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EPN-V2

Course name in Norwegian: Spanskdidaktikk og spansk litteratur

Study programme: Spanish 2

Weight: 15.0 ECTS

Year of study: 2025/2026

Curriculum: SPRING 2026

Schedule: SPRING 2026

Programme description: Spanish 2 (2025 HØST )

Course history

Required preliminary courses

This course involves visiting libraries, archives, and/or museums linked to a chosen theme. The theme is selected with guidance from the course supervisor, and the visits are aligned with it. Students can pick themes related to various aspects, such as services, policies, collections, knowledge organization, universal design, leadership, marketing, dissemination practices, and current issues relevant to institutions. Visits may encompass libraries, archives, museums, or combinations of these. Additional information and cultural institutions can be included if pertinent to the theme. Visits typically involve meetings with relevant staff members and students' informal observations.

Learning outcomes

None.

Content

The CEFR and its relationship with the Norwegian Spanish as a Second Language Programme.

1.1. Presentation: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). European Language Portfolio (ELP) as a learning tool. The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL).

1.2. The Instituto Cervantes and the PCIC (Curricular Plan of the Instituto Cervantes). DELE Official Spanish diplomas.

1.3. Horizontal dimension of the CEFR: progression of learning and description of reference levels. Parameters and categories.

2. Strategic competence: mother tongue and target language.

2.1. Empathy and acceptance. Acquisition of cultural values based on linguistic elements. The natural appropriation of the target language.

2.2. Speech as overcoming stereotypes: the intercultural implications. Language as a mediator of culture shock: enrichment.

2.3. Acculturation: the target language becomes mother tongue.

3. ICTs in the teaching of Spanish as a Second Language.

3.1. Typology of teaching resources on the Internet: obtaining and managing.

3.2. Key educational tools for teaching Spanish.

3.3. E-learning and Blended Learning: possibilities of formative integration and interaction in the classroom.

4. Didactics of Spanish Literature.

4.1. The canon in Spanish: main literary movements and authors.

4.2. Techniques and strategies in the Spanish classroom: animations, workshops, dramatisations, etc.

4.3. Texts and readings for learning Spanish as a Second Language.

Teaching and learning methods

The student writes a term paper reporting the empirical study. The student decides on the focus and research problem of the empirical study within the frames of the course and in agreement with the course responsible.

The term paper is written individually.

The term paper amounts 12-14 pages (A4). The front page, the list of contents, tables, diagrams, and screen shots, the list of references, and appendices are excluded.

Font and font size: Arial / Calibri / Verdana 12 points. Line spacing: 1.5.

The term paper can be written in either English or Norwegian (or another Scandinavian language).

In case, the term paper does not pass, the student must submit a revised term paper. Note, no supervision is offered in the case of revision of the term paper.

Course requirements

The course centers around a series of visits to libraries, archives, and/or museums in connection to students' selected themes. Students will complete two assignments related to their series of visits and present their investigation of the selected theme to the class.

Students can work individually or in groups of two.

Teaching methods alternate between lectures, study visits, discussions, and presentations. Teaching will be on campus, sometimes online.

Assessment

Letter grading A-F.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

The examination is evaluated by both an internal and an external examiner. The external examiner grades a randomly selected sample, comprising approximately 25 percent of the exams. The grades assigned to this sample serve as a basis for the internal examiners who will assess the remaining exams.

Grading scale

Jamie Johnston

Examiners

The exam will be assessed by two internal examiners. An external programme supervisor is affiliated with the course in accordance with the Guidelines for Appointment and Use of Examiners at OsloMet.