Students taking this module require to have passed all Spanish language modules in Years 1 and 2 of the programme. Students who have not spent their year abroad in a Spanish-speaking country may take this module provided their language skills are at B2 on the CEFR overall, with a minimum of B1 in the productive skills of Speaking and Writing.
This module builds on the knowledge, experience and linguistic competence acquired by students during their previous study. The focus of the module is on the productive skills of Speaking and Writing with an increasing emphasis on linguistic accuracy, including phonetic accuracy, and professional text-production standards, including coherence, cohesion, formatting, textual organisation and use of register. It provides students with the opportunity to develop their Spanish language skills through a range of everyday professional tasks in a variety of contexts with a national, international and/or intercultural dimension.
The aims of this module are:
- To enable students to function professionally through the medium of Spanish in a range of professional contexts, at graduate entry level, which integrate their knowledge of the other subjects they have studied with their linguistic and communication skills in Spanish and English.
- To enable students to use Spanish effectively and appropriately in a range of professional settings appropriate to graduate entrants to a workplace in which Spanish is in use, either alone or with other languages, in a variety of national, international and intercultural contexts.
- To promote students’ critical thinking skills in a range of professional contexts with a national, international or intercultural dimension
- To heighten students’ awareness of intercultural differences in professional contexts in which Spanish, alone or with other languages, is in use.
This module is benchmarked at C1 on the CEFR. On successful completion of the module, students will normally be able to perform at that level in all four language skills. They may be able to perform at C2 Level on the CEFR in familiar contexts, such as those closely related to those that feature in the teaching programme, when they have sufficient time to prepare and access to appropriate reference materials.
The minimum exit level for the module is B2 on the CEFR.
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This module will develop all four language skills, with the emphasis on the productive skills of Speaking and Writing, through the study and use of Spanish in a variety of professional contexts in which the language is in use, either alone or with other languages, in national, international and/or intercultural settings.Students will be asked to carry out a range of activities such as, for example: setting up a company in a country where Spanish is spoken or establishing an Irish subsidiary for a Spanish-speaking company; conducting market research; analysing export markets; selling a product and dealing with after-sales service; choosing appropriate promotional strategies; organising online an event, or participation in an event, such as a conference, trade-fair or a visit to another country; organising recruitment to, or applying for an appropriate graduate-entry position in a variety of professional contexts nationally or internationally; analysing contracts.In order to carry out the corresponding tasks, students will engage in learning activities designed to develop their linguistic, cultural and intercultural awareness of national and international professional contexts. Students will thereby develop their professional, transferable communication skills, appropriate to contexts such as: job interviews; negotiations; active listening; reporting; presentations; meeting-chairing and participation; note-taking; professional use of means of communication, including correspondence (traditional or electronic), telephone, email and social media.
A range of teaching and learning approaches, with emphasis where possible on task-based learning, will be used in the delivery of this module including: project work; problem-solving activities; problem-based learning; team–working; independent research; individual and group presentations; discussions; production of written and oral documents relevant to a range of professional contexts; and self-study.
Class-based activities will normally take place in the setting of a communicative language tutorial, making maximum appropriate use of Spanish throughout.
E-learning E-learning will be incorporated into the module as much as possible, including such activities as use of the language laboratory, the use of computing facilities by students to both source information via the internet and other media and to present their work in a variety of formats, supported by the use of various wordprocessing, spreadsheet and presentation software packages,
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 40 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 60 |