Spanish 241.001
Spanish for Heritage Speakers I
Department of Modern Languages
TR 2:00-3:15 pm Ferguson 174
Professor: Nora Vivas
Office: LAN 253
Office Hours: MWF 9:00-11:00, TR 10:00-11:00, and by appointment
Email: vivasn@sfasu.edu
Phone: 468-2260
Textbook(s):
Nuestro idioma, nuestra herencia: Español para hispanohablantes, McGrawHill, 2011 and Manual de actividades que acompaña Nuestro idioma, nuestra
herencia: Español para hispanohablantes. ISBN: 0073385263
Course Description: Spanish for Heritage Speakers I (SPAN 2313) - Development of
oral and literacy skills with emphasis on academic discourse, and understanding of
different levels of formality of Spanish, for native and heritage speakers of Spanish.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
Grading:
Participación: 50 puntos
Tarea: 150 puntos
Publicidad: 50 puntos
Composiciones: 2x100=200 puntos
Presentación oral: 100 puntos
Proyecto final en grupo: 100 puntos
Examen de medio semestre: 150 puntos
Examen final: 200 puntos
Total: 1000 puntos
Letter grades will be assigned according to the following scale:
900-1000 A
800-899 B
700-799 C
600-699 D
0-599 F
Assignments Descriptions:
Participación: While attendance is mandatory, you will only receive full participation
points if you are present, on time, prepared, remain for the entire class, you are engaged
in your learning and actively participate in class activities while being respectful and
attentive to others. CELL PHONES are NOT permitted in class; they must be turned
off and put away before class begins. Texting, emailing, or engaging in any other kind
of distraction from class activities, such as working on homework during class time, will
result in you being counted as absent for the day and therefore unable to earn
participation points.
Tarea: All of the activities corresponding to the lessons covered are assigned in the
Manual de actividades. They are to be completed by the due date in order to receive
credit for them. Notice that if you miss a deadline you may still get the practice to better
prepare you for class work and exams, but you will not get the homework credit.
Completion of your workbook assignments accounts for 20% of your final grade.
The sections of Lecturas culturales require out-of-class online research on a cultural topic
and answer specific questions. You will print your answers and bring them to class, in
order to share them in small groups and engage in discussion to encourage critical
thinking.
Publicidad: In pairs, you will produce either a promotional ad/poster/brochure/website,
or an innovative product or service. It will be submitted via Blackboard under
Discussions. More details will be provided by your instructor.
Composiciones: Students will write two compositions during this semester of about 250300 words. They must be typed, doubled spaced, 12 pt font, using diacritical marks (á, é,
í, ó, ú, ñ, ¡!, ¿?), and must be submitted via Turnitin.com through a link on Blackboard.
Compositions will reflect grammatical structures and vocabulary learned in class. Each
will show the three- step process of writing: pre-writing, drafting, and editing. The
workbook writing activities will be your starting points for them. The first composition
will be a biography of prominent Latinos, in which you will incorporate description and
narration. The second composition will be a persuasive text, in which you will present a
problem that affects a Hispanic community, define a course of action, and defend your
position.
Presentación oral: To further your ability to perform in Spanish and to demonstrate the
level of your linguistic proficiency, you will be required to make an individual 3 to 5
minutes oral presentation, which will be submitted via Blackboard under Discussions,
using a video recorder to record your narration. In it you will introduce yourself and give
your linguistic autobiography. You are also required to comment on at least three of your
classmates’ presentations. Your instructor will provide you with additional information
on the assignment.
Proyecto final en grupo: In groups of 3-5 you will work on a culminating project that
build on the knowledge you have gained over the course of the semester. You will need
to showcase register, grammar, vocabulary, and cultural information from the semester.
The instructor will provide further details.
Exámenes: There will be one midterm exam and one final exam on the material covered
in the course. Your grade will depend on the appropriateness of your register, grammar,
and vocabulary, and your knowledge of cultural material studied.
Instrucción suplementaria: In an effort to facilitate your academic success, the
Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC) and your instructor have made
arrangements to have a Supplemental Instruction Leader for this course. Supplemental
Instruction (SI) is an academic assistance program that utilizes peer-assisted study
sessions. SI sessions, facilitated by “SI leaders”, are weekly-scheduled, informal review
meetings in which students compare notes, discuss studied materials, develop
organizational tools, predict test items, and practice their Spanish language skills.
Students learn how to integrate course content and study skills while working together.
This is a service available to you at NO additional cost.
In order to encourage all students to attend SI sessions, your instructor has developed an
additional reward system. For each SI session you attend you will earn one point, which
can be applied toward a grade of your choice, up to three points per item. For example, if
at the end of the semester you earned 15 points, you may add three points to each of the
grades you earned on one of the compositions, the oral presentation, the promotional
product, the midterm, and the final.
Space is limited, so make sure you attend the sessions you signed up for as you may not
be able to attend another one right away.
