Communication Skills in Spanish I.

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Teaching results

Knowledge:
The thematic focus of the course reflects the professional specificities of the study, including knowledge of the sociocultural aspects of Hispanophone countries. The course focuses on practical language, developing students' linguistic communication skills in Spanish in accordance with the requirements of their field of study. The student will become familiar with the linguistic devices of the different genres, such as narration, description, reflection, etc. They will acquire active learning strategies to develop listening and reading comprehension. They will learn to understand non-verbal forms of communication.
Competences:
The student can reliably convey detailed information, express ideas with sufficient precision, and develop discussion on familiar topics. The student is able to work with a wide range of authentic spoken and written texts in Spanish and to carry out follow-up tasks and activities. Can create and comprehensibly develop monologic genres such as narration, description, reflection, etc., as well as engage in dialogue with a Hispanophone communication partner.
Skills:
Upon completion of the course, the student will have attained communication skills that will enable him/her to understand and communicate appropriately in oral and written expressions in the target language. The student will be able to initiate, maintain and terminate communication by effectively alternating with a communication partner. The student is able to adapt his/her means of expression to the situation and the recipient. Can adapt to changes in the course of a conversation. Can use linking expressions effectively to convey the relationship between ideas.

Indicative content

 Narrative communication skills – storytelling as a stylistic procedure and a unit. Talking in typical and atypical situations.
 Descriptive communication techniques – description as a stylistic procedure and unit.
 Argumentation communication techniques – argumentation, controversy, discussion, debate.
 Interpretive and reflection communication techniques – interpretation and reflection style procedure.
 Dialogized speech – dialogues in selected communication situations.
 Linguistic means of narration, description, argumentation, explanation, reflection and dialogue.

Support literature

Required:
1. HIGUERAS GARCÍA MARTA.: DidactiRed IV Competencias generales, Madrid, Ediciones SM – Instituto Cervantes, 2006
2. HIGUERAS GARCÍA MARTA.: DidactiRed V Actividades de la lengua y estrategias (comprensión, expression, interacción y mediación), Madrid, Ediciones SM – Instituto Cervantes, 2006
3. DÍAZ LOURDES., AZMERICH MARTA.: La destreza escrita. Madrid, Edelsa Grupo Didascalia, S.A., 2003
4. VÁZQUEY GRACIELA.: La destreza oral, Madrid, Edelsa Grupo Didascalia, S.A., 2000
Optional:
1. CALSAMIGLIA, HELENA, TUSÓN, AMPARO.: Las cosas del decir. Manual de análisis del discurso. Barcelona: Ariel, 1999
2. CASTELLCÀ, JOSEP MARIA.: Las tipologías textuales y la enseñanza de la lengua, Textos de Didáctica de la Lengua y de la Literatura, n.º 10, pp. 23-31, 1996
3. MARTÍN ZORRAQUINO, MARÍA ANTONIA, PORTALÉS, JOSÉ.: «Los marcadores del discurso». En Bosque, I. y Demonte, V. (dirs.). Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1999, pp. 4051-4213
4. MENDOZA FILLOLA ANTONIO, ROMEA CASTRO CELIA, CANTERO SERENA FILLOLA.: Didáctica de la lengua y la literatura para una sociedad plurilingüe del siglo XXI. Barcelona: Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura - Universitat de Barcelona, 1997, pp. 3-12

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Spanish

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 18.05.2022