Advanced Conversation

Catalog description

Intensive practice in speaking Spanish about topics of personal and general interest. Emphasis will be placed on the development and improvement of the functional language skills needed for interpersonal communication and academic presentations at the advanced level according to the Oral Proficiency Guidelines of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. These include the ability to: narrate and describe in all major time frames; answer questions orally in discourse chunks of at least a paragraph in length; and use communicative strategies such as circumlocution. Assignments will be mostly oral in nature, but will also include grammar review and vocabulary enrichment. Required for majors. Not open to native speakers of Spanish.