Spanish for Linguitics Studies I

During the course, students will acquire the most important skills in terms of language acquisition. They will learn and practice communication, grammar, and vocabulary (both written and orally), as well as will be acquainted with basic concepts of linguistics. The latter will provide them the possibility to delve into the scientific study of language.

It is expected that by the end of the winter term students, starting from beginner level, will acquire both active and passive skills on the lower intermediate level.

The main objective of the course is to develop students’ communicative and grammar abilities, both orally and in writing. The course also includes elements of linguistics, centered around not only functional, but also formal and structural properties of sentences; learning about the semantic structure of sentences, or understanding of how the context of speech act affects the choice of language forms.

The goal is also to develop students’ awareness in terms of phonetics and phonology and the dynamic structure of language code used in the context of the culture of Spain and the Spanish-speaking Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Finally, the course, due to the linguistics-centered approach, should result in the enhancement of students’ ability to use Spanish, to participate in academic discourse at subsequent stages of the study. It is expected that students will perceive language as an object of interest and research.

Student

I. Can play an active role in communication, reacts as an active receiver to the statements related to everyday life topics; can understand the main meaning of communication directed at him/her; is aware of the formal differences that exist between several variants of a particular statement.

II. Can communicate in simple and routine conversation, using the help of the interlocutor if necessary, but also he/she is able to keep a simple conversation going; is aware of the performative character of language and speech acts.

III. Is aware that different texts, of which he/she is the author or receiver, belong to the different categories of statements.

IV. understands informative and descriptive texts, as well as those about his/her studies and interests; can find specific information in available sources.

V. is able to write brief descriptions of events and activities (also in the past tense), is able to verify and correct linguistic mistakes in his/her own writings.

VI. is able to read and write different types of correspondence, especially personal letters; completes forms and surveys.

VII. is aware of the specificity of the Spanish language (e.g. the dominating role of the verb) as opposed to the Polish; perceives the heterogeneity of registers and the different scope of concepts in both codes, as well as syntactic differences.

VIII. becomes aware of the importance of the formal aspect of statement for its interpretation.

1. GRAMMAR SKILLS:

· Regular and irregular verbs

· Agreement (nouns, adjectives, determiners)

· Adjectives and adverbs

· Pronouns

· Periphrastic constructions

· Conjunctions, prepositions

· Declarative and imperative modes

· Past tenses: Pretérito Perfecto, Indefinido, Imperfecto.

· Tense markers

2. LEXICAL SKILLS:

· Names of countries and nationalities

· Professions

· Colours

· Ordinal and cardinal numbers

· Days of the week, months and seasons

· Adjectives used to describe a person: physical features and personality traits

· Vocabulary related to the city: addresses, means of transport, government offices and shops

· Vocabulary related to the home: furniture, objects.

· Clothing

· Means of transport

· Family and social relations

· Everyday activities

· Leisure activities

· Food, dishes, and eating habits

· Body parts, health, and illnesses

· Dialogues in a clothing store, at a station, in a restaurant

· The weather

· Travel vocabulary

3. COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

· Greetings and introductions

· Asking for clarification and repetitions

· Asking for personal data and providing information about oneself

· Expressing ownership and belonging

· Asking for directions, describing places

· Describing a person’s appearance and personality traits

· Describing interests, tastes, and preferences

· Talking about daily activities

· Talking about one’s own free time

· Describing duties and personal needs

· Buying tickets, clothes, and food

· Describing the weather

· Talking about health, body parts, illnesses, and symptoms

· Expressing own opinions

· Fixing appointments, accepting and rejecting proposals

· Description of past events

· Description of people, places, habits, and customs of the past

· Comparing customs from the past and the present

· Issuing commands, invitations, attracting/directing attention.

4. CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES:

· Polite forms

· Habits and customs in Spanish-speaking countries

· Christmas and New Year traditions in Spain and Latin America

5. TEXT TYPES IN SPANISH:

· Descriptive: descriptions of people and places

· Narrative: stories, fairy tales, biographies

· Expository: press, information brochures

· Dialogues: interviews, job interviews.

· Instructional: user guides, recipes

· Informational: letters, e-mails.

6. LANGUAGE-RELATED KNOWLEDGE:

· Introduction of basic linguistic terminology in Spanish

· Basics of Spanish syntax

· Lexical (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and functional (articles, pronouns, prepositions) categories in Spanish

· Syntactic functions (subject, predicate, object)

· Pronunciation practice with references to phonetics (vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs, main phonetic differences, diacritics, Spanish intonation patterns, accent)

7. ORTOGRAPHY/SPELLING:

· Spanish diacritics and punctuation marks.

