This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This programme will be intended for students from any discipline who wish to do a Spanish wild-module at post intermediate level. This post intermediate module will be a follow-on module from Spanish Intermediate. It can also lead to the student taking the Intermediate Spanish Post-'A’ Level module the following year if desired. Students will consolidate their knowledge of Spanish. This module aims at improving the student’s reading and understanding skills. Students will develop the skills learnt in areas of environmental concern/ Social relevance and develop aural skills. The student will learn how to debate in a competent manner views on material of academic interest and perfect writing skills in Spanish by writing on themes of academic interest. The student will enhance active communicative competence in Spanish and further develop written expressive competence in Spanish through advanced study of Spanish syntax and grammar structures. The student will further develop reading speed, fluency and oral accuracy, and ability to interpret complex specialised Spanish texts over a wide range of registers and genres, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. This module will be of particular interest to any students wishing to widen their knowledge of Romance languages and culture and to those intending to spend time in Spanish-speaking countries.
2 hours per week
100% Coursework
Indicative Reading List
A Sánchez, Cumbre. Nivel medio. Libro del alumno (Madrid, SGEL)- Coursework book
A Sánchez, Cumbre. Nivel medio. Libro del alumno (Madrid, SGEL)- Students exercise book
A Sánchez, Cumbre. Nivel medio. Libro del alumno (Madrid, SGEL) - Audio CDS /Tapes
Spanish Easy Learning Dictionary; Paperback. Collins
501 Spanish Verbs; Paperback. Christopher Kendris, Theodore N. Kendris (Editor)
Collins Gem Spanish Dictionary (Collins Gem S.); Paperback. Harpercollins, Harper Collins
Spanish Phrase Book (BBC Phrase Book); Paperback. Philippa Goodrich, Carol Stanley
The Collins Spanish Dictionary (London, Collins) OR The Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Oxford, OUP).
The Oxford Spanish Grammar (Oxford, OUP).
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
Students will consolidate their knowledge of Spanish as taught at Global Scale B2.
This course aims at improving the student’s reading and understanding skills. Students will develop the skills learnt in the Spanish Intermediate course so that by the end of the course they can:
1. To consolidate expressions/ syntactical structures related to areas of environmental concern/ social relevance and develop aural skills;
2. To learn how to debate in a competent manner views on material of academic interest;
3. To perfect writing skills in Spanish by writing on themes of academic interest;
4. To enhance active communicative competence in Spanish;
5. Further develop written expressive competence in Spanish through advanced study of
Spanish syntax and grammar structures;
6. Further develop reading speed, fluency and oral accuracy, and ability to interpret complex specialised Spanish texts over a wide range of registers and genres, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation;
7. Further develop thematic framework for language study by analysing texts related to cultural and socio-linguistic Spanish issues.
This course will be of particular interest to any students wishing to widen their knowledge of Romance languages and to those intending to spend time in Spanish-speaking countries.
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