Conversation and Chilean Culture – Intermediate Level

Course description
The course of conversation and Chilean culture – advanced level – integrates language and culture
through various types of text in order to strengthen the total immersion context in which the
student is inserted.
General objective
To improve the student’s communicative intercultural competence base on the four linguistic skills:
oral and written comprehension and oral and written production from an interactive focus taking
advantage of different locations of learning provided by the total immersion context: the Chilean
family and the community.
Specific objectives
To develop the skill of expressing thoughts and feelings through oral words in terms of authentic
and various type of texts according to the level.
To develop the skill of oral comprehension through authentic and different audio visual materials
according to the level.

To develop the skill of understanding written texts of diverse and various difficulty levels. To
develop the skill of expressing thoughts and feelings through written words, mainly, in descriptive,
narrative, and argumentative texts.
To engage the student with the language and culture through fieldworks in the community: to
observe, to interview.
Contents
Chile. Sociocultural aspects, conversation, commonplaces, stereotypes. Characteristics of Chilean
idiosyncrasy and identity. Collective imaginaries. Idiomatic expressions and Chilean slang.
Sociocultural approach.
In Spanish tentative schedule
SEMANA 1 PRESENTACIÓN ✓ Presentaciones. Saludos. Ocupaciones y aficiones. ✓ ¿Dónde
estamos? ✓ ¿De dónde venimos? ✓ Interacción fuera de la clase.
SEMANA 2 NUESTRA CASA, NUESTRA CIUDAD ✓ El espacio público y la Gentrificación. ✓ Ciudad
patrimonial. ✓ La ciudad y su cultura popular. ✓ Prácticas populares en espacios públicos. Las
animitas ✓ La cocina, identidad cultural. Historia, fusión y presente. ✓ Interacción fuera de la clase.
SEMANA 3 NUESTRA HISTORIA. ✓ Comparación histórica. POSTMEMORIA. ✓ Línea cronológica.
Breve historia de Valparaíso y Viña. ✓ Letras chilenas. ✓ Música chilena. ✓ Interacción fuera de la
clase.

Activities 1. Theoretical and expository lessons 2. Individual oral presentations 3. Conversation and
debate. 4. Pair work. 5. Out of class comunicative activities.

Evaluation

1. Participation: 10%
2. Attendance: 10%
3. Compositions: 25%
4. Oral presentations: 1 – 2 15% , each 30%
5. Final presentation + discussion: 25%

Resources
a) Videos, cortometrajes. b) PPT de las temáticas a tratar c) Guías de trabajo d) Material didáctico.
General bibliography

1. Cassany, D. (1998). Reparar la escritura: didáctica de la corrección de lo escrito. Barcelona:
Grao.
2. Lagos, Daniel. Diccionario Lingüístico del Habla de Valparaíso. Universidad de Playa Ancha,
Valparaíso, 2005
3. Álvarez, Pedro et. Alabama. Chi Logo, ¡Llévele el Ícono Nacional, Oiga !, Universidad del
Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile, 2010.
4. Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD). Desarrollo Humano en Chile 2002.
Santiago de Chile, 2002.