· Spelling rules (c/qu/k, y/ll, r/rr, digraphs ch & ll)

Recommended textbooks:

• Método de español para extranjeros Nuevo Prisma, FONCUBIERTA J.M., Edinumen, Madrid, 2014.

• Nuevo Ven I, CASTRO F., y otros, Edelsa, Madrid, 2007.

• Aula Internacional Nueva Edición 1, CORPAS J., GARCÍA, E., Difusión, Barcelona, 2013.

• Aula Internacional Nueva Edición 2, , CORPAS J., GARCÍA, E., Difusión, Barcelona, 2013.

• Español sin fronteras, SÁNCHEZ LOBATO J. y otros, SGEL, Madrid, 2005 (1998).

• Curso de español para extranjeros: Nuevo ELE, BOROBIO V., Ediciones SM, Madrid, 2003.

• Gente Nueva Edición, MARTIN E. y otros, Difusión, Barcelona, 2004.

• Rápido, curso intensivo de español, MIQUEL L., SANS N., Difusión, Barcelona, 2000.

Books of grammar:

• Gramática básica del estudiante de español, ALONSO R. y otros, Difusión, Barcelona, 2005.

• Gramática de uso del español. Teoría y práctica con solucionario, ARAGONES L., PALENCIA R., Ediciones SM, Madrid, 2005.

• Prisma de Ejercicios (Comienza), CASADO M.A y otros, Edinumen, Madrid, 2004.

• Prisma de Ejercicios (Continúa), AIXALÁ E. y otros, Edinumen, Madrid, 2004.

• Uso de la gramática española (nivel elemental), CASTRO VIUDEZ F., Edelsa, Madrid, 2003.

• Uso de la gramática española (nivel intermedio), CASTRO VIUDEZ F., Edelsa, Madrid, 2003.

• Gramatyka języka hiszpańskiego, CYBULSKA-JANCZEW M., PERLIN J., PWN, Warszawa, 2006.

• Gramática comunicativa del español, t.1, MATTE F., Edelsa, Bonn, 2008.

• Abanico, M. D. Chamorro Guerrero [et.al.], Difusión, Barcelona, 2010.

Phonetics:

• Fonética, entonación y ortografía, Gonzáles Hermoso, A., Romero Dueñas, C., Ed. Edelasa, 2002.

• Fonética (nivel elemental A2), ÁLVAREZ MARTÍNEZ, Ma. Á. (coord.) Anaya, Madrid, 2008.

• Other materials:

- CD’s, audiovisual materials;

- Lecturas graduadas (adaptations), basic and secondary level;

- Narraciones españolas para estudiantes extranjeros, LUQUE DURÁN J.D., ed. SGEL, 2004.

- Historias para conversar, niveles: básico y medio, SILES ARTÉS J., Ed. SGEL, 2004.

• Dictionaries:

-- Nowy słownik hiszpańsko-polski, polsko-hiszpański, MURCIA SORANO A., MOŁNIEWICZ K.,Warszawa, 2003, Harald G.

- Clave: diccionario de uso del español actual, MALDONADO GONZÁLEZ C., Madrid, 2003, Ediciones SM.

- Diccionario Didáctico de Español Intermedio, HERAS FERNÁNDEZ DE LAS J.A., RODRÍGUEZ ALONSO M., Madrid, 1994, Ediciones SM.

- Diccionario Práctico de Gramática, CERROLAZA GILI O., Madrid, 2005, Edelsa.

- Themed dictionaries

The condition of the approval is:

- attendance and activity during the classes (2 absences allowed);

- getting a min. 65% of the 40 points possible to reach.

The final result consists of:

• control tests (4 per semester) 20 p.

• written works (summaries, essays) - 10 points

• presence and activity - 10 p.

Since the classes are run online, control tests will be also conducted online.

Detailed assessment criteria will be given in the course of the classes.

During each of the stages of assessment, there’s being taken into serious consideration the requirement of shaping in the students the level of awareness of their knowledge, as well as the understanding of the need for constant development – both factors included in the learning outcomes. Thus, the ability to correct imperfections of one's own speech, a strive to express a given content with a higher degree of complexity and the capacity to hold a dialogue, are being highly evaluated.

