Spanish Iii and Mediaition

This course aims to strengthen the students' sociolinguistic competence with regard to diaphasic and contact varieties of Spanish, and to develop appropriate metalinguistic skills. Students will hone their ability to understand and produce texts of a personal nature (biographical interview and linguistic biography), as well as oral discourses, whether they be autonomous presentations or interactions with other people. Mediation skills will also be trained, with a focus on the vocabulary of the business and administration sectors. The course is both theoretical/descriptive and practical; it will promote the use of new technologies for learning Spanish in various contexts and examine different analysis techniques (discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics).
Students will also acquire some grammatical and syntactic structures of the Spanish language, with particular reference to verbal periphrases and discourse markers.

By the end of the course, students are expected to reach at least a C1 level in Spanish under the CEFR, including proficiency in written and oral communication with regard to a wide range of specialised topics (politics, economics, social sciences and tourism). Moreover, they should be able to describe the contents of the course in Spanish, and analyse texts and adopt mediation strategies in the above-mentioned contexts on their own.