Accreditation in Languages for Business Spanish - 1 year course AS

Course Description

A new and innovative professional accreditation, which is a practical and meaningful pathway suitable for a wide range of students. It encourages learners to use language skills for career enhancement and economic benefit and is ideal as an enrichment course.

Further Information about our courses including results

Group sizes for could be small meaning that you have access to very personalised teaching with lots of individual support. This is perfect for developing both your confidence and ability in the subject.

Qualification

Accreditation worth 16 UCAS points AS

Course Content and Teaching Units

Business language in Spanish in four areas: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

Graded pass, merit, distinction combining 6 end of module assessments (using supporting notes) and a final closed book assessment.

A combination of 6 end of module assessment tasks which count for 40% and two final closed book assessments which count for 60%. Candidates are graded pass, merit or distinction.

The teacher schedules the timings of the assessment tasks. However the final assessment is set for a specific date. There is one final assessment series per year in early summer. Dates are confirmed annually.

Learners are allowed to use their notes during the assessments tasks but only have one attempt. Learners should not see the actual task brief until the point where they are due to prepare and take the task.

In the final assessments candidates do not have access to support materials apart from the assessment resources themselves. The speaking and listening is 20 minutes. The reading and writing is 50 minutes.

Grade 4 at GCSE in the language.

There are frequent reports about the need for language skills in the workplace in order to boost the UK economy and also to enhance the career prospects of our future workforce.