Subjunctive in Spanish: What to Know About and How to Teach it

Three week course, second session



1. Description: Theory and Teaching Strategies for the use and value of the subjunctive in Spanish, with special focus on the interaction between Syntax and Semantics.



2. Goals: This course WILL NOT explain the Subjunctive per se or its uses in a conscious and explicit way. Taking into account the professional context as teachers of SFL of the majority of the students enrolled in this Program, a huge part of the course time will be focused on the common and collaborative construction of knowledge and didactic contents about the Subjunctive with special focus on:



Indicative vs. Subjunctive in Spanish

Subjunctive and syntax

Subjunctive and pragmatics



(.5 unit) Material provided by the professor.