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University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1982
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BBC soap opera helps students learn Spanish
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
No one in the Spanish department is saying whether Ramiro the mechanic will leave his small, impoverished car or the thrill and excitement of Madrid
In a successful effort to attract more students to Spanish classes and to make learning a foreign language for the first time easier, the Spanish department has started showing segments of the British Broadcasting Corp. produced elementary Spanish soap opera series "Zarabanda" to Spanish 111 classes, Robert Spires, professor Spanish and Portuguese, said yesterday.
The intensive language classes usually draw 10 students, but Spanish 113
Carla Buck, class instructor, said that enrollment figures for Spanish 11 were double that of department projections.
"We had to sell it at enrollment," he said. "There wasn't a chance for prior publicity."
The instructor and students are amazed by the speed and ease with which they are learning. Most of the students have little or no previous Spanish, Buck said.
"I can't believe their accents," Buck said. "They are doing now what a regular 104 class does after their third week. They're changing genders without thinking about."
TREANNIE HOBBS, South Padre Is
junior said she was impressed
with the team.
"We all walked out of class today amazed by how much we could speak after two days," she said.
"It's easy to learn Spanish by watching someone speaking it," said Joni Shellenberg, Topea junior.
One class member said "Zarabanda"
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"ZARABANDA" IS being used only in the intensive introductory Spanish class this semester, but Spires would like to see the program used in all introductory classes in the future, although he admits the idea is expensive.
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"We luckily got the plan approved right before the budget cuts," he said. "We'd been thinking about the plan for years, but the cost was prohibitive."
Since then its price has come down to one-third to one-fourth of its original
Ermal Garinger, director of the Wescoe language laboratory, said the set of "Zarandaba" video tape casts an atmosphere of intimacy and minute installations of the soap opera.
It would be very expensive to expand the program to all introductory Spanish classes, Garner said. Each extra monitor would cost $800, in addition to the cost of ceiling mounting. There also would be the added cost of security, he said.
"You don't leave a room with $1,000 worth of equipment in it sitting around."
"Zarabanda," a Spanish word meaning anything confusing and disorganized, takes place in Piquera, a small town in Spain.
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Union feeling effects of tight economy
The financial pinch many students feel this year could spell hard times ahead for the Kansas Union and its workers. Employees, Union employees said yesterday.
"We already see signs," said Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union. "We saw this summer, we had decreased volume."
Ferguson said the depressed economy would affect Union services, which include the bookstore, food service, and Student Union Activities, although it might take a while for the effect to trickle down.
"Most certainly anything that affects the campus will affect the Union," said Bob Richardson, Union food service
manager. Richardson said he saw students changing their food buying patterns.
"Students are looking more a value," he said. "They're trying to get a more balanced meal."
Irene Carr, program adviser for SUA, also said students had become more value-oriented.
"it's really part of a two-year trend," said
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Carr said SUA travel and films lost money last year because revenues failed to keep up with operating expenses and personnel costs.
She said the weekend films helped
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"We're trying to keep prices down so students can afford them," Carr said. But she said the Union let SUA know when it went over budget.
Steve Word, Union bookstore general manager, said he could see the effects of the University's cutback in the number of teaching assistants on the distribution of book sales. Word said students unable to get a spot in one class tended to substitute another course rather than take fewer hours, which resulted in an unexpectedly high demand for some books.
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