

Modern Spanish Theater (4 units)Ĭourse Description: Forgetfulness is full of memory, the title of one of Jerónimo López Mozo´s plays, can synthesize the ways in which the recent Spanish past survives in the present.


The course will be conducted primarily in Spanish through lectures, videos, individual, and group activities. Register and genre pedagogy: Inclusion of materials in the classroom setting pertaining to the cultural and literary contributions of main Spanish-speaking groups in the U.S. Teaching effective communicative skills in Spanish in the Interpersonal, Interpretative and Presentational modes. First and second language acquisition process. Course content includes: a review of the cultural diversity of the main Spanish-speaking populations in the United States: Chicanos/ Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans/ Neoricans, Cuban-Americans, Central Americans and other Latino communities who live in the United States. and on applied language teaching methodologies in the context of teaching Spanish to heritage speakers at different levels. The course will focus on the cultural diversity of the main Spanish speaking populations in the U.S. Teaching Spanish as a Native Tongue in the US: Praxis and Theory (4 units)Ĭourse Description: Especially designed for students who are interested in teaching Spanish to heritage speakers. Guitart, Sonido y Sentido: Teoría y Práctica de la Pronunciación del Español con Audio CD (Georgetown University Press, 2004) Prerequisite: Linguistics 001 and Spanish 024 or 033. The course is of particular interest to prospective teachers seeking to formalize their understanding of the Spanish and English sound systems in order to assist future students with issues of pronunciation. Students will explore in a systematic and formal manner the similarities and differences between the sound systems of Spanish and English, with attention given to dialectal differences that exist among major varieties of Spanish spoken around the world. Spanish Pronunciation (4 units)Ĭourse Description: This course focuses on the phonetics and phonology of modern Spanish varieties.

Prerequisite: Linguistics 001 and Spanish 024 or Spanish 033, or consent of instructor. Throughout the course, theoretical and practical comparisons will be made with English and other Romance Languages as appropriate. The course also introduces generative phonology, which permits a deeper understanding of systematic, rule-governed nature of sound patterns.
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By exploring the structuralist notions of phoneme versus allophone, complementary distribution versus free variation, and contrast versus neutralization, we will see how sounds are organized and represented as part of the linguistic competence of Spanish speakers. After an initial overview of the goals of contemporary linguistic theory, we will explore how speech sounds are produced from an articulatory point of view.
