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  Exploring Types of Evidence in Oral Communication

  Kristi DiLallo

  Students will recognize the importance of having a diversity of sources in oral communication.

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  Working with Conclusions through Logical Fallacies: Finding Faults and Rebuttals

  Timothy David Orme

  To help students identify logical fallacies, the harm of those fallacies, and how they might pinpoint them in their own work.

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  Teaching Synthesis

  Sarah P C Dahlen, Jacqui Grallo, Kenny Garcia, George Station, Shwadhin Sharma, and Amir Attia

  Students will learn how to synthesize information from sources.

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  Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #1

  Gabriela C. Zapata

  By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  1. Identify and name characteristics of the narrative genre;

  2. Identify the rules for and correctly use the preterite and imperfect;

  3. Identify the rules for the accentuation of palabras agudas and esdrújulas and correctly apply them;

  4. Write a narrative of at least 300 words;

  5. Understand the rules behind the production of visual "texts";

  6. Produce a visual narrative using images and video.

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  Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #2

  Gabriela C. Zapata

  This is the second instructional module for the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers at the intermediate level. The outcomes for this module are as follows:

  1. Students will be able to understand the way in which a persuasive essay is organized and written;

  2. Students will be able to continue applying the rules for the accentuation of palabras esdrújulas and agudas to improve their spelling;

  3. Students will be able to understand the rules that govern the present tense in Spanish and why it is the most appropriate tense when writing a persuasive essay.

  4. Students will learn the rules that govern the accentuation patterns for palabras llanas and hiatos, and they will apply these rules under instructor and peer guidance;

  5. Students will apply the concepts learned to the development of a persuasive essay;

  6. Students will apply the concepts learned to create and carry out an interview with a person of Hispanic origin in order to collect information about his/her work experiences in the United States.

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  Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #3

  Gabriela C. Zapata

  This is the third instructional module for the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers at the intermediate level. The outcomes for this module are as follows:

  1. Students will be able to understand the way in which a descriptive essay is organized and written;

  2. Students will be able to continue applying the rules for the accentuation of palabras esdrújulas and agudas to improve their spelling;

  3. Students will be able to understand the rules that govern the use of adjectives in Spanish, including the exceptions that break these rules;

  4. Students will review the rules that govern the accentuation patterns for palabras llanas and hiatos, and they will apply these rules under instructor and peer guidance;

  5. Students will apply the concepts learned to the development of a descriptive essay;

  6. Students will apply the concepts learned to create a presentation on a cultural aspect related to their family Hispanic heritage;

  7. Students will learn how to prepare an academic presentation, and they will implement this knowledge in the oral presentation of their work.

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  Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #4

  Gabriela C. Zapata

  This is the fourth module of an instructional course for Spanish Heritage Speakers.

  By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  1. Be able to critically analyze the ideas about bicultural/bilingual identity expressed in a variety of multimodal ensembles, such as poems, photos, and art pieces;

  2. Synthesize the knowledge learned in the previous modules to develop an multi-genre autobiography;

  3. Synthesize the knowledge learned in the previous modules to develop hybrid, multimodal autobiography.