31307 - Spanish Linguistics and Language 3 (M-Z)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has a thorough knowledge of metalanguage and various aspects of a descriptive-analytical model of the Spanish language and is competent in all communicative skills at level C1 of the parameters set by the Council of Europe.

Course contents

The teaching of Spanish Language and Linguistics 3 COGNOMI M-Z is divided into two courses taught by two different teachers, respectively Professor Binacchi for the FRONTAL THEORETICAL LESSONS-LEZIONI FRONTALI (lessons from March to May) and Professor Partesotti for the PRACTICAL LESSONS OF PRACTICE OF THE LANGUAGE-ESERCITAZIONI- (annual course, lessons from September to May).

 LECTURES PART- lezioni frontali - Prof.ssa BINACCHI

consists of two parts:

MODULE 1:

Lingüística de la comunicación (Communication Linguistics). The aim is to initiate the student into the systematic study of the organization of information within the text in Spanish:

-Theoretical concepts.

-Acts of language

-The courtesy of language.

-Non-verbal communication

MODULE 2:

Los lenguajes especializados (Specialized languages). The aim is to initiate the student into the linguistic analysis of specialized texts regarding advertising, mass media, politics, economy, tourism, etc.

Slides of the lessons, materials and resources used in the classroom will be made available on the course page in the Virtuale platform to which the student must register. 

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.

NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

The syllabus, content and testing of the course DOES NOT differ between attending and non-attending students to classes.
Non-attending students can contact the teacher for additional readings.

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PRACTICAL LANGUAGE CLASSES-Esercitazioni- ON SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 3

(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.

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.

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.

Readings/Bibliography

PROFESSOR BINACCHI (FRONTALI LECTURES):

COMPULSORY READINGS A.A. 2025-2026

The texts for compulsory reading will be available at the LILEC Department Library and in VIRTUALE.

A) Dossier de lecturas: Lingua e Linguistica Spagnola 3

1. Escandell Vidal, M. V. (2014). “La Teoría de la Relevancia y sus implicaciones para la enseñanza de lenguas extraneras”, En J. Falk, J. Gille, & F. Wachtmeister Bermúdez (Eds.), Discurso, interacción e identidad. Homenaje a Lars Fant, pp. 231-254. Stockholm University.

2. Graciela Reyes, “Lo dicho y lo implicado”, en El abecé de la pragmática, Madrid: ArcoLibros, pp.38-49

3. Heraclia Castellón Alcalá (2009), “Hacia la claridad en los textos administrativos”, Revista de Llengua i Dret, núm. 52, pp. 85-115

4. Calvi, María Victoria (2016), “Léxico de especialidad y lengua del turismo”, en Aura Luz Duffé Montalván (ed.) Estudios sobre el léxico, Peter Lang, pp. 188-214

5. Lourdes M. (2004) “Lengua y Cultura desde una perspectiva pragmática: algunos ejemplos aplicados al español”, redELE: Revista Electrónica de Didáctica ELE (*disponible en IOL), s.p.

6. Yin Xin (2016), “La Teoría de los actos del habla”, en Las teorías de los actos del habla, TFM, pp. 5-33

7. Calvi, María Victoria, Cristina Bordonaba Zabalza, Giovanna Mapelli, Javier Santos López, Las lenguas de especialidad en español, Roma, Carocci, (úl. ed.), pp. 15-23; 75-99; 101-120

B) Reference Handbook

Contrastiva : grammatica della lingua spagnola / J. C. Barbero, F. Bermejo, F. San Vicente. - 3. ed. riveduta e corretta
Bologna : Clueb, 2018

C) Slides, notes and materials provided by the teacher.

PROF.SSA PARTESOTTI (ESERCITAZIONI CLASESS)

 READINGS A.A. 2025-2026

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

During the lectures there will also be guided and semi-guided activities to facilitate the acquisition of content and meta-linguistic reflection, through presentations and multimedia content. All materials used, slides, presentations, documents, multimedia resources will be made available on the course page of the Virtuale e-learning platform.


During the lessons, guided and semi-guided activities are carried out to facilitate the acquisition of the structures and functions of the language. The study of LS is based on the practice of production skills (oral and written) and reception skills (oral and written comprehension). The focus of oral production is on different communicative situations, the specificity of different codes and registers, prossemics and non-verbal communication. Guided in-depth activities are proposed to stimulate a personalized reflection to share with other learners.

Assessment methods

Assessment methods (lectures -lezioni frontali - prof.ssa BENEDETTA BINACCHI)

Oral exam in Spanish (C1 level) both about the contents of the syllabus (class notes, "materiali didattici" of Virtuale) and about the required readings (see bibliography) in order to certify the acquisition of knowledge and skills.

Expression ability, completeness and correctness of the acquired contents, coherence and cohesion, and conversational skills are taken into consideration for the evaluation.

The student shall succeed the written and oral exams of the ESERCITAZIONI (Practices classes on Spanish Language) in order to access the oral exam of Spanish Language and Linguistics 3.

The result of the ESERCITAZIONI exams is taken into consideration for the final evaluation.

NB: To take the exam of Spanish Language and Linguistics 3, you must have already taken Spanish Language and Linguistics 1 and 2

 

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.

 

ASSESSMENT METHODS PROF.SSA PARTESOTTI (ESERCITAZIONI CLASESS):

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 METHODS PROF.SSA BINACCHI (FRONTALI CLASESS):

The lectures will take place in front-end mode using multimedia and paper presentations and materials to facilitate the use of content and stimulate meta-linguistic reflection, including through semi-guided activities and exercises.

 

TEACHING METHODS PROF.SSA PARTESOTTI (ESERCITAZIONI CLASESS):

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.

 

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