Course Description: Reviews all phases of communication skills with practice in understanding, speaking, and writing grammatically correct Spanish. Teaches specific components of Spanish grammar: the Spanish verbal system, the subjunctive, ser versus estár, and other problematic aspects of grammar. Taught in Spanish.
Course Narrative: This course is the continuation of SPAN 313 and it is here that we observe in more detail the prescriptive and descriptive linguistics in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain. This is learned through both rules and the variations of each, since it is discovered that although many regions "break" the prescriptive rules they follow a type of pattern to justify their linguistic selections. On the other hand, we put into practice new terminology regarding bilingualism and phenomena that occur between it. Due to the contact of languages, connections are created to be able to use both languages and thus be able to obtain a more effective version of both languages. Although this class gives an open space to show our own linguistic identity, it also shows the racism and extremism of many single speakers by discriminating certain dialects reproaching them for being incorrect and uneducated. For this class we work in a group essay where we expose different phenomenon as: subject pronouns, the subjunctive, ser y estár and, code switching. This was done through a video where singer-songwriter Pitbull is interviewed. Here are exposed both the prescriptive and descriptive rules and the Caribbean patterns to which the singer clings throughout the interview. This class taught me to understand and analyze the why of certain selections and to avoid linguistic segregation towards my future students and show respect for the diversity of languages and dialects within it. Also show the importance of bilingualism and multilingualism, since it is and will be a very important tool in the future. Finally, we are proud of our own linguistic roots and put them into practice whenever we can, since they are not errors but different patterns that have been regularized by our dialectal region.
Course Narrative: This course is the continuation of SPAN 313 and it is here that we observe in more detail the prescriptive and descriptive linguistics in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain. This is learned through both rules and the variations of each, since it is discovered that although many regions "break" the prescriptive rules they follow a type of pattern to justify their linguistic selections. On the other hand, we put into practice new terminology regarding bilingualism and phenomena that occur between it. Due to the contact of languages, connections are created to be able to use both languages and thus be able to obtain a more effective version of both languages. Although this class gives an open space to show our own linguistic identity, it also shows the racism and extremism of many single speakers by discriminating certain dialects reproaching them for being incorrect and uneducated. For this class we work in a group essay where we expose different phenomenon as: subject pronouns, the subjunctive, ser y estár and, code switching. This was done through a video where singer-songwriter Pitbull is interviewed. Here are exposed both the prescriptive and descriptive rules and the Caribbean patterns to which the singer clings throughout the interview. This class taught me to understand and analyze the why of certain selections and to avoid linguistic segregation towards my future students and show respect for the diversity of languages and dialects within it. Also show the importance of bilingualism and multilingualism, since it is and will be a very important tool in the future. Finally, we are proud of our own linguistic roots and put them into practice whenever we can, since they are not errors but different patterns that have been regularized by our dialectal region.
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