Spanish 2 (MA)

The course is the last step in the two-year course of learning/acquisition of the Spanish language in the context of advanced study of the foreign language. At a theoretical level, it deepens the analysis of colloquial speech with particular attention to the discourse markers; with active practice, it also develop critical tools for scientific pragmalinguistic research. On a practical level, the aim is to initiate students starting from a minimum level of C1 to the acquisition of the communicative competence of level C1+ of the CEFR, with which the student "[ ] understands a wide range of complex and long texts and he/she recognises the implicit meaning. He/She expresses himself/herself with gentleness and naturalness. He/She uses the language in a flexibly and effectively way for social, professional, and academic purposes. He/She can produce clear, well-constructed, detailed texts on complex topics, showing a secure control of the textural structure, connectors and cohesion elements."

The expected results in terms of knowledge and understanding are that the student acquires secure bases of speech analysis and conversation analysis and can recognize the structures of the colloquial register of Spanish. In terms of soft skills, the student can get to critically manage the methodology of pragmalinguistic analysis, can train to express orally a well-argued position, becomes autonomous in the recognition of linguistic structures in order to learn by himself also out of an educational context, and experiences activity analysis of the dynamics of groups in cooperative learning. The expected results in terms of applied skills are the ability to conceive the language as a socially and culturally contextualized practice, the ability to vary the register in one's own productions and the ability of pragmalinguistic analysis. In addition, the level C1 is expected to be reached for all linguistic-communicative activities: reception (listening and reading), production of texts, presentations and oral interactions.