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

Academic Year 2024/2025

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

Language Proficiency

The Language Centre (CLA) manages all curricular language proficiency tests for students enrolled at the University of Bologna: https://centri.unibo.it/cla/it/idoneita-linguistica

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*Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (DSA), temporary or permanent disabilities: it is recommended to contact the University’s Disability Services Office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it) and the lecturer as soon as possible.

 

Spanish Tutoring and Monographic Course

Spanish Tutoring: It is essential to change the language in your study plan in a timely manner in order to participate.

Monographic Course:

Migration, Border, and Identity: Latinos in the United States Embark on a fascinating and complex journey to discover the reality of Latinos in the United States. This monographic course, starting in the second semester of 2025 (check Prof. Betti's announcements), will lead us to reflect on the challenges, opportunities, and contradictions faced by a community seeking its identity between two worlds. We will explore crucial topics such as migration, borders, integration, cultural clashes, and the persistence of prejudices (Hispanophobia). Through the analysis of texts, films, documentaries, and firsthand accounts, we will delve into the social, political, and linguistic dynamics that characterize the Latino experience in the United States. The course, structured with preliminary tutoring sessions (1st and 2nd semester) and 30 hours with the professor, will allow you to acquire basic language and cultural skills.

See also: https://corsi.unibo.it/laurea/ScienzePoliticheSocialiInternazionali/il-corso-di-lingua-spagnola-8-cfu

Tutoring The tutoring, starting in September, whose attendance is highly recommended for acquiring basic language skills, aims to introduce students to the characteristics and peculiarities of Spanish as a foreign language, developing the four language skills in a practical way up to the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, providing students with the necessary technical and cultural tools and deepening language skills to promote a more conscious learning of the Spanish language (A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: "Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g., very work). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment and matters

Note: The monographic course will start in the SECOND SEMESTER (2025) and will be structured in preliminary hours (1st and 2nd semester) with tutors and 30 hours with the course teacher (Prof. Silvia Betti).




Readings/Bibliography

Mandatory readings


*Professor Betti's Monographic Course: The material presented in the classroom will be uploaded to VIRTUALE, the University's portal for educational materials. Students are advised to download it during or at the end of the course.

*Non-attending students they will carry out the same program.

N.B. Spanish language exams (attending and non-attending students): Students are informed that the program on this page is valid for both attending and non-attending students.

1 -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 Virtuale

2 -Betti, Silvia y Renata Enghels (eds.) (2020). 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. Also available online: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825525151

*(N.B. No chapters: López and Enghles et al.)

3-Ramos, Jorge (2018). Stranger: El desafio de un inmigrante latino en la era de Trump. New York: Penguin Random House (Vintage espanol). Available in the library or online  https://www.amazon.it/Stranger-desaf%C3%ADo-inmigrante-Challenge-Immigrant/dp/0525563776

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

5- 1 graphic novel of your choice between Bianchini e Ballati: Migrantes. Clandestino verso il sogno americano (Bfs Edizioni, 2015), or Ferraris e Chiocca: La cicatrice, sul confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, Oblomov ed.

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*The program may be subject to change

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-politicalinguistica-multilateral

-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.

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

-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

-Ramos Ávalos, Jorge (2003). Atravesando fronteras. In: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BG22YYU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

-Ramos Ávalos, Jorge (2005 o 2012). La Ola Latina: Como los Hispanos Estan Transformando la Politica en los Estados Unidos. In [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BG22X00/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i10] Sep 11, 2012by Jorge Ramos [https://www.amazon.com/Jorge-Ramos/e/B001IU4T0S?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vu00_tkin_p1_i10]

-Ramos Ávalos, Jorge (2006). La otra cara de América. In https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061130435/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i11

-Ramos Ávalos, Jorge (2006). Morir en el intento. In https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BG22ZBW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4

* Tutor lessons :

Compulsory texts and other materials (reading, audio, video materials…) - aimed at following the lessons and taking the written exam - will be indicated on the tutor web page at the beginning of the course.

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 tests with the tutor and a written test on the monographic program and on the tutored program.

 

*Non-attending students the same program

Teaching tools

Prof. Betti:

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

 

 

Tutor:

Gramática de uso del español

Teoría y práctica.  - Nivel A1-B2 (volume rosso)

Luis Aragonés, Ramón Palencia

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Grammatica spagnola (Zanichelli)

Con esercizi di auto verifica, cd audio per l'ascolto ed esercizi online - Seconda edizione

Lingua in pratica

2015

ISBN-13: 978-8808162465

 

Office hours

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

Links to further information

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/s.betti

Office hours

See the website of Silvia Betti