Teaching Spanish

Catalog description

An introduction to the field of Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching. Special attention will be given to topics that have proved most problematic for native speakers of English who learn Spanish as a second language. After a general overview of Applied Linguistics, the course will cover topics dealing with teaching situations. This course is a theoretical and practical review of how to teach writing, reading, communicative competence, listening comprehension and culture at all levels of Spanish study.