Ateneo - UPO

Spanish Language - SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING II.

B. Sarralde, E. Casarejos e M. López [2022], “Vitamina B2”, SGEL [Libro del alumno + Cuaderno de Ejercicios]. 1 MANDATORY READING for IN-CLASS ORAL PRESENTATION, to be chosen between: 1) Pedro Salinas, “La voz a ti debida”; 2) Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, “Los mares del Sur”, Serie Carvalho. *** 1 MANDATORY READING for the ORAL EXAM, to be chosen between: 1) Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, “Carreteras secundarias”; 2) David Trueba, “Abierto toda la noche”.

The aim is the acquisition of an intermediate linguistic competence (CEFR B2 level), adequate to the academic contest and needs.

Students must have passed the exam of SPANISH LANGUAGE TRAINING of the 1st year.

Workshops and linguistic labs, exercises, homework and other practical activities that aim at the improvement of active and passive linguistic skills and competences [reading, listening, writing and speaking].

Further material will be provided in class and/or uploaded on DIR. *** Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities. Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

The acquisition of the course’s theoretical contents and competences will be assessed through the following mandatory exams: 1) Dictation and written test on Spanish grammar [duration: 3 hours], which consists of approximately 10 grammar exercises and 1 written composition [around 200 words]. 2) Oral exam, aimed at assessing the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and communicative competences [CEFR B2 level], starting from the mandatory readings. *** EVALUATION CRITERIA: Students will pass the first part of the exam if, first of all, they get at least 5 out of 10 points in the dictation; then, they will have to answer correctly to at least 60% of the grammar exercises and prove, in the written composition, a correct use of verb tenses, discourse markers, etc., and a good grammaticality of the writing [according to CEFR B2 level]. The oral exam will be passed if the student is able to have a conversation about quite complex topics [also related to the mandatory readings], using grammarly correct forms. *** The final mark is based on the average of the grades of the written and the oral exams. To pass the whole exam, students must reach the minimum grade [18/30] in both its parts. *** LEARNING SUPERVISION IN ITINERE: In-class and at-home tests on the course topics; grammar tests [with exercises], compositions, dictations, oral comprehensions and translation. Compulsory readings and in-class presentations: see bibliography above. Self-learning sessions [Language Centre].

Spanish grammar; listening and reading comprehension, writing, and oral expression; cultural issues. Grammatical contents: conditional of all regular and irregular verbs; revision of irregular verbs; completion of the study of regular and irregular verbal morphology; use of future, conditional, affirmative and negative imperative; adversative conjunctions and locutions; doubtful and exclamatory sentences; use of the subjunctive; hypothetical period and conditional phrases; direct and indirect speech [use of tenses and modes]; substantive, indirect interrogative, final, temporal, causal, concessive and relative subordinations; prepositional reggences of the main Spanish verbs; verbal periphrases with infinitive, participle, gerund.

By the end of the course, students will know and recognise linguistic and extralinguistic data needed for an interlinguistic communication according to CEFR B2 level. Moreover, they will be able to: 1) comprehend the main ideas of complex oral and written texts concerning abstract and concrete topics; 2) interact fluently with native speakers; 3) produce clear and detailed texts on a wide range of topics, and express their point of view and debate about pros and cons; 4) use profitably textbooks and other written and oral material, also available online.