During the course, students will acquire the most important skills in terms of language acquisition. They will learn and practice communication, grammar, and vocabulary (both written and orally), as well as will be acquainted with basic concepts of linguistics. The latter will provide them the possibility to delve into the scientific study of language.

It is expected that by the end of the winter term students, starting from beginner level, will acquire both active and passive skills on the lower intermediate level.

The main objective of the course is to develop students’ communicative and grammar abilities, both orally and in writing. The course also includes elements of linguistics, centered around not only functional, but also formal and structural properties of sentences; learning about the semantic structure of sentences, or understanding of how the context of speech act affects the choice of language forms.

The goal is also to develop students’ awareness in terms of phonetics and phonology and the dynamic structure of language code used in the context of the culture of Spain and the Spanish-speaking Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Finally, the course, due to the linguistics-centered approach, should result in the enhancement of students’ ability to use Spanish, to participate in academic discourse at subsequent stages of the study. It is expected that students will perceive language as an object of interest and research.

Student

I. Can play an active role in communication, reacts as an active receiver to the statements related to everyday life topics; can understand the main meaning of communication directed at him/her; is aware of the formal differences that exist between several variants of a particular statement.

II. Can communicate in simple and routine conversation, using the help of the interlocutor if necessary, but also he/she is able to keep a simple conversation going; is aware of the performative character of language and speech acts.

III. Is aware that different texts, of which he/she is the author or receiver, belong to the different categories of statements.

IV. understands informative and descriptive texts, as well as those about his/her studies and interests; can find specific information in available sources.

V. is able to write brief descriptions of events and activities (also in the past tense), is able to verify and correct linguistic mistakes in his/her own writings.

VI. is able to read and write different types of correspondence, especially personal letters; completes forms and surveys.

VII. is aware of the specificity of the Spanish language (e.g. the dominating role of the verb) as opposed to the Polish; perceives the heterogeneity of registers and the different scope of concepts in both codes, as well as syntactic differences.

VIII. becomes aware of the importance of the formal aspect of statement for its interpretation.

1. GRAMMAR SKILLS:

· Regular and irregular verbs

· Agreement (nouns, adjectives, determiners)

· Adjectives and adverbs

· Pronouns

· Periphrastic constructions

· Conjunctions, prepositions

· Declarative and imperative modes

· Past tenses: Pretérito Perfecto, Indefinido, Imperfecto.

· Tense markers

2. LEXICAL SKILLS:

· Names of countries and nationalities

· Professions

· Colours

· Ordinal and cardinal numbers

· Days of the week, months and seasons

· Adjectives used to describe a person: physical features and personality traits

· Vocabulary related to the city: addresses, means of transport, government offices and shops

· Vocabulary related to the home: furniture, objects.

· Clothing

· Means of transport

· Family and social relations

· Everyday activities

· Leisure activities

· Food, dishes, and eating habits

· Body parts, health, and illnesses

· Dialogues in a clothing store, at a station, in a restaurant

· The weather

· Travel vocabulary

3. COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

· Greetings and introductions

· Asking for clarification and repetitions

· Asking for personal data and providing information about oneself

· Expressing ownership and belonging

· Asking for directions, describing places

· Describing a person’s appearance and personality traits

· Describing interests, tastes, and preferences

· Talking about daily activities

· Talking about one’s own free time

· Describing duties and personal needs

· Buying tickets, clothes, and food

· Describing the weather

· Talking about health, body parts, illnesses, and symptoms

· Expressing own opinions

· Fixing appointments, accepting and rejecting proposals

· Description of past events

· Description of people, places, habits, and customs of the past

· Comparing customs from the past and the present

· Issuing commands, invitations, attracting/directing attention.

4. CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES:

· Polite forms

· Habits and customs in Spanish-speaking countries

· Christmas and New Year traditions in Spain and Latin America

5. TEXT TYPES IN SPANISH:

· Descriptive: descriptions of people and places

· Narrative: stories, fairy tales, biographies

· Expository: press, information brochures

· Dialogues: interviews, job interviews.

· Instructional: user guides, recipes

· Informational: letters, e-mails.

6. LANGUAGE-RELATED KNOWLEDGE:

· Introduction of basic linguistic terminology in Spanish

· Basics of Spanish syntax

· Lexical (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and functional (articles, pronouns, prepositions) categories in Spanish

· Syntactic functions (subject, predicate, object)

· Pronunciation practice with references to phonetics (vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs, main phonetic differences, diacritics, Spanish intonation patterns, accent)

7. ORTOGRAPHY/SPELLING:

· Spanish diacritics and punctuation marks.

