SPAN 120 (L2)

When I was course director for L2, I worked with both language faculty and PTAIs to construct culturally rich material. Each unit was dedicated to a well-known person or iconic element and a particular country. When possible, I included a pertinent audio component, recorded at CLS by native speakers (members of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese) of the country in question. Originally, theseĀ  units were used as exams, but were soon appropriated as pre-testing review material. The topics ranged from a humorous scene from a Mexican soap opera, a revered Argentinean cartoon character, a Quechua chronicler, and the example provided, the Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga. I have used the audio, recorded by my former colleague, Alicia VanAltena, in class as a listening-comprehension activity, and have also transformed it into a video, Misiones, for cultural presentations.