LINGUA SPAGNOLA

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).

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.

Learning basic morphosyntactic structures integrated from texts belonging to the tourist field and analyzing the main similarities and differences of Spanish and Italian. Further consideration will be given to the knowledge of the most characteristic cultural aspects of Spain and Latin America too.

COMPULSORY BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Castro, F., Uso de la gramática española, Elemental, ed. Edelsa, 2010 (to use for studying Spanish grammar).

Quesada Marco, S., España siglo XXI. Edelsa, 2016. (160 pp., choosing 13 readings).

FURTHER READINGS:

Barbagallo, S., El aprendizaje del español por italófonos. (Actas del XLI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Europea de Profesores de Español AEPE, Universidad de Málaga), Málaga, 2006, pp.12. (http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/aepe/pdf/congreso_41/congreso_41_15.pdf)

González Hermoso, A., Conjugar. Verbos de España y de América, ed. Edelsa, 2011 (only for consulting 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., Sánchez 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 (for consulting contrastive grammar Spanish-Italian).