Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2012
Keywords
Threshold concepts, Teaching Spanish
Abstract
Numerous practices and assignments discussed at the 2012 Backwards by Design Curriculum Workshop appeal to me as sources of creativity in the classroom. Some will suit courses I teach in the future. For this year, I faced an issue: I am working with students whose classroom vocabulary is equivalent to that of a three-year-old, because I am teaching first-year Spanish.
The most applicable idea, one that energized me greatly, was the identification of threshold concepts. Working backward from that identification, I sought ways to implement practices that would, I hoped, bring those concepts permanently into my students’ approach to writing in Spanish
Recommended Citation
Dwyer, Sean, "A Process for Engagement with Threshold Concepts in Spanish Composition" (2012). Backward by Design Mini-Studies. 15.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wis_backwardsbydesign/15
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Spanish language--Composition and exercises; Spanish language--Written Spanish; Spanish language--Study and teaching--United States; Proofreading
Geographic Coverage
United States
Genre/Form
reports
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Included in
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons