SPANISH LANGUAGE I
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- GIULIA GIORGI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
- SSD
- L-LIN/07
Training objectives
- To achieve a Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) B1 level in Spanish language, developing written and oral comprehension and production skills through the analysis of morpho-syntactic and lexical structures of Spanish. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at home, school, leisure; he/she will be able to deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in a Spanish-speaking area. He/She will produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest and will be able to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Prerequisites
- None.
Course programme
- The course will cover the contents of the manuals and the “dispense” used during the year. It will deepen spelling, phonetical, morphological, syntactical and lexical aspects of Spanish language both theoretically and practically. The practical part, taught by native speakers, will aim to practice oral comprehension and expression skills and written comprehension and expression skills, through dictations, written compositions, reading texts and conversation. The theoretical part, held by Prof. Giulia Giorgi, will analyze the language systematically in its phonetic and intonational, morpho-syntactic and lexical aspects; particular attention will be devoted to Spanish-Italian contrastive elements.
Didactic methods
- The course includes presence lectures with student participation and exercises. The lessons of the mother-tongue teachers will deepen the reading and understanding of texts, writing, oral comprehension and expression and translation in homogeneous proficiency groups. The theoretical course, held by Prof. Giulia Giorgi in presence will be dedicated to Spanish-Italian contrastive aspects and to the study of the grammatical structures of the Spanish language.
More information and teaching materials will be upload in Google Classroom (code: lpwebpq). Further materials for non-attending students will be provided in the Classroom. Learning assessment procedures
- Students can choose one of this types of assessment:
a) A final examination in an official date, consisting of a written test and an oral exam.
The written test (1h 45m) consists of various grammar exercises (between 5 and 8, different types: complete, transform, correct) and a written composition. This assessment will be about ALL the contents of the manuals and the “dispense” provided by the teacher. The written composition -the description of a picture, a letter, a text about one of the themes proposed, etc.- will have a minimum length of 250 words and must respect the subject required: the morphological and spelling correction, the use of grammatical structures studied during the course and the consistency and cohesion of the text will be evaluated in this part. The use of vocabulary is forbidden. The test will be passed (18/30) if the student shows a sufficient language and lexical proficiency in the written composition, and completes correctly at least 60% of the grammar exercises. During the oral part, the student must be able to present him/herself (hobbies, habits, projects, etc.) and to interact about ALL the stories of the anthology provided.
b) Two partial tests at the end of each semester (generally in mid-December and mid-May) with a final oral exam.
The contents of each part correspond to the grammatical topics studied in the corresponding semester: the first part consists of various grammatical exercises (between 4 and 6, different types: complete, transform, correct) and a written composition with a minimum length of 200 words; the second part consists of various grammar exercises (between 4 and 6, different types: complete, transform, correct) and a written composition with a minimum length of 250 words. The written composition -the description of a picture, a letter, a text about one of the themes proposed, etc.- must respect the subject required: the morphological and spelling correction, the use of grammatical structures studied during the course and the consistency and cohesion of the text will be evaluated in this part. The use of vocabulary is forbidden. During the oral part, the student must be able to present him/herself (hobbies, habits, projects, etc.) and to interact about the stories of the anthology provided.
In order to access the oral examination, the students must pass both partial tests; the test will be passed (18/30) if the student shows a sufficient language proficiency in the written composition, and completes correctly at least 60% of the grammar exercises. If he/she doesn’t pass one of the two partials, he/she will take the final exam. Those who pass the two partials, but are not satisfied with their marks, are allowed to take the final exam in order to improve their marks. In doing so, of course, they will loose the previous marks, obtained in partials, and will get the final exam mark, whatever it is.
More information will be provided in Lingua spagnola Classroom, code: lpwebpq Reference texts
- Textbook:
Luis Aragonés y Ramón Palencia, Gramática de uso del español A1-A2, Hoepli (ISBN: 9788820342920)
Uso interactivo del vocabulario A-B1, Edelsa (ISBN: 9788477119784)
More teaching materials will be provided by the teacher in the Lingua spagnola Classroom.
Mandatory reading:
Anthology of short stories provided in Lingua spagnola Classroom (in December 2022)
Vocabulary (not mandatory):
Laura Tam, Grande dizionario spagnolo/italiano italiano/spagnolo, Hoepli.
