| Course title | |||||
| Communication Skills for Scientists [Communication skill for Scientists] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | 1～4 | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 02t0111 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 梶 光一, 鈴木 馨 [KAJI Koichi, SUZUKI Kaoru] | |||||
| 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 basic conversations concerning daily life. 2. read and write elementary sentences based on the solid lexical and grammatical knowledge of Spanish. 3. have basic knowledge of the Spanish language and the Hispanic world. Competency Development: Intercultural Understanding, Global Awareness, Communication skills, Reading Comprehension skills |
| Course schedule |
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Week 1 About Spanish speaking countries, pronunciation. Week 2 Lesson 1: Orthography, vowels and consonants. Week 3 Lesson 1: Syllables, accent. Week 4 Lesson 2: Verb “ser”, gender of nouns. Week 5 Lesson 2: Verb “tener”, indefinite articles. Week 6 Lesson 3: Adjectives, accordance of gender and number. Week 7 Lesson 3: Verb “estar”, demonstrative adjectives. Week 8 Lesson 4: Regular verbs (-ar, -er, -ir). Week 9 Lesson 4: Verb “hay”, Cardinal numbers. Week 10 Lesson 5: Irregular verbs (poder and querer) Week 11 Lesson 5: Irregular verbs “hacer” and “saber”, direct object pronouns. Week 12 Lesson 6: Indirect object pronouns, verb “gustar” Week 13 Lesson 6: Irregular verbs “ir” and “dar” Week 14 Review from lesson 1 to lesson 6. Week 15 Wrap-up. Final exam. |
| 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 |
| Seiichi Aoto, ”Patio Espanol ―aprender a escribir en espanol desde cero―“, Asashi Press. |
| 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 proper understanding of the Hispanic culture that are required to learn through the course (70%). |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| If there are any problems, students are strongly advised to ask and solve them in class without leaving them unsolved. |
| Course keywords |
| Spanish, grammar, communicative skills (oral and written), Hispanic world |
| Office hours |
| Before/after the class or by e-mail. |
| Remarks 1 |
| Students are supposed to have a Spanish-Japanese dictionary. Either a paper dictionary or an electronic dictionary will do. |
| Remarks 2 |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Spanish |
| Last update |
| 4/2/2023 10:40:55 AM |