Spanish for Service Professions

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Spanish for Service Professions

• Spanish for specific purposes
• Education
• Medicine
• Social Services
• Business

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Course Rationale

• Consider vocation
• Experience Hispanic culture
• Appreciate Hispanic contributions to society
• Increase awareness and needs of Hispanics
• Increase cross-cultural understanding

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Course Rationale (cont.)

• Learn and actively use profession-specific
  Spanish language
• Practice oral skills
• Prepare students for working with Hispanics in
  their professional lives

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Class organization

• Whole class activities
• Small group activities
• Profession-specific group activities
• Individual and small group homework activities

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Whole class activities

• Speakers
• Field trips
• Videos
• Reading discussions
• Grammar instruction and practice

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Speakers

• Education
• Psychology
• Church work
• Business panel

Juan Rael
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Field trips

• Spanish language church service
• Banking seminar
• Nursing home visits
• Parenting classes for ESL students
• Spanish restaurant

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Homework Logs

• Key to individualization
• Weekly homework 3-4 hours
• Seven categories of activities
• Student choice (minimum of one activity per
  category)

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Procedure

• Present system to students
• Introduce materials
• Authentic materials
• Realia
• Digitized sources
• Students work independently
• Collect logs weekly grade return

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Sample Activities

• Listening
• Culture
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking

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The Juan B. Rael Collection

• Hispano Music Culture of the Northern
  Rio Grande
• Multi-format
• Ethnographic Field Collection

• Spanish Religious Secular Music
• Audio files
• Textual transcription translation

http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html
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The border crossed us, we didnt cross the
border.
The Blending of Culture Latino Influence on
America

• Connections
• Essays on Rael
• Reading and writing
• The South Texas Border Collection
• Photo Analysis

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The border crossed us, we didnt cross the
border.
The Blending of Culture Latino Influence on
America

• More Connections
• Intercultural Music Activity
• Juan B. Rael
• WPA California Music Project

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Culture

• Understanding generational differences
• Pew Hispanic Institute
• Essay on generational differences

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More Culture Connections

• Life Histories
• Working In Patterson
• Voices from the Dust Bowl
• Jose Flores

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Reading

• Connections to field trips
• Spanish language church service
• ELCA homepage in Spanish
• Catholic World in Spanish

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More Reading

• Interactive reading on the web

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Management

• Group size
• Time
• Assessment
• Weekly homework logs
• Portfolio

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Resources

• Interests
• Reading level
• Length
• Source types
• Local
• Print
• Digital
• Other

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Technology

• Illinois Technology Standards
• 2, 3, 6, 8, 9

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Spanish for Service Professions

• helping to prepare reflective practitioners
• to better understand the number one and
• still growing minority through primary
• sourceslocal, video, print, and (of
• course!) digital.