69967 - Spanish Language (in Buenos Aires)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students can: - understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. - deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. - produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. - describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Course contents

GRAMMAR, PHONOLOGY, AND VOCABULARY

• vocabulary: urban spaces, transport, time and seasons, weather, numbers, colors, everyday objects and life, housing, health, food, sport, geography, family, economic transactions, entertainment, environment, culture, traveling, labor, history, politics, literature
• main phonological and orthographic aspects of the Argentinian standard variety of Spanish;
• grammar: modo indicativo - presente indicativo (verbi regolari e irregolari); tener (descriptivo)/haber (impersonal); ser/estar; tener que/tener ganas de; imperativo affermativo e negativo; descrizioni: aggettivi; dare indicazioni; proibizioni e obblighi; por/para; a/en; pronomi personali, riflessivi, oggetto diretto, oggetto indiretto; possessivi; comparativi; interrogazione; esprimere preferenze: me gusta/me encanta, etc.; uso del condizionale semplice; futuro semplice e perifrastico; preterito imperfetto; passato remoto verbi regolari e irregolari; voce passiva; estar/tener; tempi composti; participi regolari e irregolari; trapassato prossimo; usi del congiuntivo; discorso indiretto; subordinate temporali, modali, finali e condizionali.

Readings/Bibliography

de Souza Faria, J., E. Stefanetti e I. Hojman (2014). Maratón ELE. Buenos Aires: Eudeba. (TESTO GUIDA DEL PROGRAMMA DEL CORSO)

Si suggeriscono i seguenti materiali consultabili online gratuitamente:

https://zonaele.com/gramatica-espanola/

papELEs [https://marcoele.com/gramatica-a/] (nivel A)

ELEfante [https://marcoele.com/elefante/00.contenidos.pdf] (nivel B)

Altri testi di consultazione suggeriti:

AA.VV., Español para extranjeros, Nivel 2. Buenos Aires, UBA, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

AA.VV., Aula del Sur, Nivel Elemental. Barcelona: Voces del Sur.

Corpas, J., A. Garmendia y Carmen Soriano (2017) Aula Internacional 2. Barcelona: Difusión.

Teaching methods

• Pragmatic, functional, and communicative approach.
• Focus on the development of the reading comprehension strategies of academic texts.
• Intercultural study of Argentinian contemporary society based on written and audiovisual resources.
• The lack of the typical full immersion experience (due to the pandemic) will be compensated by research on different cultural inputs.
• Structural, morphologic , and syntactic compared analysis.
• Collaborative work.

Assessment methods

• Final oral exam.
• Presentations and written texts produced during the course.

Teaching tools

Audiovisual material, apps, online resources, texts, games.

Office hours

See the website of Leonora Sandra Madalena Carbajal