69475 - Spanish Language and Culture III (Second Language)

Learning outcomes

The student:

• Understands and produces a wide range of written texts and complex oral discourses in Spanish, expressing themselves fluently and spontaneously at C1 level;
  
• Communicates fluently and correctly in different registers (colloquial, neutral, formal, academic) at C1 level;
  
• Makes detailed and well-structured oral presentations on complex topics;
• Uses idiomatic and colloquial expressions and distinguishes connotative levels of meaning.

Course contents

The course aims to consolidate the students’ communicative language skills acquired so far and to deepen their linguistic knowledge at C1 level. Special attention will be given to the analysis and production of different types of texts and to the development of reformulation and paraphrase skills, in order to enrich their oral and written production.

The main topics of study will be:

• Relative clauses
• Adverbial subordinate clauses
• The passive voice
• The subjunctive mood
• Word formation
• Discourse markers in academic texts
• Verbal periphrasis
• Clitic pronouns
• Writing workshop: academic writing
  

Readings/Bibliography

Dictionaries:
- DRAE Diccionario Real Academia Española (1992). Diccionario de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
- Clave, Diccionario de uso del español actual, Madrid: Ediciones S.M.
- Moliner, María (2002). Diccionario de uso del español (DUE-Versión CD Rom), Madrid: Gredos.
- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia, Ramos Gabino; (2000). Diccionario abreviado del español actual, Madrid: Grupo Santillana.

Course topics:

- Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “Las perífrasis de 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. 633-660.

- Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “Las perífrasis de participio”, GREIT Gramática de referencia de español para italófonos. II Verbo: morfología, sintaxis y

- Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta, 2013, “Los pronombres clíticos”, 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. 247-274.

Grammars:

- 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.

Teaching methods

Communication and grammar in Spanish aimed at the acquisition of a linguistic competence at C1 level through a communicative method based on:

• Lecture-based sessions
• Discussions
• Cooperative learning
• Practice through new technologies
• Practice in the classroom
• Assignment
• Individual research
• Oral presentation

The lessons are face-to-face and require the students’ active participation with oral presentations and discussions related to the Spanish-speaking world.

The course requires the student to attend at least 70% of the lessons.

Assessment methods

Evaluation criteria entail both coursework and a final exam.

The former foresees the delivery of 2 assignments that will be worth 30% of the final mark.

The exam at the end of the course includes a written test to assess the students’ grammar and communication skills and an oral test to assess their ability to explain and argue.

The final exam mark will be the average between the result of the written test and that of the oral test.

Please, note that:

Only the students who pass the written test can take the oral test.

Teaching tools

Dossier provided by the teacher, online documents, written texts, audiovisual material. All contents, materials and resources will be available on VIRTUALE.

E-learning platform (VIRTUALE), PC, video projector.

Office hours

See the website of Ignacio Sanchez Mosquera