SPANISH LANGUAGE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- LAURA RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/07
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is for students to reach a basic competence of the Spanish language, comparable to level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference. During the course we will study the grammatical units and structures shared by most Hispanic speakers, together with some of the main phenomena of diatopic variation. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the essential points of clear messages on familiar topics in standard language. They will be able to interact in different situations that may arise while traveling in a Spanish-speaking region. They will be able to produce simple and coherent texts on familiar topics, to describe experiences, events and projects, and to briefly expose reasons and opinions.
Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites.
Course programme
- - Grammatical contents:
Orthography:
The alphabet. Diacritics and stress. Characteristic punctuation marks of Spanish.
Phonetics and phonology:
Segmental features:
articulatory characteristics of phonemes.
Morphology and syntax:
Declension (gender and number). Definite and indefinite articles, numerals, quantifiers, demonstratives and possessives. Personal, direct and indirect object, interrogative, exclamatory and relative pronouns. Comparative and superlative forms.
Conjugation of regular and irregular verbs: present simple, present perfect, preterite, imperfect, future and imperative. Nonfinite verbs. Pronominal verbs. Uses of haber-estar, ser-estar, ir-venir. Verbal periphrasis with infinitive.
Adverbs. Coordinative (copulative, disjunctive and adversative) conjunctions. Prepositions.
- Communicative contents:
Offering and requesting basic information. Describing habits, experiences, past events and future actions. Locating, identifying, describing and comparing. Communicating intentions, preferences, likes, interests, desires and emotions. Expressing opinions, stating agreement or disagreement, counter-arguing. Giving instructions or advice. Didactic methods
- The course includes lectures and workshops, both in-person.
The lectures will focus on the study of the units of grammatical analysis, their morphological information and their combinatorial properties. The approach will be descriptive, synchronic and contrastive with Italian.
The workshops will be aimed at consolidating linguistic and communicative skills in groups of homogeneous competence.
Further information and materials will be made accessible through Google Classroom (code: yxrr6ak). Learning assessment procedures
- The final examination will consist of a written test. The test will focus on all the contents of the manuals and handouts provided. The use of dictionary will not be allowed. The test will be considered sufficient (18/30) if the student will show at least sufficient linguistic and lexical knowledge and if he/she completes at least 60% of the exercises correctly.
Reference texts
- Required textbooks:
Luis Aragonés e Ramón Palencia, Gramática de uso del español A1-A2, Hoepli, 2009.
Ángeles Encinar, Uso interactivo del vocabulario A-B1, Edelsa, 2012.
A handout of grammar, exercises and other materials will be made available on the Spanish language Classroom.
Recommended dictionary (not required):
Laura Tam, Grande dizionario spagnolo/italiano italiano/spagnolo, Hoepli, 2021.
