Academic Year/course:
2018/19
27962 - Second Language I(Catalán)
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
27962 - Second Language I(Catalán)
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
426 - Degree in Classics
579 - Degree in Classics
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Basic Education
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
The methodology followed in this course is oriented towards the achievement of the learning objectives. It follows a functional-communicative methodology that uses various audiovisual documents and journalistic and literary texts students will be able to improve their knowledge about day-to-day Catalan life and culture, while focussing on grammatical contents. A wide range of teaching and learning tasks are implemented, such as lectures, practice sessions, autonomous work, study and assessment tasks.
Students are expected to participate actively in class throughout the semester.
Further information regarding the course will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
The course includes the following learning tasks:
- Lectures.
- Practice sessions.
- Autonomous work and study.
- Assessment tasks.
4.3. Syllabus
The course will address the following topics:
Lectures (22.5 hours: 0.9 ECTS)
- Functional questions:
- a) Personal information (about oneself and about third parties);
- b) Locations (of people and places);
- c) Actions, activities and events.
- Grammatical questions:
- a) Phonetic aspects concerning vowels and consonants (neutral vowels, o/u neutralisation, the pronunciation of the open and closed “e”, the pronunciation of the open and closed “o”, the silent “s” and the voiced “s”, palatal sounds) and their influence on orthography,
- b) Orthographic marks. Accentuation. Diaeresis;
- c) The gender and number of nouns and adjectives;
- d) Demonstratives and possessives;
- e) Personal pronouns (general questions);
- f) Aspects concerning verbs (conjugations, inchoative verbs, the periphrastic perfect);
- g) Use of prepositions.
Practice sessions (22.5 hours: 0.9 ECTS)
- a) Grammatical and lexical activities from various educational viewpoints to practice the contents covered in the theoretical classes;
- b) Oral comprehension activities (escolta i...), songs;
- c) Written comprehension activities (Reading and multiple-choice or true/false exercises to check understanding);
- d) Oral production activities (role play exercises, interviews, etc.);
- e) Written production activities (writing of various kinds of short texts: letters, notes, simple descriptions, etc.).