- Docente: Ruben Tortosa Sanchez
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-LIN/07
- Language: Spanish
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
Students will be expected to be familiar with the basics of Spanish Language and culture - to understand and produce oral and written texts and express themselves fluently and naturally.
Course contents
Lessons will be held twice a week during first term. The first lesson of the week will be mainly focused on grammar and communicative skills. The second will be aimed at strengthening writing techniques. In addition, the course provides an in-depth of the history of Spain through different audiovisual materials and group presentations.
Readings/Bibliography
Reference grammars:
- Gómez Torrego, Leonardo. Gramática didáctica del español. Ediciones SM / Hoepli
- Aragonés, Luis. Gramática del uso del español. Ediciones SM / Hoepli
- Álvarez, Alfredo. Escribir en español: la creación del texto escrito. Ediuno
Other Readings:
- Fernández Álvarez. Pequeña historia de España. Espasa.
Suggested dictionaries:
- Clave, Diccionario de uso del español actual, Ediciones S.M.
- Il grande dizionario di spagnolo, Dizionario Spagnolo-Italiano Italiano-Español, Zanichelli
Novels:
Mandatory readings for the oral exam. The student must choose one book from the following list: El camino by Miguel Delibes; Bajarse al moro by José Luis Alonso de Santos.Teaching methods
This course module requires a 70% student attendance. The lessons will be predominantly seminars, entailing the active participation of all students in class.
Assessment methods
The final examination aims to test theoretical contents as well as language skills. It consists of a written exam (on the grammatical contents) and an oral exam (on the topics of the course programme and on the obligatory readings).
The overall mark of the integrated course “Language and Cultural Mediation: Spanish I (Second Language)” will be the average between the marks obtained for course modules “Spanish Language and Culture I” and “Language Mediation between Spanish and Italian”.
Teaching tools
Computer with beamer, internet resources, audiovisual material and photocopies.
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/ruben.tortosa
Office hours
See the website of Ruben Tortosa Sanchez