SPANISH LANGUAGE 3

The course Spanish Language 3 and Latin american 3 consists of a theoretical module in the second semester and a full year Spanish language course. The overall aim of the module is to explore pragmatic concepts and phenomena and analyze how these influence the comprehension and production of messages in Spanish. The overal aim of the Spanish language course ("esercitazioni") is to introduce the students to semantics and lexical-semantic relations and to bring them to a level of communicative competence at the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Learning outcomes are assessed through a written and oral exam at the end of the course.

This course is intended for students of the International Political Curriculum.

1. Knowledge and understanding
Theoretical course: pragmatic competence, basic concepts of pragmatics, relationships between vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics in the Spanish language.
Full year language course: grammatical, lexical, pragmatic and discursive contents at C1 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

2.Applying knowledge and understanding
Ability to identify and understand the main pragmatic phenomena (violation of a maxim, inference, etc.); ability to analyse, from a pragmatic point of view, utterances and oral, written and audiovisual texts in Spanish, differentiating the utterance meaning from the speaker's meaning and to identify communicative acts; ability to identify any pragmatic differences between utterances or communicative interactions in Italian and Spanish.
Ability to understand and produce written and oral texts with the degree of correction, coherence and adequacy required at the level C1 of the CEFR; ability to interact in a colloquial conversation with the degree of adequacy required at the level C1 of the CEFR.

3. Making judgments
Ability to make judgements regarding the use of pragmatic-communicative strategies and mechanisms in Spanish utterances and texts based on linguistic reflections; ability to display communication skills on a C1 level and to make judgements on grammaticality, correctness and adequacy.

4. Communication skills
Ability to explain on a basic level contrastive differences between pragmatic phenomena on Spanish and Italian; ability to apply the terminology of linguistics to describe the pragmatic phenomena of the Spanish language; ability to interact in Spanish language in communicative situations at a C1 CEFR level; ability to put into practice linguistic competence at a C1 level in order to present issues raised during the metalinguistic module.

5. Learning skills
Ability to perform analysis and synthesis; self-assessment, bibliographical research and planning and drafting the final thesis research.

B2 level. Good knowledge of the Spanish grammar.

1. Introduction to pragmatics
2. Basic concepts of pragmatics in the Spanish language
3. Pragmatic strategies and phenomena in Spanish language communication

Language training:
Grammatical, phonetic-graphic, lexical, textual contents; functional exponents in Spanish at C1 level CEFR.

Compulsory bibliography:
- Escandel, M.V. (2013, 3a ed.). Introducción a la pragmática. Barcelona: Ariel.
- Reyes, G. (2011, 9a ed.): El abecé de la pragmática. Madrid: Arco Libros.

Complementary bibliography:
- Portolés, J. (2012): Los marcadores del discurso. Barcelona: Ariel.

Linguistic training:
VV.AA. (2017): C de C1. Libro del alumno y Cuaderno de ejercicios. Barcelona: Difusión.
Cassany, Daniel (1995): La cocina de la escritura, Barcelona: Anagrama.

Students’ learning is assessed via a written exam structured in two parts as follows:

- a written part (i) consisting of a multiple choice and gap filling cloze for assessing linguistic competence (C1) (40% of the final mark);
- a written part (ii) consisting of three open questions for assessing metalinguistic competence in Pragmatics of Spanish as well as written skills (60% of the final mark).

Both parts are scheduled in the same day.
Duration (part i + part ii): 100 min.

In order t o get an overall pass in Lingua Spagnola 3 (LT0071) or Lingua Ispano-americana 3 (LT007Q), students must:
- get a mark equal to or greater than 60% in the written part (i)
- get a mark equal to or greater than 60% in the written part (ii)

No partial marks will be kept for the following exam sessions.

Students holding a DELE certificate of C1 level (or higher) linguistic competence must only take part A, on the condition that the date of the exam is at the latest two years prior to the date in which the certificate was obtained and that they provide the lecturer with a paper or electronic copy (both sides) of the certificate. No other certificates shall be accepted. Mark achieved on DELE certificate (x/100) will be converted into a x/30 mark, regardless of the DELE certificate level.

Frontal lectures; practical exercising.
Self-assessment exercising through MOODLE platform.
Mentoring programs

Metalinguistic module lessons will take place during the second semester. Practical language training will take place during the whole academic year.
Students who are unable to complete their classroom preparation by attending lectures are invited to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the academic year and at the beginning of the second semester.

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