Ateneo - UPO

Spanish language training [CEFR B1 level] for LETTERE, FILOSOFIA E COMUNICAZIONE, PROGETTAZIONE E GESTIONE DEL TURISMO and other Degree Programmes with a 3-, 6- or 12-credit exam of SPANISH LANGUAGE.

1) F. Rosales, T. Moreno et al. [2017], “Campus Sur”, Difusión [Libro del alumno. Curso intensivo A1-B1 + Cuaderno de Ejercicios]; 2) Didactic material uploaded on DIR. *** For the ORAL EXAM, students will have to read the following book: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, “El capitán Alatriste”.

The course aims at practising and improving passive and active linguistic skills [reading, listening, writing and speaking]. Particularly, the aim is the acquisition of basic knowledge and competences that permit students to comprehend and produce oral and written texts, and to properly use Spanish grammar according to CEFR B1 level.

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Practical activities, grammar exercises, dictation exercises, writing activities, reading comprehension and conversation.

Lectures and course contents of group D are only for students from LETTERE, FILOSOFIA E COMUNICAZIONE, TURISMO and other Degree Programmes other than LINGUE. Students from LINGUE must, instead, follow lectures and course contents of groups A, B or C. *** Students from LETTERE with a 3-credit exam will only need to attend the first 60 hours. *** For students from PROMOZIONE E GESTIONE DEL TURISMO (or other Degree Programmes) with a 12-credit exam of SPANISH LANGUAGE, such course is part of the integrated course EC0565 - LINGUA ED ESERCITAZIONI DI SPAGNOLO *** At the beginning of the academic year, a Vademécum ー including detailed information about exams, exam calls, SEN, Erasmus, etc. ー is published on each DIR page of the courses of Spanish Language and Linguistics. The reading of such document is mandatory for all students. *** 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, must refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

For students from LETTERE, FILOSOFIA E COMUNICAZIONE and other Degree Programmes [other than LINGUE], the acquisition of the course’s theoretical contents and competences will be assessed through the following mandatory exams: 1) WRITTEN TEST on Spanish grammar and civilization [duration: 3 hours], which consists of approximately 5-10 grammar exercises [multiple choice, filling the gap, etc.] and 1 written composition [around 150 words]; 2) ORAL EXAM, aimed at assessing the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and communicative competences [CEFR B1 level] starting also from the mandatory reading. Students must take their own book to the exam, plain and with no notes on it. *** EVALUATION CRITERIA: Students will pass if they 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 B1 level]. The oral exam will be passed if the student is able to convey personal information and opinions on everyday, domestic and common 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.

Spanish grammar and Iberian civilization. Grammar contents: Spanish phonetics-phonology and orthography, definite and indefinite articles; nouns and adjectives [morphology]; use of ser, estar, haber and tener; adjectives and possessive, demonstrative and numeral pronouns; the comparison; all the times of the indicative of the regular and irregular verbs; subjunctive present; use of the most frequent prepositions; personal and impersonal forms of obligation; regular past participles and morphology of the gerund; regular and irregular past participles; affirmative and negative imperative of the regular and irregular verbs.

By the end of the course, students will know: 1) Spanish grammar and Iberian civilization, according to CEFR B1 level; 2) the phonological and orthographic system of Spanish language. Moreover, they will be able to: 1) comprehend and produce written and oral texts in Spanish according to its phonological and orthographic rules; 2) use basic morphological and syntactic elements in a proper way and according to CEFR B1 level; 3) recognise and judge linguistic and extra-linguistic data needed for the interlinguistic communication; 4) communicate in activities which require a personal information and opinion exchange on domestic and common topics; 5) describe in a grammatically correct Spanish issues and aspects of their own background or everyday life, and express immediate needs or briefly share personal experiences and opinions.