95385 - Spanish Language and Linguistic Exercises 3 - B

Learning outcomes

PRACTICAL LANGUAGE CLASSES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 3

AA. PROGRAM 2025-2026- (ANNUAL COURSE)

DOTT.SSA MARINA CLAUDIA PARTESOTTI (GRUPPO M-Z)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The practical Spanish language classes -esercitazioni- aim at understanding oral, expository and dialogical texts on various topics, with different language registers and diversified uses of language. Students at the end of the course must: understand written texts concerning contemporary reality and cultural topics. Recognize a range of text types and their structures. Know how to expose and/or illustrate oral discourses in a clear and fluent way. Learn how to properly interact in different communicative situations. Produce written texts respecting coherence and cohesion on complex Issues, show a correct use of the mechanisms of organization, articulation and text cohesion. Acquire analysis and synthesis capacities. Constantly exercise the linguistic analysis in order to know in detail the LS operation system, analyse the student’s own mistakes, correct the language interferences between Spanish and Italian through translation exercises. Consolidate and acquire standard vocabulary and specific languages vocabulary; metaphoric constructions, polysemy, lexical variety depending on the language register and the type of text, phraseological collocations, idioms, study of proverbs, etc.

Course contents

CONTENTS

The specific contents, texts and obligatory materials will be indicated in detail and published by the Collaborators and Linguistic Experts at the beginning of the courses.

Readings/Bibliography

READINGS

Compulsory texts and other materials (reading, audio, video materials…) adopted to follow the lessons and to prepare the written and oral exams, will be indicated in the specific program of each CEL at the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

TEACHING METHODS

Guided and semi-guided activities will be held during the lessons in order to facilitate the acquisition of language structures and functions. The course is based on the practice of both oral (speaking and listening) and written (writing and reading) skills. In order to improve the speaking skills, the course focuses on a range of communicative situations, the specificity of different linguistic codes and language registers, proxemics and non-verbal communication. Different guided activities are proposed in order to stimulate the student’s own opinion and further discussion with other students.

Assessment methods

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The final assessment of the course consists of a written exam that students must pass before being admitted to the oral exam (students must have at least a 18/30 mark on the written exam in order to take the oral exam). The practical language classes on Spanish Language and Linguistics 3 (esercitazioni) final mark is calculated through the average mark of the written and the oral exam.

WRITTEN EXAM

The written exam consisting of:

different exercises in order to assess reading skills, morpho-syntactic, lexical and cultural knowledge;

Italian-Spanish translation;

Writing skills on a range of texts (argumentative – descriptive -narrative, concerning the topics and texts indicated on the Practical Language classes (Esercitazioni di lingua e linguistica 3) program.

Through the written exam the following skills will be evaluated:

morpho-syntactic, lexical and cultural knowledge requested in a C1 level according to the Common European Framework;

writing skills on different types of texts;

Italian-Spanish translation;

compulsory texts and reader.

The use of the dictionary is not permitted

ORAL EXAM

The speaking ability test consist of a conversation in Spanish with the teacher in order to evaluate:

morpho-syntactic, lexical and cultural knowledge requested in a C1 level according to the Common European Framework;

listening skills;

fluent speaking skills;

interaction skills;

compulsory texts.

Details of required texts will be made available at the beginning of the course by the native-speaker language experts (CEL).

ERASMUS STUDENTS

N.B. This course DOESN’T admit ERASMUS students from Spanish Universities (Departments of Spanish Philology) due to didactic (contents) and organization reasons. Only those students who have indicated PRAGMATICS in their Learning Agreement will be admitted. ERASMUS students coming from European Universities must contact the Esercitazioni professor Marina Partesotti and the Linguistic professor Benedetta Binacchi within the first two weeks of the course in order to understand the required linguistic level, programmes and assessment methods of both parts. Students who don’t contact the indicated professors at least three months before the exam will not be admitted to the exam.

Teaching tools

TEACHING TOOLS

The mandatory texts and other adopted materials (paper, audio, video, etc.) to follow the lessons and to support the written and oral test will be indicated in the specific program of the Exercises of each Collaborator and Language Expert at the beginning of the course

Students with SLDs or temporary or permanent disabilities: we suggest that you contact the relevant university office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and your professor immediately to work together to find the most effective strategies for attending classes and/or preparing for exams.

Any requests for accommodations must be made at least 15 days before the date of the exam, by sending an email to the lecturer and copying (Cc) the email address [disabilita@unibo.it](mailto:disabilita@unibo.it) (in case of disability) or [dsa@unibo.it](mailto:dsa@unibo.it) (for students with Specific Learning Difficulties).

Office hours

See the website of Benedetta Binacchi