Ateneo - UPO

The course is divided into two parts: the first 12 hours consist of a theoretical deepening on the grammatical contents studied during the module of SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING (L0179 - LINGUA SPAGNOLA) held by native-speaker lecturers; the remaining 18 hours focus on Spanish for Turism and several types of texts related to it.

Grammar theoretical deepening:
- M. Carrera Díaz (2013), “Grammatica spagnola”, Roma-Bari: Laterza, chapters 1-2, 4-5, 16, 18 e 20;
- material uploaded on DIR.

Spanish for Turism:
- M. V. Calvi (2021), “Lengua y comunicación en el español del turismo”, Madrid: Arco/Libros, pp. 32-88;
- anthology of texts selected by the professor.

Textbooks and all the material will be uploaded on DIR.

The aim of the course is to provide students with: 1) a basic knowledge (synchronic, diachronic and diatopic) in Spanish phonology and morphology; 2) a solid knowledge of the studied phenomena, also from a contrastive perspective (with Italian); 3) useful means for linguistic and discoursive analysis of Spanish turistic texts.

None.

Lectures and seminars with students participation and text analysis.

Students from TURISMO with a 12-CFU exam must also attend and take the exam of the module of SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING (96 hours, held by native-speaker lecturers). See the syllabus of L0179 - SPANISH LANGUAGE.

Further information will be provided on DIR and during the informative meeting held at the beginning of the 1st semester.

The acquisition of the course’s contents and competences will be assessed through a written exam (2 hours) which consists of 3 open questions on the theoretical contents of the course and 1 exercise (analysis of a turistic text).

The exam may be taken in Italian or Spanish.

In theorical questions, students must prove that they are able to explain, in a concise form (but with congruity and awareness) the required content, citing consistent examples aimed at illustrating the phenomena, and expressing with precise terminology and property of language.
In the text analysis, students must prove that they are able to recognise the specific linguistic features of the text and, in general, of Spanish for Turism.

The first 12 hours of the course aims at deepening the following contents (grammatical elements studied during the module of SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING):
- Spanish phonetics, phonology and orthography;
- personal pronouns (subject);
- forms and functions of presente de indicativo;
- uses of ser and estar;
- possessives;
- atonic personal pronouns (direct and indirect object);

The remaining 18 hours will focus on the study of Spanish for Turism and the analysis of texts:
- turistic texts (folletos, anuncios publicitarios, guías turísticas, ecc.);
- basic vocabulary of Spanish for Turism;
- main linguistic features of Spanish for Turism.

By the end of the course, students will know: 1) the fundamentals of Spanish phonology and morphology; 2) the most common elements of turistic texts; 3) the main linguistic features of Spanish for Turism (vocabulary, morphosintax, etc.).
Moreover, they will be able to: 1) recognise standard and diatopic variations in Spanish, also from a contrastive perspective (with Italian); 2) recognise, also starting from concrete examples, the main Spanish phonological and morphological phenomena; 3) recognise and analyse linguistic and discoursive features of several Spanish turistic texts.