Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

Threshold concepts, Error analysis

Abstract

This year, I taught a course in advanced Spanish grammar, Spanish 302. This course provided me with an opportunity to build on a procedure I developed and refined in the Backwards by Design writing instruction workshops in 2012 and 2013 for emphasizing one of the threshold concepts in basic Spanish, noun-adjective agreement. This year’s enhanced procedure, which could not be implemented easily at the 100 level, is proving to serve as a gateway to greater understanding on the part of my students of their individual strengths and weaknesses.

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Spanish language--Composition and exercises; Spanish language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.; Spanish language--Study and teaching (Higher); Spanish language--Semantics

Genre/Form

reports

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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