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Designing a CPD courseonline:Spanish for Primaryteaching
 Tita Beaven,Department of Languages, The OpenUniversity
April 2009
 
 The challenge:
Our challenge in this CPD course was in designingan online course to introduce primary schoolpractitioners to the Spanish language. Thisinvolved:
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Designing a basic curriculum to introduce schoolpractitioners to basic Spanish vocabulary andstructures, but at the same time designing acourse that would also be relevant to theirclassroom context
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 Training participants in learning how to learn alanguage
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Providing substantial interactive practice online
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Providing support for the course participants
 
Overall course content
All out CPD courses a 30-hours long, so in terms of the language covered the aims of the course arenecessarily modest:
Overall course content
 This short course gives you some basicknowledge of Spanish as well as introducinglanguage and language learning activitiessuitable for children at Key Stages 1 and 2. Theaim of the course is to enable Primary Schoolpractitioners to introduce basic Spanish phrasesto their class and to engage children in simple –but nevertheless lively and varied – interactionsin the target language.
(Extract from the introduction to the course)
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