Students are not only encouraged to come to class every day but also to show a positive attitude through an active class participation. A good performance in class includes the quality of your participation (e.g. some regular and brief oral reports on daily news in class), attentiveness, preparedness, interest and timely completion of all the assignments. Simply showing up in class is not enough to earn a good grade. 

        All workbook exercises and lesson materials must be prepared before coming to class according to the instructions detailed in the syllabus. There will be daily homework assignments from the text, workbook or supplementary material, which must be completed also before class. Some homework will be collected, and/or graded at the discretion of the instructor. Written assignments must be professionally typed and submitted on time. 

        Spanish will be the language used in class. Any grammar review is not included in the syllabus of this course and it will be your own responsibility to show a good command of Spanish in all the activities for the course. Any question or doubt will be welcome though, and answered in class if the issue is interesting for the rest of the class. If you consider that English is necessary for a specific question or comment, make sure you come to talk to me after class or during my office hours.

        Make sure you have at least one individual active participation in every single class, this is the only way to ensure a good grade and advance in your language learning. You will be given plenty of opportunities to speak and participate in class, but it will ultimately depend on you to make the best of this and practice your Spanish.