Distance learning course - 25 hours.
Course Description:
It is a distance learning course based on multimedia materials that have been created and designed specially for this course by experts in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.
Participants practice the four language skills reading, speaking, listening and writing in an interactive way using the new technologies.
Target group:
Professional Spanish Online is a course aimed at those who wish to start studying Spanish in a Business context. It is a first approach to the language and the culture.
Course length:
The course consists of 5 units that are theme orientated. Each unit commands 3 hours of personal work and participants decide the speed at which they complete the course.
It also includes 10 hours of online work (real time) divided in 2 hours per week.
1 session with a personal Icelandic tutor (for example, doubts about certain points and feedback for the course).
1 session of real time practice with the Spanish native teacher for speaking and writing (through skype and chat room). These sessions will be held at the end of each unit.
Course structure:
All the units follow the same structure:
- Audiovisual material
- Listening activities
- Vocabulary activities
Grammar section through Audiovisual explanation (video-podcast)
Practical exercises
Pre- warming tasks in order to prepare the students for the online session. Each unit contains:
Target vocabulary, reading material, listening exercises, grammar exercises, writing tasks and a speaking tasks.
Sociocultural section called “cada día más”. Its purpose is to give the participants a deeper knowledge of the hispanoamerican society and culture.
Course content:
The course units will cover the following topics:
1. The first meeting:
Companies, products, sectors
¤ The Business card (for ex. To create their own business card in Spanish)
¤ Formal and informal treatment in the first meeting
¤ Telephone number/directions and and interpretate symbols: @, C/, Sr./
Cada día más: Hispanoamérica. History of a Company: Inca Cola.
2. A business meeting: así somos los islandeses y así somos los latinos (cultural contrast unit):
¤ Gustos y preferencias
¤ Así es mi país y mi región
¤ La familia
3. Cada día más: Spain. History of a success company: Zara
El día a día
¤ My agenda and plannification
¤ Dayly Routine
¤ Description of my work
¤ Hours/ part of the day/weekdays
Cada día más: Organizational chart of a company, positions and responsibilities.
4. The Business lunch:
¤ Los alimentos
¤ Las comidas del día.
¤ Horarios en España
¤ meals and Schedule in Spain
¤ Shopping list to organize a party.
Cada día más: The gastronomy in Spain: typical dishes; tapas; wine industry
5. Let´s talk about money:
¤ Salaries
¤ Banking and finance vocabulary
Cada día más: The growing of Spanish in the World. Second business language.
Language Areas: Vocabulary Building / Listening / Reading /Writing / Speaking.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, participants will have gained:
- A good grounding in the basic language of business
- Abbility to communicate in basic situations
- Deeper knowledge of the hispanomaerican society and business culture.
Course Material:
- Distance Learning Website
- Multimedia material package (includes video, practical exercises and grammar lessons also recorded in veio and pod cast).
Teaching Methods: Online message board / detailed schedule / individual feedback.
Course Duration:
The course will start 22 September - 20 October 2009. Online meetings take place through Skype on Mondays and Thusdays at 18:00 - 19:00.
The course is total 25 hours - 15 hours of personal work + 10 hours of online work.
Course Instructors are Pilar Concheiro and Ida Semmey. Spanish teachers and specialists in distance learning.
Price: 35.000.- kr.
Further information:
Auður Hrefna Guðmundsdóttir
Sími: 599 63 68
Tölvupóstur: audurhg@ru.is
www.fagmennt.is
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