Teaching code

4S002918

Academic staff

Renzo Miotti, Daniel Eduardo Bejarano Bejarano

Coordinator

Renzo Miotti

Credits

9

Language

Spanish

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/07 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - SPANISH

Period

II semestre (Area Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 17, 2025 al May 24, 2025.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

"The course aims at helping students:
– get acquainted with phenomena of the oral language;
– acquire the basic concepts and aspects of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, also with a contrastive approach (Spanish-Italian);
– recognise the difference between pronunciation and orthographic system and know normative aspects of Spanish pronunciation;
– do phonetic and phonological transcriptions and produce phonetically correct speech without L1 interference;
– know the main digital oral corpora created both for specific purposes and for purposes not directly related to the analysis of the phonic components with the objective of appreciating their usefulness and their potential use for a deeper understanding of the Spanish language at phonetic and phonological level.
Expected Spanish proficiency level is B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language."

Prerequisites and basic notions

Spanish proficiency level B2 (or higher) is a prerequisite for sitting the final exam; it corresponds to 3 out of 9 CFU awarded by this course.
Proficiency level validation is based on certificates issued by CLA (Centro Linguistico di Ateneo) or by Instituto Cervantes (the certificate must be validated by CLA and published in the appropriate list) and it is a requirement for the exam with the lecturer for Lengua española 2.
As detailed in "Vademecum normativo per gli studenti dell'Area di Lingue e Letterature Straniere", B2 certificates obtained after 1st October 2024 are valid for three years.
Before sitting the final exam students must have passed and registered the following exams (as stated in "Vademecum normativo per gli studenti dell'Area di Lingue e Letterature Straniere"): Lingua spagnola 1 and Letteratura spagnola 1.
IMPORTANT NOTICES: Erasmus students are REQUESTED to get in touch with the lecturer at the beginning of the course for further information and for the integration of 3 CFU (if applicable).

Program

The course intends to outline the phonetic and phonological systems of contemporary standard Spanish. The fundamental concepts of Spanish phonetics, exemplified in detail with transcriptions, as well as those elements emerging from a contrastive analysis between the Italian and the Spanish systems, will be examined.
Part I of the course will focus on theoretical aspects of this subject, such as the phonatory apparatus, phonology, phonetics, phoneme, phone etc.; Part II will focus on the phonetic and phonological contrastive analysis of Italian and Spanish (phonemes, allophones, phonetic alphabet, prosodic aspects). Part III of the course will focus on practical aspects of this subject: in particular, the theoretical concepts acquired in the first part of the course will be applied to make phonological and phonetic transcription and highlights will be provided on phonetic aspects relating to pronunciation in the digital book market in Spanish language.
All teaching material used during the course (presentations, texts, short essays and articles etc.) is part of the bibliography for the final exam and will be available on the Moodle platform.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Ávila, Raúl (2011): “El español neutro (?) en los medios de difusión internacional”, in Raúl Ávila (ed.), Variación del español en los medios, México, El Colegio de México, pp. 17-30 (PDF on Moodle).
- Canepari, Luciano; Miotti, Renzo (2013), Pronuncia spagnola per italiani. Fonodidattica contrastiva naturale, Roma, Aracne: ch. 4. Per conoscer l'intonazione, pp. 65-77, and ch. 7. Minipronunciario, pp. 107-142.
- Cordón-García, José-Antonio (2018): “Leer escuchando: reflexiones en torno a los audiolibros como sector emergente”, Anuario ThinkEPI, v. 12, pp. 170-182 (PDF on Moodle).
- RAE-ASALE, Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Fonética y Fonología, Barcelona, Espasa Libros, pp. 435-441 and 466-472 (PDF on Moodle).

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures will be supported by Powerpoint presentations and by multimedia material. Some lectures will be devoted to phonetic transcriptions.
Guidelines and teaching materials will be uploaded in the Moodle platform of the module. In addition, the lecturer is available during his office hours.
Finally, specific support and tutoring activities are available for inclusion and accessibility, with particular regard to the Language and Literature courses in the French, English, Russian, Spanish and German areas. More information will be available on the Department's webpage.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam consists of a test on theoretical and practical questions related to the course program, the bibliography and the didactic materials provided in e-learning mode. Both the formulation of the questions and the answers will be made in writing and in Spanish. The test consists of open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions and exercises. Some require metalinguistic reflection, the ability to detect phenomena handled throughout the course and to provide examples of them. For students who do not attend class, the program and the form of evaluation are the same.
IMPORTANT NOTICES: Erasmus students are REQUESTED to get in touch with the lecturer at the beginning of the course.
It will be possible to take the exam with the program and methods indicated until the extraordinary session of January/February 2026.

Evaluation criteria

The exam will be a written test that will ascertain the depth of knowledge acquired on the topics on the syllabus, as well as the correct use of language, the terminological precision, and the ability to connect the information as a network of knowledge.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final mark will be expressed in a scale of 30 and will be the arithmetic mean between the grade obtained in the written test (18/30 minimum) and the grade from the Spanish proficiency exam (converted in a scale of 30 in accordance with the indications detailed in “Vademecum normativo per gli studenti dell'Area di Lingue e Letterature Straniere").

Exam language

Spagnolo - Español