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Category: Spanish

Web research in Spanish Civilization

Course objectives:

  • to do research on selected topics using authentic Spanish web sites
  • to be able to reflect on this work
  • to develop the analytical skills to critique the work of others as well as learn from their critiques of one’s personal work
  • to  share this work within a community of learners.
  • Targeting reading and writen communicative proficiency as well as the connections and  community,

Go to sample: Spanish, 331 and Spanish 331, sec 2

Instructor: M. Geoffron-Vinci                      Lafayette College

Artifact: Composing a multimedia documentary

In this Spanish course on Pre-Colombian Latin America, students used images from a research data base created by the professor to “write” a documentary on a topic of their choice. This is a scaffolded project with a print draft and required practice pronunciation with a FLLRC native speaker proctor; most projects were collaborative with students learning from each other.

Communicative objectives: interpretive, presentational (speaking and “writing”).

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Capstone Course in Spanish

Katie graduated in 2010. She worked on the ePortfolio over a three year period of time. The Can Do survey and Dialang results helped shape her course choices and final self-reflections.  Please compare her CanDo surveys to her home page and final reflections page.

Instructor: M. Geoffrion-Vinci          Lafayette College

Capstone Course in Spanish

Matt was an engineering major, Spanish minor. He is currently working for an international chemical firm in Pennsylvania. He has exported his original ePortfolio from Lafayette’s servers and is continuing to build it in his current job.

Please see here his self-reflections on his work in Spanish while at Lafayette.

Instructor: M. Geoffrion-Vinci                       Lafayette College

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