69289 - Spanish Language and Culture I (First Language)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Maria Enriqueta Perez Vazquez
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: L-LIN/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student knows the fundamental elements (terms, ideas and methods) for the analysis of the structure, of the functions and of the textual and discursive organization of the spanish language - he/she is able to understand, analyze and provide particularly oral conversations (but also written texts) belonging to the relevant textual kinds, also in multimedial ambits - he/she is capable to spontaneously express him/herself in a very flowing and precise way also in complex commuticative situations.

Course contents

This course aims to consolidate the student's communicative linguistic competence developed during the previous academic years in an italian-german contrastive perspective.The focus is on a deep revision of some specific topics which are significant to the interpreter and translator.Moreover, attention will be also given to the analysis of a variety of texts to pinpoint their peculiarities and to develop the ability to paraphrase, in order to enrich the written and oral production.

Readings/Bibliography

- Aguilar Domingo, María Soledad; Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “¿Qué significa educación?”. Palabras con aroma de mujer. Studi in onore di Alessandra Melloni. María Isabel Fernández García; Mariachiara Russo (eds.), Intralinea, Special Issue.

- Gramática de referencia de la lengua española. (2010), María Lozano Zahonero, Milano: Hoepli.

- Gramática de perfeccionamiento de la lengua española. (2011), María Lozano Zahonero, Milano: Hoepli.

- Martín Aizpuru, Leyre y Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “Los numerales”, GREIT Gramática de referencia de español para italófonos. I Sonidos, grafías y clases de palabras, Félix San Vicente (Dir. Coord.), Bologna: Clueb. Universidad de Salamanca: EUS, pp. 321-346.

- Pérez Vázquez, M. Enriqueta, 2016, “Aktionsart en la contrastividad español-italiano”. Domínguez Vázquez, Mª José & Kutscher, Silvia (eds.), Interacción entre gramática, didáctica y lexicografía: Estudios contrastivos y multicontrastivos, Berlín: de Gruyter, pp. 311-321.

- Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “El infinitivo”, GREIT Gramática de referencia de español para italófonos. II Verbo: morfología, sintaxis y semántica, Félix San Vicente (Dir. Coord.), Bologna: Clueb. Universidad de Salamanca: EUS, pp. 603-632.

semántica, Félix San Vicente (Dir. Coord.), Bologna: Clueb. Universidad de Salamanca: EUS, pp. 731-742.

Teaching methods

Grammatical study (morphosyntactic, semantic and lexicological) of the spanish language aimed to an acquisition of linguistic competence.

Assessment methods

The liaison interpreting exam consists of a brief sight-translation, the first part from Italian to Spanish and the second part from Spanish to Italian, and a liaison interpretation of about 15 minutes.

Teaching tools

The study will be performed through the analysis and the commentary of the texts (audiovisual and written) of spanish current events and culture.

Office hours

See the website of Maria Enriqueta Perez Vazquez