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This version of SPAN 301 closed. To current version.
Delivery mode: Individualized study with audio/video components.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: SPAN 300 or equivalent.
Centre: Centre for Language and Literature
Télé-université du Québec
SPAN 301 has a Challenge for Credit option.
SPAN 301 consists of four integrated components: grammar, vocabulary, culture, and literature. The course is the continuation of SPAN 300. The emphasis is on learning grammar structures and on vocabulary acquisition. The aim of SPAN 301 is to strengthen both written and oral skills to enable students to communicate in a variety of contexts.
Each lesson of the main textbook ¡Continuemos! is integrated with the laboratory component of the course. The literary component consists of excerpts and short stories which are read mainly for aesthetic pleasure, comprehension, and vocabulary acquisition. Students are not expected to do any literary analysis exercises in this course.
Students acquire written and oral practice in each unit of SPAN 301 by doing many written and oral exercises not listed in this outline. "Literary readings" referred to below are generally adapted selections of excerpts from well-known authors. The Teleinforme is a short video clip based on the unit's theme.
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
To receive credit for SPAN 301, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the written examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
6 Written Exercises | 5 Oral Exercises | 2 Essays (5% each) | Oral Exam | Written Exam | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
15% | 10% | 10% | 15% | 50% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, Francisco Mena-Ayllón. 1995. ¡Continuemos! 5th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo. 1995. Workbook/Laboratory Manual for ¡Continuemos! 5th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel Lebredo, Francisco Mena-Ayllón. 1995. Aventuras literarias. 4th ed. D. C. Heath and Company.
The course materials include a student manual and an assignment manual.
Six audiotapes to be used as a laboratory component of the course in conjunction with the Workbook/Laboratory Manual; one videotape with the Teleinforme section for each lesson of ¡Continuemos!, and one audiotape with selected readings from Aventuras literarias .