74776 - Spanish Language (8 Cfu) (A-L)

Academic Year 2019/2020

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students have good actives and passives skills in Spanish language; students are able to read, take notes, follow a discussion in Spanish and in particular to use the politic and media technical language of the Spanish cultures.

Course contents

THE COURSE WILL START IN 2nd semester (2020) and will be  structured in hours with the tutor (dott. Brandani |A-L|, and 30 hours with the teacher of the course, prof. Silvia Betti, A-L.

This course and program is aimed at students who will attend in the second sem. of 2020, not those who are in debt for the exam and who will have to refer to Dr. Buttazzi's program: https://iol.unibo.it/course /view.php?id=36591#section-3 (in case they want to take the exam in the 2020 winter session).

*Title of the course A-L: Migrazione, frontiera e identità. I latinos negli Stati Uniti.

Latinos in the United States are historically, culturally and socially different from other minority groups. This study deals with the life of Latinos in theUnited States, their difficult migration, border issues, their dual identity and their language.

The course, which will start around March 2020 (the tutors will indicate the starting date during the lesson), will address a topical issue concerning aspects related to the Spanish language and Latinos in the United States. In fact, Latinos in the United States are a different historical, cultural and social reality than that of other minorities. During the course we will make some reflections on the life of Latinos in the United States, on the difficult migration to the Anglo-Saxon country, the problems related to the border, the language, the dual identity of those who live between two worlds.

Readings/Bibliography

PPT presentations (IOL unibo) and:

-Betti, Silvia (2019). "Mestizaje cultural, hibridación, identidad...". En Silvia Betti y Matteo De Beni (eds.). Conversaciones sobre el español en los Estados Unidos. Charleston: Axiara, pp. 31-45. In IOL

-Betti, Silvia (2019). “Este es un país donde hablamos inglés, no español”. La presencia del español en los Estados Unidos de Trump”. En Silvia Betti (ed.). Norteamérica y España: una historia de encuentros y desencuentros. (Cultural Studies). Bayside, NY (USA): Escribana Books/Artepoética Press, pp. 243-250. In IOL

-Davis, Mike (2001). I Latinos alla conquista degli Usa. Milano: Feltrinelli. ISBN 88-07-10315-X

-Ors Ausín, Alicia (2019). “Nuevas formas en política: de la rigidez española al engagement americano”. En Silvia Betti (ed.). Norteamérica y España: una historia de encuentros y desencuentros. (Cultural Studies). Bayside, NY (USA): Escribana Books/Artepoética Press, pp. 218-223. In IOL

-Ramos, Jorge (2018). Stranger: El desafio de un inmigrante latino en la era de Trump. New York: Penguin Random House (Vintage espanol).

N.B.

Any additions and / or modifications will be made during the course

Recommended reading:

-Badillo Matos, Ángel (2018). "Torres y muros frente al multiculturalismo: hispanos y español en la presidencia de Donald Trump", disponible en: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/wcm/connect/75135fc7-259a-406d-a0ce-39fa06f2763d/ARI11-2018-BadilloMatos-Torres-muros-multiculturalismo-hispanos-espanol-Trump.pdf

-Badillo Matos, Ángel y Hernández Rosana (2019). “El español se cuida solo”: desafíos para una geopolítica lingüística del español ante el horizonte multilateral”, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, Documento de trabajo, DT 2/2019, disponible en:http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_es/contenidoWCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/zonas_es/lengua+y+cultura/dt2-2019-badillo-hernandez-espanol-cuida-solo-politica-linguistica-multilateral

-Betti, Silvia (2020). “Mi Casa (Blanca) no es tu Casa (Blanca)”. El ‘efecto Trump’ en el español en los Estados Unidos”, en Betti, S. y Enghels, R. (eds.), El inglés y el español en contacto en los Estados Unidos. Reflexiones acerca de los retos, dilemas y complejidad de la situación sociolingüística estadounidense. Aracne: Roma.

-Betti, Silvia (2011). “Yo quería cruzar la línea...” . Migrazione, frontiera e identità. I latinos negli Stati Uniti", Confluenze (Università di Bologna), 3, n° 1, pp. 107 - 125.

-Betti, Silvia (2008). El Spanglish ¿Medio eficaz de comunicación? Bologna: Pitagora.

-Informe Instituto Cervantes (2019). EL ESPAÑOL: UNA LENGUA VIVA, disponible en: www.cervantes.es › espanol_lengua_viva_2019[https://www.cervantes.es/imagenes/File/espanol_lengua_viva_2019.pdf]

-Lacorte, Manel y Jesús Suárez García (2014). "La enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos: panorama actual y perspectivas de futuro", Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 1:2, pp. 129-136. disponible en: https://doi.org/10.1080/23247797.2014.970358

-Stavans, Ilan (2017). "Trump, la muralla y el español". The New York Times, disponible en: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2017/01/26/trump-la-muralla-y-el-espanol/

Teaching methods

Lectures and cooperative learning. The lessons will require the active participation of students (engaged in the acquisition of the content and processes necessary for the mediation) through discussions, "role play", various presentations and tutorials.

Assessment methods

The final Spanish language exam will be structured in oral tests with the tutors and a written test on the monographic program and on the tutored program.

The final exam of Spanish language will be structured in oral tests in itinere with the tutors and a written test both on the monographic program and on the tutoring program. The marks of the oral / s in itinere and of the written test will be average.

*Non-attending students are asked to contact the tutors and the teacher before the exam session (in Italian or Spanish).

Teaching tools

Prof. Betti, A-L:

For lectures will be used Power Point, audio and video media, photocopies, etc.

 

Online materials:

*Grammatica: https://langschool.eu/courses/intermediate-es/grammar.es.html

*Esercizi con soluzioni: http://www.todo-claro.com/c_index.php

*Dizionari on line:

*http://www.wordreference.com

*http://dle.rae.es/?id=DgIqVCc

 

Office hours

See the website of Betti Silvia [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/s.betti/en]

Links to further information

https://unibo.academia.edu/SilviaBetti

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Betti