Course Description
Reviews all phases of communication skills with practice in understanding, speaking, and writing grammatically correct Spanish. Teaches specific components of Spanish grammar: the Spanish verbal system, the subjunctive, ser versus estar, and other problematic aspects of grammar. For students planning to teach Spanish.
Reviews all phases of communication skills with practice in understanding, speaking, and writing grammatically correct Spanish. Teaches specific components of Spanish grammar: the Spanish verbal system, the subjunctive, ser versus estar, and other problematic aspects of grammar. For students planning to teach Spanish.
Reflective Narrative
In this course I learned about the importance of speaking and writing grammatically correct in Spanish. This course also challenged me to expand my knowledge about the Spanish language beyond what I had learned as a native speaker, because I had to correct many of my colloquial vocabulary that I learned as a child.
One of the main objectives of this course was to learn the difference between prescriptive grammar (the correct way) and descriptive grammar (no right or wrong). This was a bit challenging for me because I had learned Spanish outside an academic setting, therefore, being able to distinguish between these two differences was not easy.
Throughout the semester, we were assigned text book exercises, many which included past tense verbs conjugations and identifying gender nouns, as well as making a distinction between grammatical structures in English and in Spanish. In addition to having daily assignments, we were required to write a few composition essays. The professor read, made corrections and returned our essays so that we could identify our errors and observe which aspects of grammar we needed to practice. Here on this page, you will find a composition essay that was assigned at the beginning of the semester.
In this course I learned about the importance of speaking and writing grammatically correct in Spanish. This course also challenged me to expand my knowledge about the Spanish language beyond what I had learned as a native speaker, because I had to correct many of my colloquial vocabulary that I learned as a child.
One of the main objectives of this course was to learn the difference between prescriptive grammar (the correct way) and descriptive grammar (no right or wrong). This was a bit challenging for me because I had learned Spanish outside an academic setting, therefore, being able to distinguish between these two differences was not easy.
Throughout the semester, we were assigned text book exercises, many which included past tense verbs conjugations and identifying gender nouns, as well as making a distinction between grammatical structures in English and in Spanish. In addition to having daily assignments, we were required to write a few composition essays. The professor read, made corrections and returned our essays so that we could identify our errors and observe which aspects of grammar we needed to practice. Here on this page, you will find a composition essay that was assigned at the beginning of the semester.