COURSE SYLLABUS



COURSE SYLLABUS

Spanish 220 Section 010

MWF 1:00 – 1:50; BK 215

Fall 2009

Dr. Christine Coleman Núñez

Office: 19 DeFrancesco Bldg.

Phone: 683-4429

E-mail: nunez@kutztown.edu

Website:

Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:00, MF 12:00-1:00, and by appointment

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS:

Whitley, M. Stanley. 2002. Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in

Spanish Linguistics, 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University.

Teschner, Richard V. 1999. Camino Oral: Fonética, fonología y práctica

de los sonidos del español, 2nd ed. N.Y.: McGraw-Hill. (selections on reserve)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

|Introduction to general linguistics, emphasizing the practical application of the basic structural and phonetic patterns of Spanish to |

|language teaching. Students will be introduced to the fundamental principals of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language |

|acquisition, foreign language acquisition, foreign language methodology, sociolinguistics and neurolinguistics. (In Spanish.) |

|Prerequisites: SPA 212 or permission of instructor. |

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

• describe the general linguistic approach to the study of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics

• identify the basic contrastive linguistic features of Spanish and English, in particular:

o physiological characteristics of individual speech sounds (phonetics)

o the systematic role of distinct speech sounds and natural classes of sounds (phonology)

o the internal structure and organization of words (morphology)

o rules governing the combination of words to form sentences (syntax)

o word and sentence meaning (semantics)

• identify the aspects of the Spanish linguistic system that are problematic for English-speaking students

• explain how to apply linguistic insights to language instruction

• describe language variation within the Spanish-speaking world

Students will accomplish these objectives through daily reading assignments, class lectures and small group discussions, and by application of the methods of linguistic analysis to problem solving activities in Spanish and other languages.

GRADING POLICY:

A. Calculation of final grade:

-Weekly assessments 50%

-Final Exam 15%

-Assignments 20%

-Class Participation 15%

B. There will an assessment of your progess each week; a list of dates and descriptions will be distributed separately. Students who miss an assessment will receive a (0), except in the case of a documented emergency which prevents him/her from attending the university. Students requesting to make-up work need to contact me immediately to make arrangements and provide valid written documentation upon request. If you anticipate missing class due to a pre-scheduled event, it is your responsibility to request to do the work in advance of the scheduled date. Please see “Attendance Policy” section for information on excused absences.

C. The final exam will be comprehensive.

D. A specific assignment list for each lesson will be distributed separately. Students are expected to come to each class prepared to hand-in all assignments, which should be neatly written or typed on a loose sheet of paper containing no other notes or information. Assignments will be collected at random, and late assignments will not be accepted. Students who are unable to attend class should make alternative arrangements to submit their assignments on or before the due date. E-mail submissions will be accepted, but they must be in Microsoft Word, .rtf or .pdf format. An assessment rubric for assignments will be distributed separately.

E. I evaluate class participation on a daily basis, according to the following scale:

0 absent, significantly late for class or left class early; or disruptive, distracted, doing other assignments during class time, etc.

1 attended entire class session; little or no participation

2 moderate amount of participation; quality of participation is fair to good

3 well prepared for class; full participation in a wide range of activities; quality of participation is outstanding

At the conclusion of the semester, I will calculate your class participation grade based on the total of these daily scores. Your daily participation score will also reflect your participation in small group activities in class. In addition to participation points, the following attendance policy will be enforced:

Attendance Policy: Students are expected to attend all classes. Absence from class due to a medical emergency or participation in a University sanctioned event may be considered “excused” on condition that the student provide appropriate documentation. Students are encouraged to read the Health and Wellness Center’s procedure for medical excuses in the Key which states that the Center will provide an excuse “if the illness is of such a nature that class attendance is not medically advised.” An absence will be considered unexcused without appropriate documentation. Please note that “excused” absences are at the discretion of the professor and do not include: making up work for another class, meeting with your advisor, registering for classes, attending housing meetings, aiding a friend or family member, routine doctor visits, etc. If you make a personal choice to miss class for these reasons, it will be considered an unexcused absence and you will not be permitted to make up graded work done in class or hand in late assignments. You may, however, hand in any work before it is due. Arrangements to make up work will be made for students who participate in University events that require them to miss class (athletics, field trips, conferences, etc.) provided that those arrangements are made in advance of the missed class and students provide the appropriate documentation.

→ More than 3 unexcused absences will result in the lowering of the final grade for the course by one letter grade. Thereafter, the final grade will be lowered by one additional letter grade for every 2 additional unexcused absences. The following table illustrates the attendance policy:

|NUMBER OF UNEXCUSED ABSENCES |EFFECT ON FINAL GRADE |

|4 or 5 |grade earned lowered one letter grade |

|6 or 7 |grade earned lowered two letter grades |

|8 or 9 |grade earned lowered three letter grades |

|10 or more |student receives letter grade of “F” |

OTHER

A. Please read about academic honesty in the College Catalog. If you work with a friend who speaks Spanish or with a tutor, please note that he/she may underline or circle your mistakes and describe the kind of error present, however, he/she may not correct or replace what you have written with other words. Work that has been written, corrected and rewritten, or translated by someone else is unacceptable and constitutes plagiarism.

B. Students are encouraged to bring to my attention any issues that they believe will affect their performance in this course as early as they become aware of them. Every attempt will be made to accommodate the special needs of individual students. Disability Disclosure Statement: Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the instructor privately to discuss the specific situation as soon as possible. Contact Disability Resources and Services to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

Week 1: 9/2-9/4 Introduction to linguistic theory

Week 2: 9/7-9/11 No class Monday 9/7

Follow Monday schedule 9/8

Unit 1 – Introduction to phonetics

Week 3: 9/14-9/18 Unit 1 – Phonemes

Video – “Acquiring the Human Language”

Week 4: 9/21-9/25 Unit 1 – Application of phonological theory to pronunciation

Week 5: 9/28-10/2 Unit 1 – Application of phonological theory to pronunciation

Week 6: 10/5-10/9 Unit 2 – Verb morphology

Week 7: 10/12-10/16 No class Monday 10/12 – Columbus Day Holiday

Unit 2 – Verb morphology

Week 8: 10/19-10/23 Unit 3 – Noun phrase syntax and morphology

Week 9: 10/26-10/30 Unit 3 – Noun phrase syntax and morphology

Week 10: 11/2-11/6 Unit 3 – Pronouns

Week 11: 11/9-11/13 Unit 3 – Pronouns

Unit 3 – Adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions

Week 12: 11/16-11/20 Unit 3 – Adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions

Week 13: 11/23-11/27 Unit 4 – Words and their meanings

No class Wednesday 11/25 or Friday 11/27

Week 14: 11/30-12/24 Unit 4 – Words and their meanings

Week 15: 12/7-12/11 Review

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 16 at 8:00a.m.

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