Communication Skills in Spanish (2235.YR.014801.1)
General information
Type: |
OPT |
Curs: |
3 |
Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
4 ECTS |
Teaching Staff:
Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
Year 3 |
Joaquin Boyero Merino |
Sección Español |
ESP |
Prerequisites
To take part in this course, students have to have a B2 level (CEFR) of Spanish or have successfully passed the Spanish for Professional Communication course.
Previous Knowledge
To take part in this course, students have to have a B2 level (CEFR) of Spanish or have successfully passed this level.
Workload distribution
Every class session includes activities to be carried out outside of class to help students assimilate the content through practice.
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
In an ever more globalised world business is not only undertaken at a regional level, or solely with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. As such versatile and multilingual communication skills are necessary along with a broad and varied cultural background.
Globalisation also affects the job market, there is ever greater competition and in the case of the students that come to ESADE the need to master Spanish is evidently important as it provides access to job markets in places such as in Latin America.
With regard to the programme, learning and mastery of Spanish will provide an opportunity for students to attend classes, lectures and work groups delivered in Spanish as well as interact with their peers without difficulties.
Course Learning Objectives
This Spanish language course focuses specifically on communication skills in global, political and economic context. ESADE thus offers programme participants the opportunity to carry out an advanced language course with two specific objectives: 1. Ensure that students improve their mastery of the language; and 2. Improve their confidence when using Spanish in global, political and economic context.
CONTENT
1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT - Make comparisons using complex structures. - Express conditions in the present, past and future. - Give advice and make suggestions. - Persuade and convince. - Organise written and spoken discourse. - Connect ideas in a text. - Structure ideas in specific texts. - Argue for and against an idea or opinion. - Summarise texts. - Give and follow complex instructions. - Clearly explain the stages of a process. - Delimit the scope of something. - Express different ways of doing something. - Express causes and reasons. - Express consequences.
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2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT - Comparative and concessive phrases. - Conditional phrases: impossible or improbable conditional, hypothetical conditional in the past. - Structues with the Subjunctive (Te sugeriría que..., lo mejor sería que + Imp. Subj.) - Reported speech: when the original message is expressed as an Imperative or in the Present Subjunctive. - Connectives: for challenging arguments (opposition, substitution, restriction, concession), comparisons and consecutive clauses (tan/tanto + que/como), conditionals. - Adversative, concessive, modal, causal and consecutive phrases. - Meta-textural discourse markets: to re-formulate (explanations, rectifications, creating distance), to reaffirm or emphasise, to remit, digressions.
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3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - History and society. - Politics and economy. - Art and advertising. - Communications media. - Literature and film. - Music. - Sport. - New technologies. - Formal, administrative and legal texts. - Professional studies and careers. - Festivities and celebrations.
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4. CULTURAL CONTENT - Social formulas in Spain and Latin America. - Folklore: typical objects, music, dance, festivals. - Compliments. - Stereotypes. - Set phrases and sayings. - Doing business in Spain and Latin American countries. - Humour. - Interjections.
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Methodology
The methodology of the language courses is the following:
- Participative classes, giving priority to the most communicative aspects.
- Greater emphasis on oral production through presentations, discussions and interactive tasks among students in a relaxed environment that promotes learning.
- Motivation of the student in class to encourage participation and learning.
Assessment criteria
The course assessment will take into consideration the aims established at the outset.
Assessment criteria for this course:
20% participation, 80% evaluated tasks and final exam.
If you do not comply with the attendance regulations, you are unable to take the final exam in your first sitting.
Students who do not sit the final exam or do not earn a minimum mark of 5 will not be able to pass and will have to re-sit the final.
Bibliography
Gramática de uso del español: teoría y práctica C1-C2. Editorial SM.
Timetable and sections
Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Year 3 |
Joaquin Boyero Merino |
Sección Español |
Timetable Year 3
From 2023/9/5 to 2023/11/28:
Each Tuesday from 11:30 to 13:30. (Except: 2023/10/31)
From 2024/2/13 to 2024/5/7:
Each Tuesday from 9:00 to 11:00. (Except: 2024/3/5 and 2024/3/26)
Tuesday 2024/5/14 from 8:30 to 10:30.
Thursday 2024/7/4 from 9:00 to 12:00.