Spanish 2: Advanced

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

9

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of Foreign Languages

Course type:

Elective course

When:

2 year, 1-3 module

Instructors

Коган Петр Леонидович

Cuellar Rojas, Andres F.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The program is aimed at students in the "Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication" program who are learning Spanish as a second language. The program meets all the requirements for developing communicative competence in a foreign language. The "Communicative Practice of a Second Foreign Language (Spanish)" course is the core component of the professional program.

Learning Objectives

• Development of foreign language communicative competence at level B1, which assumes the student's readiness and ability to carry out everyday communication in Spanish on any topic and in any communicative situations and for academic communication in the most frequent simple communicative situations

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Can understand the main ideas and some details of spoken and written texts in Spanish, including those typically used in academic communication
• Can produce generally coherent oral text in Spanish on familiar topics, express ideas clearly, give brief explanations and communicate in most situations, including those common in academic communication
• Produces simple written texts in Spanish on familiar topics, generally taking into account the rules of academic communication

Course Contents

• Travel. Vacation
• Education
• Work, business, career
• Review

Assessment Elements

• Written elements of current control
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes the assessment of vocabulary, grammar tests, listening and reading tests and tasks, as well as written speech products created by the student.
• Exam
  The oral exam is held during the session and involves the student solving a given communicative task in accordance with their level of foreign language proficiency.
• Oral elements of current control
  This element of control checks the current level of development of the student’s language skills and speech abilities and includes an assessment of phonetic skills, as well as oral speech products created by the student.
• Classroom work
  Classroom work – the control element evaluates the student’s work, which includes, but is not limited to, the following components: participation in classes, participation in discussions and group work, answers to the teacher’s questions, preparation for classes, homework, independent work, activity, involvement and initiative. This control element evaluates the student’s use of a foreign language to solve various communicative tasks in the process of direct interaction between the teacher and students in the classroom, including with the support of prepared homework.
• Final written work
  Final written work – this element of control evaluates the level of development of the student’s lexical and grammatical skills, listening and reading skills and abilities, as well as written speech proficiency for solving various communication tasks. The certification work consists of several sections: Listening, Hieroglyphics/Reading, Vocabulary and Grammar, Writing. The certification work is carried out during the last class of the module. The maximum score for each section is 25. The final maximum score is 100.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 1st module
  0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Exam + 0.15 * Final written work + 0.25 * Oral elements of current control + 0.25 * Written elements of current control
• 2025/2026 3rd module
  0.1 * Classroom work + 0.25 * Exam + 0.15 * Final written work + 0.25 * Oral elements of current control + 0.25 * Written elements of current control

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Espanol en marcha 3. Curso de espanol como lengua extranjera : cuaderno de ejercicios, Viudez, F. C., 2006
• Espanol en marcha 3. Curso de espanol como lengua extranjera : libro del alumno, Viudez, F. C., 2006
• Metodo de espanol para extranjeros : nivel intermedio, Millares, S., 2009

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Cuaderno de ejercicios para practicar el espanol : nivel intermedio: B1-B2, Benitez Perez, P., 2007

Authors

• SAPOZHNIKOVA ANASTASIYA SERGEEVNA
• MALTSEV MARK ALEKSANDROVICH
• LAPINA Daria SERGEEVNA
• Zvolskaia Margarita Alekseevna
• Cuellar Rojas Andres Felipe