank tape for lab exercises (90 minute tape)

Evaluation:

Participation and dispositions ( chat included ) 30%

Quizzes 30%

Homework 20%

E-mail journals 10%

Oral interviews/presentations 10%

Participation Grade

To successfully complete this course, regular classroom attendance is imperative as there are multiple skills to be mastered. Your participation grade includes attendance, arriving on time, and staying the entire time , class preparation, and preparedness. ATTENDANCE IS RECORDED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS. If you are late three times, three tardies will be counted as one absence. Be sure to tell your professor that you were late at the end of the class so that she can record your tardiness and not your absence. Students are expected to actively participate in Spanish during communicative activities. Dispositions are responsibility, attendance, effort, punctuality, and good attitude. Also, pop quizzes will count toward your participation grade.

Attendance

Students are permitted ONLY FIVE ABSENCES throughout the semester(chat room and e-mail days included). If you get sick, those five absences will be used but you cannot be absent in the semester after that. If you are absent, you will start losing one letter grade from your course grade for each extra absence. You may also use those absences for family problems, car problems, weddings or vacation. However, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CLASS BEFORE YOU COME BACK. “I did not know because I did not come yesterday” will not be accepted. You must have a list of five of your classmates' phone numbers/e-mail addresses handy.

Homework

Students will be expected to do homework everyday (20% of class grade, e-mail messages included). If a student is absent from class, he/she is not supposed to turn in homework for that day, but he/she must come prepared for class the next day. In other words, the student must do homework for the day he/she is attending class. Allocate a minimum of one or two hours for homework because there will be days when you will have to read a story or write an e-mail letter (Tuesdays). You will not be able to do your homework in ten minutes or right before class starts. Organize your time from the very beginning of the course.

E-mail assignments

You will have to write a 150 word e-mail letter every Tuesday, starting the second week of class. The last 2 e-mail compositions of the semester must contain 200 words each (at least). You must have an e-mail account by the second week of class for this purpose . Your assignments will consist of writing letters to your professor telling about your daily activities, weekends, likes, dislikes, personal life, vacation or other concerns in SPANISH. Letters with less amount of words will not be credited . Your professor will e-mail you back by Wednesday. She will make some comments about the content of your message, but not about your grammar mistakes. You have to be very careful with your Spanish structure though because she will analyze those errors, but she will not tell you what the mistakes are unless you have an appointment with her in her office.

Fridays Chat Rooms

Every Friday (starting the second week of class) we will communicate in Spanish through our chat room at the following address http://esuwebct.emporia.edu:8900. We will have an informal conversation in Spanish using vocabulary and structure learned in the chapter that same week. Every student has to be sitting next to a computer on that day during class time. The student can be at a computer at home, computer center, dorm computer, etc. Everyone will have a userid and a password by the second week of the semester. This task will give students practice in Spanish and technology.

Oral Interviews and Oral Presentations

Each student will take both an oral exam in Spanish and he/she will give an oral presentation on Hispanic Culture toward the end of the semester (after Spring Break). Both, the interview and the oral presentation (portfolio and poster included) will last from five to ten minutes each. Details will be provided at the beginning of March. Students will not be allowed to read during the interview and/or presentation. If the student insists in reading his/her interview and/or presentation, he/she will receive a grade of F. Also, if a student fails to show up for the interview, there will be no make-up time for it.

Quizzes and Exams

There will be no make-up quizzes or exams . The dates are specified on the syllabus and students must read the calendar on the first day of class. If a student gets sick (doctor's information) on an exam or quiz day, he/she will have to drop that grade. A student can only drop one test except the final.

Quizzes and Exams Dates

Quiz 1 second week of October (Monday)

Quiz 2 first week of December (Monday)

Every Tuesday e-mail journal

Every Friday chat room (BRING TEXTBOOK AND HOMEWORK)

Oral interviews Fourth week of November

Oral presentations on Hispanic culture Last week of October

Course Dates, Topics Homework due on

(by week)

Aug.23 Cap. 5 Study present progressive,p.146

Study vocab.136-7 W

p. 147 Inténtalo R p.151, Inténtalo F

Aug.30 Cap. 5-6 Inténtalo, p.155

e-mail message T

study vocab. p.170 W

p.172-173, 4-5-6 R

chat F

Sep.6 Cap. 6 ch.5 workbook due T

Memorize one dialog from fotonovela, p. 174-175 W

movie “My family”

