SPAN 395: Spanish Applied Linguistics
Course description:
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts in Spanish Applied Linguistics, with the goal of preparing students to teach Spanish as a second language. The following topics will be examined: second language acquisition, the teaching and learning of languages (including language teaching methodologies), pragmatics, and sociolinguistic variation.
Extra Notes: This course does not have a direct link to course description, as it is subject to change each semester.
This course meets MLO2
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts in Spanish Applied Linguistics, with the goal of preparing students to teach Spanish as a second language. The following topics will be examined: second language acquisition, the teaching and learning of languages (including language teaching methodologies), pragmatics, and sociolinguistic variation.
Extra Notes: This course does not have a direct link to course description, as it is subject to change each semester.
This course meets MLO2
Course Reflective Narrative:
In this course we explored the basic concepts of linguistics with different approaches, all with the goal of preparing Spanish major future instructors or professionals within the knowledge of the language. The first approach to the three outcomes of this course and completion of the MLO 2, was through a thorough examination of articles. The articles consisted on comparing and contrasting the methodologies used by instructors, to help second language learners to acquire the target language (second language). As far as, pragmatics and sociolinguistics variation topics, like so, were learned through articles and presentation given in class. One of the many strategies that our professor utilized, were videos and articles that allowed for the representation of each topic, but one that stood out the most was: sociolinguistics variation. An inspiring and surprising detail learned in the analysis of this topic, was that variation means there is more than one way of speaking Spanish. The fact that, the variety of Spanish versions spoken, such as: formal, non-formal, dialect or regionalism use: being considered correct; motivated me to value my flaws in Spanish. This aspect of motivation and self-esteem, was also covered in Span 303. This course and Span 303, precisely interlink in the point where there is no need to feel bad of our use of language, instead to embrace it and see how it can help acquire a "better" Spanish. My contribution to the comprehension of all topics and outcomes of this subject, is seen in a presentation, where I preformed a deep analysis on an article that provided insight an all, with focus on teaching/learning language and the methodologies to acquire it. I plan to further explore these topics, as I polish my teaching philosophy: a document created to submit in every job application, dealing with a position as an instructor.
In this course we explored the basic concepts of linguistics with different approaches, all with the goal of preparing Spanish major future instructors or professionals within the knowledge of the language. The first approach to the three outcomes of this course and completion of the MLO 2, was through a thorough examination of articles. The articles consisted on comparing and contrasting the methodologies used by instructors, to help second language learners to acquire the target language (second language). As far as, pragmatics and sociolinguistics variation topics, like so, were learned through articles and presentation given in class. One of the many strategies that our professor utilized, were videos and articles that allowed for the representation of each topic, but one that stood out the most was: sociolinguistics variation. An inspiring and surprising detail learned in the analysis of this topic, was that variation means there is more than one way of speaking Spanish. The fact that, the variety of Spanish versions spoken, such as: formal, non-formal, dialect or regionalism use: being considered correct; motivated me to value my flaws in Spanish. This aspect of motivation and self-esteem, was also covered in Span 303. This course and Span 303, precisely interlink in the point where there is no need to feel bad of our use of language, instead to embrace it and see how it can help acquire a "better" Spanish. My contribution to the comprehension of all topics and outcomes of this subject, is seen in a presentation, where I preformed a deep analysis on an article that provided insight an all, with focus on teaching/learning language and the methodologies to acquire it. I plan to further explore these topics, as I polish my teaching philosophy: a document created to submit in every job application, dealing with a position as an instructor.