Beginning ceramics
COURSE DESCRIPTION
A three-week language immersion course designed so students will achieve a conversational level of Spanish in addition to an exposure and appreciation of the Oaxacan and Mexican culture. Students will experience different aspects of Oaxaca by hiking to and staying in Zapotec communities, living in a home stay while attending language school in Oaxaca City, and finally working with children from the Monte Alban community. During their 10 days of intensive language instruction, students will participate in hands-on workshops (cooking class, conversation class, indigenous ceramic class) in the morning and then three hours of formal language instruction in the afternoon.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Students will be able to use basic grammatical structures.
- Students will be able to communicate basic needs.
- Students will be exposed to different aspects of the Oaxacan culture through home stays, museum visits, music concerts, and general lectures.
- Students will be able to improve their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills.
LECTURE TOPICS
- Upon arrival to Oaxaca, students will be evaluated and put into one of two language levels. This course has been designed for the more beginning to intermediate speaker. Every morning each student will be in talleres or workshops (cooking class, conversation class, and indigenous ceramics class). In the afternoons they will be in a more formal classroom setting.
- At the beginning of each lesson, the instructor will review previous lessons through a communicative, interactive discussion with students. The title or subject listed below each week is the topic of vocabulary that the teacher will use to teach grammatical structures.
- All lesson topics will be reviewed and executed in the following manner over a three hour period:
- Presentation of grammatical theme
- The location of a grammatical theme in a cultural, conversational context
- Mechanical exercises (reading, listening, writing and speaking)
- Application exercises (reading, listening, writing and speaking)
- Confirmation of understanding and review of theme
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