How to I generate a <span> tag

I'm having a problem generating this HTML is my _header.rhtml.

<div class="cssnav"><a href="/" title="Home"><img src='/images/ over.jpg' alt='label'><span>Home</span></a></div>

I know I need to use the link_to and image_tag but I have not been able to generate the <span>

This is the basic code

<div class="cssnav"> <% if request.path_parameters['controller'] == "home"%>

  :controller => 'home', :action => 'index' <% end % </div>

link_to(image_tag('image_file_name'), content_tag('span', 'link location'))