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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Spanish Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
A2 of CEFR for Spanish (verified by successful completion of Spanish Language 1 (1st year), required to access this class)
Objectives
Contents The module is split into two parts:
- B1 Spanish: this part guides students to the acquisition of the communicative skills required by the B1 level of CEFR. To this end, it combines functional, grammatical and cultural contents needed for the comprehension and production of (written and oral) texts of different nature (i.e., descriptive, expositive, and argumentative texts).
- Spanish varieties: this part explores the geography of the Spanish language, guiding students to the identification of the linguistic traits characterising different diatopic varieties of peninsular and American Spanish.
Extended Syllabus B1 Spanish:
Language and Communication: functional contents
- Requesting, providing and rectifying information: reporting other people’s speech, adding information and explaining motivations, consequences, conditions and aims.
- Expressing one’s opinion: judgements, assessments, agreement and disagreement.
- Expressing knowledge and degree of centrainty: formulating hypotheses, expressing doubts, reservations, probability.
- Expressing obligation, permission and possibility.
- Expressing feelings, preferences, wishes: surprise, fear, regret, complaints.
- Discourse structure: reformulations, digressions, topic change.
- Managing oral communication: self-corrections, paraphrasing, repetition, summing up.
Language as a system: grammatical contents:
- Morphology and use of the subjunctive mode.
- Direct and indirect speech: grammatical transformations.
- Frequent phrasal verbs.
- Subordinate clauses: noun clauses (with infinitive, indicative and subjunctive); conditional, final, modal, concessive and consecutive clauses (with indicative and subjunctive, and introduced by the most frequent conjunctions or conjuctive phrases).
Language and Culture:
- Culture and civilization of Spanish speaking countries.
- Spanish varieties:
- Geography and demography of the Spanish-speaking world
- Peninsular Spanish: multilingualism in Spain; Spanish in contact with other peninsular languages; differentiation of dialects of peninsular Spanish; the Castilian variety; the Andalusian variety
- Spanish in America: historical and social factors in the differentiation of the Spanish language in the American continent; Mexican Spanish; Argentinean Spanish
Recommended Bibliography - Sans, N., Martín, E., Muntal, J., Acquaroni, R., Conejo, E. (2018). Bitácora 3, Nueva edición. Barcelona: Difusión.
- Further class material will be made available online and offline by the instructor
- Reference grammar: Alonso, R., Castañeda, A., Martínez, P., Miquel, L., Ortega, J., Ruiz, J.P. (2011). Gramática básica del estudiante de español. Barcelona: Difusión.
- Moreno, F., Otero, J. (2007), Atlas de la lengua española en el mundo, 2a Edición, Fundación Telefónica.
- Moreno, F., Otero, J. (2016), Atlas de la lengua española en el mundo, 3era Edición, Fundación Telefónica.
Teaching Methods - Lectures
- Seminars
- Practical sessions and other online and offline learning/teaching support activities organised by the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Assessment for this module consists of:
- Written exam (evaluation is expressed with a mark out of 30): comprehension and production of written texts; grammar cloze test; questions on the notions and skills acquired in the Spanish varieties module.
- Oral exam (evaluation is expressed with a mark out of 30): class presentation or oral exam on the cultural contents of the module.
The final mark is the arithmetic mean of the marks obtained in the written and oral exams.
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