Teaching code

4S002918

Teacher

Renzo Miotti

Coordinatore

Renzo Miotti

Credits

9

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/07 - LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION - SPANISH

Language

Spanish

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 14, 2022 al May 28, 2022.

Lessons timetable

Moodle

Learning outcomes

The course aims at helping students:
– know the basic theoretical concepts of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology;
– know normative aspects of Spanish pronunciation;
– know the phonetic and phonological system of Spanish in contrast with Italian;
– think about phonetic and phonological structures of both languages by means of phonetic transcriptions - do phonetic and phonological transcriptions;
– observe the differences between pronunciation and spelling;
– produce phonetically correct speech.
– acquire the knowledge necessary to implement the teaching of Spanish L2 with special attention to the phonic aspects of the language and to the development of the phonic competence, which is essential for the communicative competence.
Furthermore, B2 language level of competence in Spanish (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is also required.

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:

- Theoretical aspects (phonatory apparatus, phonology, phonetics, phoneme, phone, stress, syllable, etc.)
- Phonetic and phonological contrastive analysis of Italian and Spanish; phonemes, allophones, prosodic aspects.
- Phonetic alphabet.

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.

Bibliografia

Examination Methods