Module 4 Overview

Loading...

From the course by University of California, Davis

Spanish Vocabulary Project

9 ratings

University of California, Davis

Spanish Vocabulary Project

9 ratings

Course 5 of 5 in the Specialization Learn Spanish: Basic Spanish Vocabulary

In this course, we'll imagine that you are applying for an all-expenses paid, educational trip to a Spanish-speaking nation of your choice. You'll introduce yourself to a host family that you'll be staying with, research the rich culture and history of the place you intend to visit and compare it with your own country, and plan out an itinerary of places you plan to see, and things you plan to do and experience while visiting. In addition, you'll summarize the key points of your written report in an oral presentation. This course is challenging and is meant to test everything you've learned in the Spanish Vocabulary specialization. It will provide you an excellent way in which to test what you know and what you still need to work on in your Spanish learning journey.

From the lesson

Milestone 4: Final Report and Oral Presentation

In our final milestone for this course, you are going to compile all three of your papers into one, complete report, making any last refinements to make it a strong, and grammatically proficient report. You will also get to demonstrate your proficiency in speaking Spanish by giving a brief, 3-5 minute oral presentation that summarizes the key points and findings from your entire report.

Module 4 Overview4:40

Meet the Instructors

Dr. Robert Blake
Professor & Director
UC Consortium for Lanuage Learning & Teaching (UCCLLT)

[MUSIC]

[FOREIGN] You've made it.

Welcome to the fourth and final Milestone of our course.

This is where you put everything else you've done in this course together in

order to produce a final oral presentation summarizing the key points and

findings from each of the three sections of your report.

Your first task is simple.

You'll want to combine the three sections of the report that you completed and

all the other milestones into one.

One comprehensive paper.

If you feel like it, you can take any additional

feedback that you have received along the way and incorporate it into your paper.

But you don't have to.

At this point, the paper will serve two purposes.

One, it will give you a place to start as you begin to summarize your report.

And two, you will be submitting this along with your presentation, so

that your reviewer has some reference for you presentation.

For the presentation itself, you need to produce a three to

five minute recording of yourself either audio or video,

summarizing the key points from your full report, in Spanish.

You'll want to include items from all of the different sections,

not just focus in one area in particular.

As you've probably written three to six pages or

more by now, you should have written plenty of information in your report

to come up with enough material to speak for three to five minutes.

You'll also need to figure out some way to share the material with your

fellow learners.

I'd recommend posting it to something like YouTube or

Soundcloud or some file sharing service.

If you're concerned with privacy, all of these services have settings

in them that allow you to limit how public your published files will be.

For instance, YouTube allows you to set a video that you upload to an unlisted

status, which means that only someone with direct access to the URL such

as your reviewer or yourself will be able to have access to the video.

Now, since this is a global audience,

I realize that some of you might not have access to some of these services.

Or you may not really be comfortable with recording and

sharing something either for technical reasons or personal reasons.

If that's the case, then I have an alternative assignment for you.

And that is, you can use a slide creation tool, like Powerpoint, Google Slides, or

something like that, to create a minimum ten slide presentation.

That contains the full text of what you'd like to say but

you'll put it in the notes area of each slide.

Be sure to also include some nice photos and bullets, all in Spanish,

naturally, that are related to what you're talking about.

Again, this is an alternate assignment.

You're encouraged to do the recording,

which is a preferred way of finishing the assignment.

But use this alternative only if the recording option

really isn't viable for you.

You also need to make sure that you can upload and

submit the file to the Coursera course for review.

On the subject of review, again, you'll be assessed by your your peers.

You'll have to meet certain requirements as outlined

in the assignment instructions.

I want to assure you that the rubric I've designed will not be assessing you on

your pronunciation in terms of a grade.

There will be an open feedback section where your fellow learners can provide

helpful comments on your presentation.

But you won't be docked points for poor pronunciation.

I realize that for many of you, this may be the first time speaking in Spanish in

a public forum, especially if you haven't had a lot of opportunities during this

specialization to practice your speaking with other Spanish speakers or learners.

So, I don't want to add to your stress by assessing that here.

As far as pronunciation goes, you'll all receive an A for effort,

with some substantial feedback from your peers on how to improve for the future.

Okay, now you know what to do to wrap up this capstone assignment.

You should feel proud of how far you've come, and

now you only have a little further to go.

So let's get to it.

[FOREIGN]

Explore our Catalog

Join for free and get personalized recommendations, updates and offers.

Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.

© 2018 Coursera Inc. All rights reserved.

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play