SPA - Spanish

España Hoy

EspaÃ±a Hoy is a Web-based unit that examines life and culture in todayâ€™s Spain, building on and updating our 1998 Consortium project, EspaÃ±a de cerca .
EspaÃ±a Hoy consists of a new set of video interviews with a variety of people in different regions of Spain talking about life, society and culture in todayâ€™s Spain. These interviews will be edited, annotated and cross-referenced. Additional contextual materials, (newspaper and magazine articles, surveys, advertisements, public service campaigns ads, songs, radio reports, photographs, maps, additional digital video and other web links) will be added to provide a more general perspective to the personal viewpoints expressed by the interviewees. While this project aims to bring up to date many of the basic topics that formed the core of EspaÃ±a de cerca, it will also address other issues confronting Spanish society today, such as growing immigration, international terrorism, rapid urbanization and its ecological consequences.

Development of a website with audio-visual materials for Spanish 202 (Advanced Spanish)

For the enhancement of Spanish 202 (Advanced Spanish), I propose the creation of a website containing clips from full-length and short films, and TV advertisements. The clips are related to the content of the textbook currently used in Spanish 202 but they could work as well with other textbooks and at other levels of instruction. The website will be accessible by Spanish 202 instructors only.

Immigrant Voices: Stories from Hispanic Communities in Boston

Development of Web-based modules for intermediate Spanish on the experience of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Boston area. The modules include videos of interviews and contextual materials.

Recordings of Native Speakers for Aural Proficiency in Spanish Classes: Cara a Cara

This project will allow the taping of segments for Cara a Cara in Buenos Aires, Argentina during winter quarter, 2000. Taping in Argentina would provide key opportunities to expand upon the projects general themes by illustrating examples of authentic speech and settings in a Latin American context. The Argentine component could be used by both Latin American Studies and Spanish Language instructors as a teaching and study-abroad orientation resource in the college.

Spanish Writing Center

The project will help establish a Spanish Writing Center at Brown which will assist students in intermediate and advanced undergraduate Spanish courses to improve their writing in Spanish. The Spanish Writing Center will be housed initially in the Language Resource Center and will be staffed by three graduate students from Hispanic Studies. It will provide consultations in person, by telephone, or via e-mail for 27 hours each week.

Pluma: Spanish Writing Center - Continuation

Pluma, the Spanish Writing Center at Brown University, was established last year with a campus-based grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. It has been operational since January, 2004. For it we have created a web site with resource links and an online appointment system. Each semester the Center has employed three graduate students who have seen hundreds of undergraduates seeking assistance with course papers for Hispanic Studies literature and culture courses. We have used all of the original funding to fund the first year of operation, and request an additional 3,000 to hire two graduate consultants for the spring of 2005. This spring we will explore the transition to a model whereby we would train undergraduate consultants who are native speakers of Spanish, to be paid from the Hispanic Studies department budget for undergraduate assistants.

Cara a cara in Buenos Aires

Continuation of the Cara a cara video project of interviews with a dozen native speakers in Buenos Aires. See other listings for the other segments of Cara a cara.

Audio Materials for Spanish

Development of listening comprehension materials for Spanish.

Support for Conference on Spanish Language Instruction

Support for participating in a conference on Spanish language instruction.

Purchase of Spanish Films for an Advanced Course

Purchse of films for use in an advanced Spanish language course on politics and international relations.