FACULTY OF LINGUISTICS

REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS FOR BASIC AND ADVANCE 

SPANISH  LANGUAGE

NAME OF COURSE: DIPLOMA IN FRENCH LANGUAGE

To equip the student with communication skills, knowledge and values appropriate for effective communication in various fields of Spanish language.

ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT

Faculty of Arts Admission & Registration requirements for Ordinary Diploma shall apply.  Student with a certificate in Spanish shall have an added advantage.

COURSE STRUCTURE & DURATION

Faculty of Linguistic regulations will apply and the  duration  is one year 

EXAMINATIONS REGULATIONS

Regulations governing the Faculty of Arts Examinations conduct shall apply or International Examination.

SPANISH LANGUAGE SYLLABUS

Level  One  Duration  is six months  

Alphabet

Nouns

Using nouns

Gender

Forming plurals

Articles

Different types of article                                                           

The definite article

The indefinite article

The partitive article

Adjectives

Using adjectives

Making adjectives agree

Word order with adjectives

Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives: 

Possessive adjectives

Indefinite adjectives

Pronouns

Personal pronouns: subject

Personal pronouns: direct object

Personal pronouns: indirect object .

Emphatic pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Using different types of pronoun together

Indefinite pronouns

Relative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Verbs

The three conjugations

The present tense

The present tense (first conjugation) verbs

The present tense (second conjugation) verbs

The present tense (third conjugation) verbs

The present tense: verbs

The present tense:  verbs

The imperative

Reflexive verbs

The imperfect tense

The future tense

The conditional

The perfect tense

The pluperfect tense

The passive

The present participle

lmpersonal verbs

The subjunctive

Verbs followed by an infinitive

Other uses of the infinitive

Negatives

Questions

How to ask a question in French

Question words

Adverbs

How adverbs are used

How adverbs are formed

Comparatives and superlatives of adverbs

Some common adverbs

Word order with adverbs

Prepositions

How prepositions are used

Some other common prepositions

Prepositions consisting of more than one word

Prepositions after verbs

Prepositions after adjectives

Conjunction

Some other common conjunctions

The conjunction 

Level Two duration  six months 

DIALOGUE IN SPANISH 

Conversational  and  communication skills – participation in simple dialogue, drills in spoken Spanish, making requests, reasons explanation,  Conversation on shopping, sports, professions and handicrafts, diseases, accidents and remedies, furniture & household items, sizes & properties of bodies, virtues & vices, with the shopkeeper, at the hospital, etc

SPANISH COMPOSITION 

A theoretical survey of various ways to writing compositions, Guided composition, joining simple words & phrases to make sentences and paragraphs, rearranging sentences and expressions to form dialogue completion of statements

SPANISH TRANSLATION

Problems of translation (structural & cultural) from one language to another, word for word translation, and figurative translation, simple exercises in translation of short sentences & paragraphs, translating proverbs and wise sayings

ADVANCED SPANISH GRAMMAR

The declinable and Indeclinable condition, conjugation, derived forms of the trilateral verb, syntactic styles in Spanish(exclamation, surprise & wonder, interrogation, vilification, commendation, comparison, condition), nouns of pre-eminence and degrees of comparison, Adjectives assilimilated to the active participle, Augmented and Unaugmented verbs.

ADVANCED SPANISH COMPOSITION

Various ways of letter-writing (both official and personal) summary of selected texts, forms of Spanish Prose – writing academic papers, speeches, advertisements, short stories & events, public announcements, notices and occasional greetings & messages. Oral versus Written Communication , good writing style in Written communication, principles of written Communication. overcoming barriers to Effective Written Communication, writing Organization. Writing Style. Making an Argument .Paraphrase and Summary versus Plagiarism

ADVANCED SPANISH TRANSLATION

Oral & written professional translation of various selected passages of different subjects and interests – translating excerpts from speeches, newspapers, religious books, official documents (constitutions & log books etc)messages principles of verbal communication language can be an obstacle to communication,emphasis strategies ,Improving Verbal Communication

ADVANCED  SKILLS IN SPANISH

Reading skills – reading unvowelled materials, reading Spanish newspapers & magazines, writing skills-various handwritings in Spanish , practicing writing , listening skills – dictation and audio skills, Spanish  parsing and diminutive styles.