IE · Subject guide
Spanish
Leaving Certificate Spanish (NCCA specification), Higher and Ordinary Level, with the SEC examination.
01 · Overview
Spanish
Leaving Certificate Spanish (NCCA specification), Higher and Ordinary Level, with the SEC examination.
- Subject guide
- Leaving Certificate
- Topics mapped
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02 · Complete topic map
Complete topic map
Every topic recorded for this subject in the curriculum is reproduced below in its full hierarchy. The descriptions reflect the mapped scope without implying additional exam rules.
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Aims and General Outcomes
The overarching goals of the course: building communicative competence in Spanish, awareness of how language and communication work, an understanding of how to learn a foreign language, and cultural awareness.
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Basic Communicative Proficiency
The core component of the syllabus, defining the practical communicative targets learners should be able to perform in Spanish, building on and reactivating the skills developed at Junior Cycle.
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The Learner, Identity and Daily Life
Communicating personal details, family, home, routines and immediate surroundings, including giving and seeking information about name, address, nationality and everyday activities.
- 04
Social Relations and Everyday Transactions
Functional exchanges such as meeting people, making plans, shopping, ordering in restaurants, using services and managing common interactions at home and abroad.
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Leisure, Interests and Lifestyle
Talking about free time, hobbies, sport, holidays, travel and how everyday and seasonal conditions such as weather affect planned activities.
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Education, Work and Future Plans
Discussing school and study, part-time work, ambitions and career or further-study opportunities, including expressing intentions and future or conditional actions.
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The Wider World and Contemporary Issues
Engaging with topics of broader social, political and cultural relevance and forming and expressing opinions on matters affecting young people and society.
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Language Awareness
Developing an understanding of how the Spanish language and communication operate, including grammar, structures, register and strategies that underpin effective use of the language.
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Cultural Awareness
Raising awareness of the cultural, social and political diversity of the Spanish-speaking world and the ability to engage with its everyday and cultural realities.
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Learning to Learn (Language-Learning Strategies)
Acquiring strategies for effective and autonomous foreign-language learning so learners can continue to develop their Spanish beyond the classroom.
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Listening Comprehension (Aural)
Understanding spoken Spanish from recorded conversations, announcements, news and other extracts, answering questions on general meaning and specific detail.
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Reading Comprehension
Extracting meaning and specific information from a range of written texts such as signs, brochures, letters, newspaper and magazine articles and literary extracts.
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Written Production
Producing written Spanish across functional and discursive tasks such as notes, messages, diary entries, formal and informal letters and opinion or reaction pieces.
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Spoken Production (Oral Examination)
Speaking Spanish in a conversation-based examination of personal questions and role-plays, demonstrating control of tenses and the ability to communicate spontaneously.
03 · Where this subject applies
Where this subject applies
These pathways and regions are explicitly connected to the subject in the curriculum.
Levels and pathways
Higher Level
Higher Level — the more demanding level, with broader and deeper content and the H1–H8 grade scale.
Ordinary Level
Ordinary Level — the foundational level covering the core of the syllabus, graded O1–O8.
Regions
All registered regions
04 · Official sources
Official sources
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