Module Code - Title:
SP4166
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SPANISH FOR BUSINESS 4
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
SP4163
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is set at B1+/B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
To extend within a Spanish business context students' reading, speaking, writing and listening skills already practised in the previous semesters. This is achieved principally by revising and increasing students' knowledge of Spanish vocabulary and grammar and discourse and genre characteristics. An increasing emphasis is placed on facilitating students' command of aspects of the language most centrally relevant to their future professional needs.
Syllabus:
This module is set at B1+/B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
There is no syllabus of linguistic items specific to this module, as the main grammatical structures, etc. of Spanish have been covered in previous modules and are consolidated and developed in this and the other remaining modules of the course. This module provides students with the space to expand their knowledge and language skills. Using authentic material, students are asked to perform in a simulated business environment a variety of tasks encountered in specific situations. A particular focus area is corporate culture (workers and their workplace, internal communication, time management). In addition students make short oral presentations in the target language on selected Spanish social/ cultural issues.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Students who successfully complete this module will have a degree of competence within Common Reference Levels B1+/B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. As such, they will have comprehensively consolidated their competence at B1 reference level. Students will also be expected to have acquired a demonstrable ability to: understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including semi-technical discussions in the field of business; interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without significant strain for either party; produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
(https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale)
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module students should be able to: evaluate with increasing empathy their own language progress and that of their peers and identify priorities; demonstrate increasing cross-cultural awareness.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module consists of one hour conversation class, a two hour tutorial, and one hour in the language laboratory. Students benefit from a wide and appropriate range of teaching and learning approaches, with an emphasis on small group tuition and interactive learning. All four language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, are covered.
As regards materials, as is appropriate to this level, and subsequent modules in this sequence, a set text/course book is no longer used. The main materials employed are contemporary (regularly updated), authentic texts from Latin American and Spanish media and other sources, with particular reference to themes of business, commerce and economics.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Other Relevant Texts:
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin (2011)
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish / Edition 5.
, Taylor and Francis.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BBBUSTUFA - BUSINESS STUDIES
BAINBUUFA - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Marta.FortesSaez@ul.ie