rent it or watch it in the language lab R

p. 176, 1-2, 3 F

Sep.13 Cap.6 Bring movie report M

e-mail message T

study preterite, ps. 178-79

inténtalo, p. 179 W

p.180,1-2-3C R

p. 183, inténtalo

chat room F

Sep.20 Cap. 7 187, inténtalo M

e-mail message T

Study vocab.200-201 W

Workbook , cap.6 F

Sep.27 Cap. 7 p. 202, 4-5 M

e-mail message T

Study one dialog, ps.204-5 W

Inténtalo, p. 209

p. 210, 1-2 R

chat F

Oct.4 Cap. 7 p.210,3 M

E-mail message T

p.213 inténtalo W

p. 214, 1-2 R

p. 216, inténtalo ,

Review for quiz at home (hand-outs) F

Oct.11 Cap. 8 Quiz 1 M

p. 219, inténtalo,220,1-2 T

p. 233,2-3 W

p.237,8 R

workbook, cap.7 F

Oct.18 Cap.8 study one dialog, ps. 238-9 M

e-mail T

p. 240, 1-2-3 W

inténtalo, p. 246 R

p. 247, 1-2 chat F

Oct.25 Cap. 8 oral presentations

e-mail T

oral presentations W

oral presentations R

p. 255, inténtalo

p.256, 1-2-3 chat F

Nov.1 Cap. 8-9 p.258 inténtalo M

e-mail message T

ps 271,2-3 W

lab book 8 R

chat F

Nov.8 Cap.9 quiz 2 M

p. 276, 1-2-3 W

p. 281, inténtalo R

ps. 282-83, 1-2-3

chat F

Nov. 15 Cap.9 p. 284, inténtalo M

p.286 inténtalo 287, 1 W

p. 289, corregir, identificar R

workbook, ch.9 F

Nov.22 Oral interviews prep. M

Nov. 29 oral interviews M

Oral interviews W

Oral interviews R

chat F

Dec.6 Quiz 2 (Monday)

Department of Modern Languages

General Education Syllabus Attachment – 2004-2005  

According to ESU's catalogue, the purpose of General Education is the following:  

Emporia State University is committed to providing a liberal education for all its students.  One important component of this liberal education is the completion of all designated general education requirements.  This general education core curriculum is the heart of the college experience at ESU and is integral to the student's major program.  The goals of this general education program reflect the mission of this institution and are common to all student programs, regardless of majors and career goals.  The general education curriculum provides the intellectual background and skills necessary to be ‘an educated person,' as it improves and enhances quality of life.

As a result of completing the general education program, graduates of Emporia State University will be knowledgeable of our pluralistic society; be able to think with breadth and comprehension, to communicate effectively, to understand what it means to be human, and to function with skill and knowledge in the everyday world.  

Some of the goals of General Education at Emporia State University include

*   developing proficiency in written and oral communication

*   learning to make connections between disciplines

*   thinking critically and analyzing issues

*   understanding cultural diversity in the contemporary world

*   increasing students' awareness and acceptance of similarities and contrasts in people of different cultures, nationalities, religions, ethnicities and genders,     

*  developing a commitment to intellectual curiosity, lifelong learning and the life skills necessary to function as effective citizens.  

In the department of Foreign Languages, we believe that introductory language and culture courses address each one of these goals.   

*   Learning a new language goes beyond conjugating verbs.  It is also discovering the geography, history, art, literature, politics, music, cinema, and daily life of people around the world; this makes it the perfect course for drawing connections between the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences.   

*   Learning a new language and discovering the cultures in which that language is spoken will develop students'cultural sensitivity to other nationalities, religions and ethnicities.   

*   Learning a new language also teaches students to think critically about and to analyze their own culture while it develops their written and oral skills in English and beyond.      

*   Finally, in our modern world, "globalization" is no longer simply a catch-phrase, but a reality: what more useful life skill is there for effective citizens than our ability to communicate–in their own language--with the citizens of the world?   

We hope you agree that learning a new language is both fun and an essential component of being an educated person.  

Department of Foreign Languages

Syllabus Attachment 2004-2005  
 

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY POLICY  

At Emporia State University, academic dishonesty is a basis for disciplinary action.  Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to activities such as cheating and Plagiarism (presenting as one's own the intellectual or creative accomplishments of another without giving credit to the source or sources).  

The faculty member in whose course or under whose tutelage an act of academic dishonesty occurs has the option of failing the student for the academic hours in question and may refer the case to other academic personnel for further action.  Emporia State University may impose penalties for academic dishonesty up to and including expulsion from the university.  
 

DISABILITY SERVICES  

Emporia State University will make reasonable accommodations for persons with documented disabilities.  Students need to contact the Director of Disability Services and the professor as early in the semester as possible to ensure that classroom and academic accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.  All communication between students, Disability Services, and the professor will be strictly confidential.        
 

FACULTY INITIATED STUDENT WITHDRAWAL

If a student's absences from class or disruptive behavior become detrimental to the student's progress or that of the other students in the class, the faculty member shall attempt to contact the student in writing about withdrawing from the class and shall seek the aid of the office of the Vice President of Student Affairs to help insure contacting the student. The office of the Vice President of Student Affairs shall provide the student information about the existing appeals procedures. Upon receiving a written report from the faculty member, the Vice President of Student Affairs may initiate a student withdrawal from the class. None of the above implies or states that faculty members are required to initiate the student withdrawals for excessive absence.  

GRADING

Effective with the spring 1999 semester all faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages will utilize the plus/minus grading system for undergraduate and graduate courses.

No A+ will be used.

A = 4,  A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3, B- = 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2, C- = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D = 0.7

And F = 0