Course Schedule:
Fecha
Plan de clase
Tuesday, August 30
Bienvenida al curso; presentación de
objetivos y materiales; presentación de
SI Leader
Capítulo 1
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Thursday,
September 1
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Tuesday, September
6
Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Thursday, September Capítulo 2
8
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
De gran importancia
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 1
Tuesday, September
13
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Thursday, September Lectura 3
15
Escritura
Negocios
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 2
Tuesday, September
20
Publicidad
Capítulo 3
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Thursday, September Lectura 2
22
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Tuesday, September
27
Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Thursday, September Capítulo 4
29
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Tuesday, October 4
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Thursday, October 6
Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 3
Composición I borrador:
Biografía (descripción y
narración)
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 4
Tuesday, October 11 Repaso Cap. 1-4
Thursday, October
13 Examen parcial: Capítulos 1-4
Tuesday, October 18 Capítulo 5
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Thursday, October
20
Presentación oral: autobiografía
lingüística
Composición I final: Biografía
(descripción y narración)
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Tuesday, October 25 Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Thursday, October
27
Capítulo 6
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Tuesday, November
1
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 5
Thursday, November Lectura 3
3
Escritura
Negocios
Tuesday, November
8
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 6
Capítulo 7
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Thursday, November Lectura 2
10
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Composición II borrador:
Exposición y argumentación
Tuesday, November
15
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 7
Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Thursday, November Capítulo 8
17
Lectura 1
Ortografía
Nuestro idioma
Tuesday, November
22
Lectura 2
Gramática
Personajes destacados
Tuesday, November
29
Lectura 3
Escritura
Negocios
Fecha límite para completar
tarea del capítulo 8
Thursday, December Repaso Cap. 4-8
1
Tuesday, December
6
Composición II final:
Exposición y argumentación
Presentación de proyectos finales
Thursday, December Presentación de proyectos finales
8
Thursday, December Examen final 1:00 pm-3:00pm
15 I. Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students will reactivate the
Spanish they have learned in the past and develop it further, will acquire literacy skills in
Spanish, and will augment their academic language proficiency in Spanish, ranging from
grammar and spelling and developing academic vocabulary in Spanish to learning how to
critically read and analyze a text, write academic texts, or acquire new information in
different academic content areas to be presented in formal settings.
Students will develop meta-linguistic awareness about the differences between the
standard Spanish and other varieties, thus developing the ability and confidence to use
their Spanish skill in academic, professional, and personal contexts.
Students will increase their knowledge of the Hispanic presence and legacy in the United
States and the world, developing a greater appreciation in their language and culture of
heritage.
II. Program Learning Outcomes for Majors:
1) Students will demonstrate the ability to engage in effective oral communication with
native speakers of the target language.
2) Students will analyze and summarize authentic texts in the target language.
3) Students will write effective, original compositions demonstrating the ability to
analyze, persuade and/or defend an opinion in the target language.
4) Students will apply critical thinking skills in comparisons of the cultures studied and
their own.
5) Students will, if seeking teacher certification, demonstrate mastery of professional
skills necessary to teach the target language.
6) Students will demonstrate mastery of linguistic and cultural skills necessary to pursue
graduate study and/or careers.
III. University Policies: Academic integrity is a responsibility of all university faculty
and students. Faculty members promote academic integrity in multiple ways including
instruction on the components of academic honesty, as well as abiding by university
policy on penalties for cheating and plagiarism.
IV. Definition of Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty includes both cheating
and plagiarism. Cheating includes but is not limited to (1) using or attempting to use
unauthorized materials to aid in achieving a better grade on a component of a class; (2)
the falsification or invention of any information, including citations, on an assigned
exercise; and/or (3) helping or attempting to help another in an act of cheating or
plagiarism. Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of another person as if they were
your own. Examples of plagiarism are (1) submitting an assignment as if it were one's
own work when, in fact, it is at least partly the work of another; (2) submitting a work
that has been purchased or otherwise obtained from an Internet source or another source;
and (3) incorporating the words or ideas of an author into one's paper without giving the
author due credit.
Please read the complete policy at
http://www.sfasu.edu/policies/academic_integrity.asp
V. Withheld Grades Semester Grades Policy (A-54): Ordinarily, at the discretion of
the instructor of record and with the approval of the academic chair/director, a grade of
WH will be assigned only if the student cannot complete the course work because of
unavoidable circumstances. Students must complete the work within one calendar year
from the end of the semester in which they receive a WH, or the grade automatically
becomes an F. If students register for the same course in future terms the WH will
automatically become an F and will be counted as a repeated course for the purpose of
computing the grade point average.
VI. Students with Disabilities: To obtain disability related accommodations, alternate
formats and/or auxiliary aids, students with disabilities must contact the Office of
Disability Services (ODS), Human Services Building, and Room 325, 468-3004 / 4681004 (TDD) as early as possible in the semester. Once verified, ODS will notify the
course instructor and outline the accommodation and/or auxiliary aids to be provided.
Failure to request services in a timely manner may delay your accommodations. For
additional information, go to http://www.sfasu.edu/disabilityservices/