Spanish I A
The first year online Spanish course is designed to introduce students to the basics of the Spanish language. Emphasis will be placed on perceiving and acquiring the correct pronunciation of sounds; using vocabulary to speak and write and to understand the spoken and written word; recognizing and using the present, past, and immediate future tenses of regular verbs and selected irregular verbs; and understanding and using basic grammatical constructions. Through videos, students see and hear native speakers in authentic locations around the Spanish-speaking world.
Each unit in this online Spanish course includes numerous interactive activities, cultural notes, and cultural interviews. The activities help build competency in each of the four Spanish language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Use of interactive software allows students and instructors to engage in real-time, online, video and audio communication.
Spanish I B
Spanish I B is a communicative beginning-level online Spanish language course. Students will continue to develop their Spanish proficiency through extensive interaction in the target language. A key component of this course is the "E-edition" of the ¡En español! textbook that each student will be using for this course. The E-edition of ¡En español! is an online, interactive version of the ¡En español! textbook. Ideally, each student will purchase both the textbook and E-edition of the textbook. However, the E-edition can be purchased without the textbook if that is preferred.
Each unit of this online Spanish course begins with a video dramatization that introduces the functions, vocabulary, and grammar targeted in the unit. Through videos, students see and hear native speakers in authentic locations around the Spanish-speaking world. There are also numerous audio clips that reinforce the language taught through the video segments. Each unit also includes a variety of interactive activities, cultural notes, and cultural interviews. The activities help build competency in each of the four language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The quizzes, midterm, and final in this course are based on the activities in this online textbook. The hard copy of the textbook ¡En español! offer students an opportunity to practice and study the language away from the computer as well as a Spanish-English glossary of all the words used in the course.
All courses are written to California Department of Education
standards and to national standards, as applicable.