SPANISH LANGUAGE
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 3° Year - Curriculum Educatore nei servizi per l'infanzia and Curriculum Educatore sociale di comunita'Credit Value: 10
Scientific field: L-LIN/07 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - SPANISH
Taught classes: 120 hours
Term / Semester: One-year
Learning Objectives
The Spanish Language course aims at attaining linguistic skills in written and oral comprehension and production as well as communication skills by means of theoretical and practical lessons which aim to reach the level A2-B1 (MCER).
Course Structure
The teaching method is based on developing communicative competences in Spanish by stimulating active participation of students during the lessons. They will be encouraged to use Spanish language as much as possible in the classroom to facilitate the understanding of complex structures, students will also explore contrastive analysis of Italian and Spanish language patterns.
Detailed Course Content
Learning basic phonetics and morph-syntactic structures integrated from readings which aim at acquiring basic communication skills including the linguistic abilities of written and oral comprehension and production (interaction). In particular, you will analyze the main similarities and differences of Spanish and Italian language, considering the most characteristic cultural aspects of Spain and Latin America too.
Textbook Information
COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Castro, F., Uso de la gramática española, Elemental, ed. Edelsa, Madrid, 2010 (150 pp., to use for studying Spanish grammar).
Barbagallo, S., El aprendizaje del español por italófonos, (Actas del XLI Congreso de AEPE, Universidad de Málaga), Málaga, 2006 (12 pp. in pdf ).
Quesada Marco, S., España siglo XXI. Edelsa, 2016. (160 pp., to use, if necessary, for developing oral communication in Spanish with the language assistant). Choosing 15 readings to take to the oral exam.
Further material will be provided by the professor.
FURTHER READINGS:
González Hermoso, A., Conjugar. Verbos de España y de América, ed. Edelsa, Madrid, 2011 (only to consult verbs).
Barbero, J.C., Bermejo, F, San Vicente, F., Contrastiva. Grammatica della lingua spagnola. Spagnolo-Italiano, ed. Clueb, Bologna, 2010 (to consult contrastive grammar Spanish-Italian).
Garzillo, L., Sñanchez Carrera, A., Gramática por funciones, Clitt, Zanichelli, Roma, 2018 (to consult contrastive grammar Spanish-Italian putting the attention in the communicative functions).
Cuenca Barrero, S., San Sebastián, A., Mazzetti, S., Nueva agenda de gramática. Gramática y léxico, Mondadori education, Milano, 2016 (to consult contrastive grammar Spanish-Italian).