Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Spanish 213A is a second-year level course designed to improve student’s ability to converse in Spanish. It provides opportunity to practice the structures and vocabulary students have encountered or are encountering in their second-year Spanish course. This course is a good review course for students who wish to prepare for further study in Spanish or for those traveling to a Spanish-speaking country. This is a three-credit transferable course, and it counts as an elective for the associate degrees.

The student:

• Initiates, sustains and brings to a close a number of basic, uncomplicated communicative exchanges.
• Creates with the language by combining language elements in discrete sentences and string of sentences.
• Recognizes and appreciates linguistic and cultural diversity within the Hispanic world.

Students will be assessed by any combination of the following:

• Active participation in class
• Interactive student role-plays
• Individual and groups presentation
• Oral interviews with partners or instructor

Include all or most of the following:

• Education and job search
• Art, music and movies
• Technology
• Talking about the future and conditions: the future and conditional tenses
• The subjunctive in present, imperfect and pluperfect

Competencies and Skills

The student:

• Manages personal interaction in predictable settings.
• Discusses activities in present with accuracy, and in past tense with difficulty.
• Uses commands and subjunctive in mostly memorized phrases.
• Recognizes and appreciates cultural and linguistic differences in the Spanish speaking world.
• Comprehends native speech in a contextualized setting.
• Makes herself/himself understood by native speaker unaccustomed to dealing with non-native speakers.