General Spanish Language II

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Expansion of students‘ vocabulary, related to selected topics.
- Acquiring the basic knowledge concerning both the historical development of Spanish and the sources from which the Spanish vocabulary has drawn or draws.
- Gaining orientation in the context of the existing world varieties of Spanish and an overview of the Spanish language standard.
Competences:
- Boosting students’ ability to perceive the level of formality, informativeness, and accessibility of a text.
- Improvement of students’ ability to express themselves actively, in a grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate manner.
Skills:
- Development of students’ language skills.
- Emphasis is laid on the development of students’ ability to produce texts with the required stylistic parameters.
- Expansion of the practical skills in the use of grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate ways of expressing ideas, related to the topics discussed in both oral and written form.

Indicative content

- Stable phrases, idioms, phraseology and their practical use in everyday communication
- Linguistic means of formal and informal communication, differences in functional styles and their practical use in communication
- Specifications for the description of the organization of Spanish grammar
- Constant expressions, consisting of several words that are used and mastered as one whole
- Use of subjunctive, conditional

Support literature

Required:
1. CASTRO VIÚDEZ, FRANCISCA.: Aprende gramática y vocabulario. Madrid SGEL, 2007
2. CERROLAYA GILI, ÓSCAR. Diccionario práctico de gramática. Madrid, Edelsa Grupo Didascalia, S.A. 2008
3. CORPAS JAIME, GARMENDIA AUGUSTIN, SÁNCHEZ NURIA, SORIANO CARMEN.: AULA INTERNACIONAL 4 B2.1, Barcelna, Difusión, 2014.
4. MARTÍN GARCÍA, JOSEFA.: Gramática y léxico del español. Madrid, Grupo Anaya, S. A. 2006
5. SPIŠIAKOVÁ, MARIA.: Cvičebnica z morfológie španielskeho jazyka. - 1. vyd. – Bratislava, Ekonóm, 2014, ISBN 978-80-225-3947-0
Optional:
1. CORONADO GONZÁLEZ MARÍA LUISA, GARCÍA GONZÁLES JAVIER, ZARZALEJOS ALONSO ALEJANDRO.: Materia prima. Curso de Gramática. Madrid SGEL, 2006
2. GÓMEZ TORREGO, LEONARDO: Gramática didáctica del español. Madrid, Gráficas Muriel, S.A., 2011
3. SARMIENTO GONZÁLES, RAMÓN., VILCHES VIVANCOS FERNANDO.: Lengua española y Comunicación. Madrid SGEL, 2007

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Full-time study: 156 hours. Of which:
78 hours – attendance at seminars
31 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
47 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: 22.05.2022