| Course title | |||||
| Communication Skills for Scientists [Communication skill for Scientists] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | 1～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01FL1007b | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 松尾 英俊 [MATSUO Hidetoshi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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Students will learn the basic vocabulary and grammar and the basic communicative skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of Spanish. Toward this goal, students need to take both “Spanish I” and “Spanish II” in the same year. This course is offered as the first part of the two-part Spanish language course of the Global Language and Cultural Studies. |
| Expected Learning |
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Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to: 1. have conversations in everyday life. 2. have a basic knowledge on the Spanish grammar and vocabulary. 3. read and write simple sentences. 4. be familiar with the diversity the Hispanic world. Competency Development: Intercultural Understanding, Global Awareness, Communication skills, Reading Comprehension skills |
| Course schedule |
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Week 1 Orientation. Lesson 1: Pronunciation and orthography. Week 2 Lesson 1: Greetings and self introduction. Week 3 Lesson 2: Gender and number of nouns. Indefinite and definite articles. Week 4 Lesson 2: Cardinal numbers (0-29). Existential. Week 5 Lesson 3: Subjective pronouns. Verb “ser”. Adjectives. Week 6 Lesson 3: Negatives. Interrogatives. Week 7 Mini test. Lesson 4,5: Regular verbs. Possessives (unstressed). Week 8 Lesson 4: Expressions about frequency. Days of week. Week 9 Lesson 5: Time expressions. Week 10 Lesson 6: Demonstratives. Verb “estar”. Week 11 Lesson 6: Distinction of verbs ser, estar, and hay. Cardinal numbers (30-999) Week 12 Mini test. Lesson 7: Direct objective pronouns. Verbs “saber” and “conocer”. Week 13 Lesson 7: Irregular verbs (irregular first singular form), Week 14 Review about the verbs. Week 15 Wrap-up. |
| Prerequisites |
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It is desirable to take the classes of “Spanish II” and “Spanish for Intercultural Understanding” to acquire comprehensively the basic skill of the language. Students are recommended to spend 45 minutes in preparing for each class, and another 45 minutes in completing assignments and revising the class. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Shinomiya, Mizue et al. (2022) "!Accion! Primeros pasos" Hakusuisha. |
| References |
| Instructions on the references will be provided at the first class. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Class participation will be assessed by active contribution to class activities (15%). Mini quizzes will be given after finishing every two or three lessons to assess students’ communicative skill (15%). In Final exam students must show that they have learned interactive skills based on a proper understanding of the Hispanic culture that are required to learn through the course (70%). |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Students are expected to concentrate on the tasks in class. |
| Course keywords |
| Spanish, grammar, communicative skills (oral and written), Hispanic world |
| Office hours |
| Before/after the class or by e-mail. fw0608@go.tuat.ac.jp |
| Remarks 1 |
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Students must access have access to Google Classroom to hand in tasks and to get materials. Google Classroomクラスコード lpocbah |
| Remarks 2 |
| Related URL |
| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Spanish |
| Last update |
| 4/14/2023 9:02:03 AM |