Course description
SPAN 395- Special Topics
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts in Spanish Applied Linguistics, with the goal of preparing students to teach Spanish as a second language. The following topics will be examined: second language acquisition, the teaching and learning of languages (including language teaching methodologies), pragmatics, and sociolinguistic variation.
Units: 4
SPAN 395- Special Topics
This course provides an introduction to basic concepts in Spanish Applied Linguistics, with the goal of preparing students to teach Spanish as a second language. The following topics will be examined: second language acquisition, the teaching and learning of languages (including language teaching methodologies), pragmatics, and sociolinguistic variation.
Units: 4
This course showed me more than just classroom work. This course really showed me how little I knew about the world and help me understand a bit more about how the world works. For example, there is no single language that it right or the only one that can be taught in the classrooms around the world. Every language makes us and creates an identity for us as an individual. That is something that one can take from us and we should be proud of where we come because we are able to share a little piece of us to the rest of the world. For that reason, for us who plan to be an educator for instance a teacher. it is something we should take into consideration that their will students that might from across the world and we will have to understand that their culture and traditions are different, and it would be up to us to try and help them adjust to the new culture. For that instance, we would have to understand that sometimes people would express themselves in a certain way and then what we are used to. For example, one word can have one significance for us but for other cultures it can mean a whole different thing. Due to this we have to be careful and do not judge the students or other people in the real world when we communicate with someone. I was able share what I learned from this course in a slide show to the class as if I was the professor. You can see this slide show here (Los Estandares). After my presentation I had a better feeling of what it would be to be a teacher and a gave me a great feeling because I showed me it was something I could do as career. Because of this class I think I have made the right choice of being perusing the career of a teacher.