· Spelling rules (c/qu/k, y/ll, r/rr, digraphs ch & ll)

Recommended textbooks:

• Método de español para extranjeros Nuevo Prisma, FONCUBIERTA J.M., Edinumen, Madrid, 2014.

• Nuevo Ven I, CASTRO F., y otros, Edelsa, Madrid, 2007.

• Aula Internacional Nueva Edición 1, CORPAS J., GARCÍA, E., Difusión, Barcelona, 2013.

• Aula Internacional Nueva Edición 2, , CORPAS J., GARCÍA, E., Difusión, Barcelona, 2013.

• Español sin fronteras, SÁNCHEZ LOBATO J. y otros, SGEL, Madrid, 2005 (1998).

• Curso de español para extranjeros: Nuevo ELE, BOROBIO V., Ediciones SM, Madrid, 2003.

• Gente Nueva Edición, MARTIN E. y otros, Difusión, Barcelona, 2004.

• Rápido, curso intensivo de español, MIQUEL L., SANS N., Difusión, Barcelona, 2000.

Books of grammar:

• Gramática básica del estudiante de español, ALONSO R. y otros, Difusión, Barcelona, 2005.

• Gramática de uso del español. Teoría y práctica con solucionario, ARAGONES L., PALENCIA R., Ediciones SM, Madrid, 2005.

• Prisma de Ejercicios (Comienza), CASADO M.A y otros, Edinumen, Madrid, 2004.

• Prisma de Ejercicios (Continúa), AIXALÁ E. y otros, Edinumen, Madrid, 2004.

• Uso de la gramática española (nivel elemental), CASTRO VIUDEZ F., Edelsa, Madrid, 2003.

• Uso de la gramática española (nivel intermedio), CASTRO VIUDEZ F., Edelsa, Madrid, 2003.

• Gramatyka języka hiszpańskiego, CYBULSKA-JANCZEW M., PERLIN J., PWN, Warszawa, 2006.

• Gramática comunicativa del español, t.1, MATTE F., Edelsa, Bonn, 2008.

• Abanico, M. D. Chamorro Guerrero [et.al.], Difusión, Barcelona, 2010.

Phonetics:

• Fonética, entonación y ortografía, Gonzáles Hermoso, A., Romero Dueñas, C., Ed. Edelasa, 2002.

• Fonética (nivel elemental A2), ÁLVAREZ MARTÍNEZ, Ma. Á. (coord.) Anaya, Madrid, 2008.

• Other materials:

- CD’s, audiovisual materials;

- Lecturas graduadas (adaptations), basic and secondary level;

- Narraciones españolas para estudiantes extranjeros, LUQUE DURÁN J.D., ed. SGEL, 2004.

- Historias para conversar, niveles: básico y medio, SILES ARTÉS J., Ed. SGEL, 2004.

• Dictionaries:

-- Nowy słownik hiszpańsko-polski, polsko-hiszpański, MURCIA SORANO A., MOŁNIEWICZ K.,Warszawa, 2003, Harald G.

- Clave: diccionario de uso del español actual, MALDONADO GONZÁLEZ C., Madrid, 2003, Ediciones SM.

- Diccionario Didáctico de Español Intermedio, HERAS FERNÁNDEZ DE LAS J.A., RODRÍGUEZ ALONSO M., Madrid, 1994, Ediciones SM.

- Diccionario Práctico de Gramática, CERROLAZA GILI O., Madrid, 2005, Edelsa.

- Themed dictionaries

The condition of the approval is:

- attendance and activity during the classes (2 absences allowed);

- getting a min. 65% of the 40 points possible to reach.

The final result consists of:

• control tests (4 per semester) 20 p.

• written works (summaries, essays) - 10 points

• presence and activity - 10 p.

Since the classes are run online, control tests will be also conducted online.

Detailed assessment criteria will be given in the course of the classes.

During each of the stages of assessment, there’s being taken into serious consideration the requirement of shaping in the students the level of awareness of their knowledge, as well as the understanding of the need for constant development – both factors included in the learning outcomes. Thus, the ability to correct imperfections of one's own speech, a strive to express a given content with a higher degree of complexity and the capacity to hold a dialogue, are being highly evaluated.