Spanish for Academic Purposes

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquiring theoretical knowledge of the characteristics and basic features of the Spanish academic language. The student is able to characterize and identify the basic features of academic language in a text at the level of the different linguistic planes (morphological, syntactic, lexical, stylistic, textual-linguistic) and knows the principles of the production of academic texts at the theoretical level.
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the ability to apply time management in the process of creating an academic text, acquisition of the competence to distinguish and evaluate the difficulty of the phases of creating an academic text (preparation for writing an academic text, the writing itself, the control phase).
- Acquiring the competence to formulate the aim of a scientific work.
- Acquiring an overview of the possible methods of scientific work and gaining competence in the appropriateness of their use in the treatment of a specific topic.
- Acquiring an overview of the structure of the basic types of academic texts in the source and target language and gaining competence to distinguish possible intercultural differences, etc.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to construct selected types of academic texts with emphasis on those encountered in the course of study (e.g., term paper, thesis),
- Acquisition of the ability to apply appropriate linguistic strategies related to the production of academic texts (use of appropriate lexical, stylistic, morphosyntactic devices) in the target language.
- Acquiring the ability to consciously distinguish appropriate from inappropriate linguistic devices (colloquial expressions, syntactically incomplete sentences, imprecise, ambivalent expressions, etc.).