UNIDAD ZACATENCO

Spanish Workshop for FOREIGNERS

2019-1

CENTRO DE LENGUAS EXTRANJERASUNIDAD ZACATENCO

http://www.cenlexz.ipn.mx

Objective

Course Framing

The Spanish Workshop for Foreigners is delivered in a face-to-face modality and is aimed at the non-Spanish speaking foreign community. At the end, the learner develops the basic communicative competence in Spanish so as to be able to describe or express him/herself in daily situations of personal, academic, professional and public instances.

The 2018 Cervantes Institute Report con�rms the validity and importance of Spanish as a Foreign Language around the world, since it is spoken as a mother tongue by approximately 480 million people, reaching a �gure of 577 million Spanish speakers as a second language. By 2050, it is estimated that Spanish will be spoken by around 756 million as the Spanish-speaking population increases.

As a foreign language, Spanish is disputing its place with French and Mandarin Chinese as the second most studied language worldwide, besides being the most studied language in the U.S. and the U.K., the European Union, France, Sweden and Denmark locate it as the most studied language in Junior High School Education. Internationally, it is considered to be the fourth most studied foreign language.

This opens a wide outlook to o�er Spanish as a Second Language courses in our country and mainly in the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN, acronym in Spanish), which is remarkable for being the most important public institution in technological education in Mexico. The IPN o�ers several mobility programs by means of the Academic Cooperation Coordination (CCA, acronym in Spanish) so that foreign interdisciplinary studies, Master’s and PhD candidates pursue these studies in any of its Academic Units, Schools or Research Centers, having a variety of programs in Engineering and Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Biomedical & Biological Sciences, Social & Administrative Sciences.

Most of the academic o�er for foreigners that take part in the IPN mobility programs is carried out in Spanish; therefore, the Spanish Workshop for Foreigners is an alternative to acquire the minimum Spanish knowledge required to understand and express themselves upon their arrival and while they stay in our country.

The workshop fosters autonomous learning and develops the communicative competence in students, so as to provide them with basic tools for coping with a Spanish-speaking environment. This boosts learning about cultural aspects in our country, respecting learners’ diversity and otherness.

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General Subject Matter

Each module teaching plan is designed with communicative and linguistic contents covering grammar and functional topics, according to speci�c themes. Moreover, cultural contents are covered, allowing the learner to immerse in the culture of Spanish and speci�cally in Mexico’s.

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LINGUISTIC ANDCOMMUNICATIVECONTENT

The workshop has been divided into four 40-hour modules each, accounting for a total of 160 hours in a face-to-face modality. Each module corresponds to the 2018 Common European Framework levels, going from Pre-A1 to A2 levels. Each module is developed within a speci�c topic.

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Unit 1. Greetings, farewells and introducing people Unit 1. Family and Friends.

Unit 1. My Childhood. Unit 1. Current Festivals & Celebrations.

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Unit 2. Mexican Traditions & Legends.

Unit 3. Pre- Columbian cultures: Aztec & Maya

Civilizations.

Unit 4. Mexico in the Future

Unit 5. My IPN Experience.

Unit 2. Events that surround me.

Unit 3. TV News & Press.

Unit 4. Going to the cinema.

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Unit 5. My Near Future.

Unit 2. Daily Activities.

Unit 3. Places to Visit.

Unit 4. The Country & the City.

Unit 5. Holidays & Preferences.

Unit 2. At School. Class Instructions. School

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Unit 4. Location of Spanish countries & nationalities

Unit 5. Human diversity and its cultural & artistic

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Unit 3. Jobs & Occupations.

Our teachers

Our students

The Workshop teachers are native Spanish speakers with teaching education in the Spanish teaching-learning process and/or a BA in Spanish as a Foreign Language teaching or a related bachelor’s degree. They also have experience as facilitators in workshops.

The workshop is aimed at non-Spanish foreigners older than 15 years and who are interested in acquiring or improving their command of Spanish. Due to their academic exchange situations, work issues or pleasure trips, they are eager for speaking the language and learning about the Mexican culture.

Ideally, our students are able to self-adjust their time as well as their learning means. Not only are they skillful at developing creative, analytic and critical thinking, but they can also carry out activities collaboratively and in teams. Besides, they are skillful at dealing with ITs and are interested in achieving Spanish knowledge at a level that provides them with solid basic communication.

When �nishing the four Spanish-Workshop-for-Foreigners modules, the student will be able to take part in short conversations and exchange information expressing interest, agreement or disagreement on family or daily issues, related to work and free time. Additionally, they will be able to interpret and extract essential information from short online texts or publications and will take notes on topics related to immediate needs at a basic level.

Moreover, our graduates will have acquired Spanish cultural aspects, mainly from the Mexican (Aztec and Maya Cultures), in several �elds such as traditions, literature, music, cinema, television, journalism, among others. This will strengthen their empathy for artistic and human diversity.

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Admission Pro�le

Graduation Pro�le

Achievement Expectation

The achievement expectation is de�ned in each module and organized according to the communication categories speci�ed in the 2018 CEFR, which take in the linguistic competences. In these competences, the reception skills (reading and listening) will be developed as well as the production ones (writing and speaking). Such skills will be developed within an interaction framework with themselves or with their interlocutors, where several mechanisms for constructing the meanings and the language knowledge are set by means of the mediation among those who participate in the teaching-learning process.

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Achievement Expectation

Modules

RECEPTION PRODUCTION INTERACTION MEDIATION

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Students learn to greet, introduce themselves or other people and say goodbye; to talk about family and school situations in order to communicate in formal and informal contexts, using basic expressions and vocabulary.

The user will be able to express several ideas about daily situations, obligations and future plans, using frequency expressions, preferences, so as to discuss about the family daily life and the people who live in the city.

Learners will be able to describe the activities they did in their childhood, the ones carried out presently and the ones which will take place in a short or long-term future, besides, they will be able to discuss the di�erent entertainment activities they carry out in their free time.

Students will be able to learn about the cultural diversity in our country, identifying the main legends and traditions as well as the technological advances within our country, in order to discover the richness of Mexico yesterday, now and then.

Basic 1 Level (CEFR Pre-A1)

Basic 2 Level(CEFR A1)

Basic 3 Level (CEFR A2)

Basic 4 Level (CEFR A2+)

CENLEX Unidad "ZACATENCO. Av. Luis Enrique Erro S/N, Unidad Profesional Adolfo López Mateos, Zacatenco,Alcaldia Gustavo A. Madero, C.P. 07738, Ciudad de México.

Subdirección de Apoyo y Extensión. Ext. 54943 y 53648 Subdirección Académica. Ext. 54901

Evaluation Criteria

For further information

In case the student has previous Spanish knowledge, a diagnostic test will be given so as to locate him/her in one of the CEFR levels being o�ered: pre-A1, A1, A2 or A2+, according to the command of the Spanish language observed in the diagnostic test and an interview.

Several activities will be carried out in order to develop a formative evaluation that measures the students’ performance. In addition, activities that allow evaluation with their peers will take place as well as a self-evaluation in which the student will be able to identify their opportunity areas.

A passing or failing grade would not exist. Certi�cates of participation will be issued for the di�erent workshop modules. Attending 80% of the sessions is mandatory to hand in the certi�cate of participation.

At the end of the workshop a certi�cate of participation will be issued, describing the acquired competences.

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