SPANISH LANGUAGE I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0004

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Spanish Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SOLINAS MARCELLA

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

228

Prerequisites:

None.

Objectives

At the end of the course, students will :
- have acquired the reading and oral comprehension skills, as well as the writing and speaking skills of level A2
- have a metalinguistic awareness and knowledge of contrastive issues between Italian and Spanish relatively to the A2 level.

Contents

The aim of the class is to guide students to the acquisition of level A2 of CEFR.
Moreover, students will be expected to develop a metalinguistic awareness through a Spanish-Italian contrastive analysis of the main grammatical topics of A2 level.

Extended Syllabus

This course aims to bring students closer to a number of fundamentals of the Spanish language (phonetics/phonology, orthography, lexical morphology) as well as their practical usage in a number of possible scenarios.
Essential communication skills:
• asking for/giving out information;
• discussing routine, past/future events, ability, possession, like/dislike;
• ordering, inviting, locating, giving advice
comparing, describing events/places;
• talking about experiences;
• approving and disapproving.
Grammar content analysis through contrastive approach.

Recommended Bibliography

REFERENCE GRAMMAR
Gramática básica del estudiante de español (ed. Difusión)

READING
Students need to read two among the following books for the oral exam
- El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Gabriel García Márquez)
- Triste, solitario y final (Osvaldo Soriano)
- Patagonia Express (Luis Sepúlveda)
- Arrugas (Paco Roca)
- Caperucita en Manhattan (Carmen M. Gaite)

Students need to take into account materials that will be available on TEAMS

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OTHER REFERENCES:
Competencia gramatical en uso. Nivel a1. Libro del alumno (ed. Edelsa) Competencia gramatical en uso. Nivel a1. Claves (ed. Edelsa) Competencia gramatical en uso. Nivel a2. Libro del alumno (ed. Edelsa) Competencia gramatical en uso. Nivel a2. Claves (ed. Edelsa) DICTIONARIES
Monolingual vocabulary: Diccionario Clave
Bilingual vocabulary: Il Grande Dizionario di Spagnolo (Zanichelli).

Teaching Methods

The course consists of: (a) classes held by the instructor(s); (b) practical sessions held by the lector(s).
The classes offered by the instructor(s) include both lectures (aimed at providing the necessary theoretical background) and seminars (with students' active participation).
The practical sessions with the lector(s) are highly interactive and are necessary to acquire the language skills needed to successfully complete the final exam.
For these reasons, attendance of both the instructors' and lectors' classes is strongly recommended.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam has two parts:
Written exam
A2 level, especially reference material
You need to pass the written exam to do the oral exam Oral exam
A2 level
Metalinguistic knowledge about A2 level Readings (see above).

Contacts/More Information

SYLLABUS VALIDITY
The syllabus is valid for the whole 2023/2024 academic year (until the exam session of January/February 2025). For the final grade to be officially registered, students must have successfully completed all the parts of the exam by the last session of the 2023-2024 academic year.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
The syllabus is the same for all students, whether attending or not: non- attending students will autonomously revise and practice the contents and the oral and written skills relative of A2 level, possibly using all the reference material indicated above.

STUDENTS WITH 6 cfu SPANISH LANGUAGE EXAMINATION
Students who have opted for the 6 cfu Spanish Language 1 examination will have to take the written and oral examination. The syllabus for the oral examination includes the reading of a single text to be chosen from those listed in the bibliography. They are exempt from the Lector test.

INSTRUCTORS' OFFICE HOURS
Information about office hours can be found here: https://www.lingue.unich.it/node/6857
Students are kindly requested to regularly check the page for date/time changes.

LECTOR SESSIONS
The language skills of A2 level are also developed and practiced during the practical sessions with the lector(s). Attendance of these sessions is therefore essential in order to reach the target language level and for oral and written exam preparation.
Information about the lectors and the linguistic center are available at cla.unich.it.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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