Oral expression A for interpreters (Spanish)
Code: 101455 ECTS Credits: 3| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500249 Translation and Interpreting | OT | 4 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Antonio Rios Mestre
- Email:
- antonio.rios@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Prerequisites
This subject requires a native or near-native level of Spanish.
Students must be able to understand and produce fairly complex oral texts in Spanish on general topics and in a wide range of fields and registers.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of this subject is to continue the development of students’ oral competence in Spanish and to enable them to produce well structured, correctly expressed speech, so as to prepare them for mediation and interpreting.
On successfully completing this subject, students will be able to produce oral texts that are correct in terms of orthology, lexis and discourse.
Competences
- Producing oral texts in a foreign language in order to interpret.
- Understanding oral texts in a foreign language in order to interpret.
- Working effectively in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying lexical, morphosyntactic, textual, rhetorical and linguistic variation related knowledge: Applying phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, textual and linguistic variation related knowledge.
- Implementing strategies in order to produce verbal texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Implementing strategies in order to produce verbal texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes.
- Implementing strategies in order to understand verbal texts from different fields: Implementing strategies in order to understand verbal texts from different fields.
- Producing verbal texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes: Producing verbal texts from different fields and with specific communicative purposes.
- Producing verbal texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness: Producing verbal texts that are appropriate to their context and possess linguistic correctness.
- Solving interferences between the working languages: Solving interferences between the working languages.
- Working effectively in teams: Working effectively in teams.
Content
The thematic blocks of the subject are:
1. The specificity of oral discourse. Differences between oral and written speech. The prestige of the written language versus the priority of the oral language. Uses of written and oral discourse. Formal oral discourse.
2. The phonic aspects: articulation. Clarity in articulation, problems in pronunciation. Phases in the production of speech: respiration, phonation, articulation.
3. The phonic aspects: prosody. Segmental and intonative form. Prosodic features with phonological function in Spanish: intonation, accent, pauses. The speech rate, the value of intensity, the rhythmic contrasts.
4. Non-verbal communication. The movement and the gesture, the environment, the social space, the management of time.
5. The varieties of formal oral discourse. Case study and strategies for producing oral texts in various fields, with specific communicative purposes.
Methodology
This subject is worth 3 ECTS credits, corresponding to 75 hours of student activity.
To achieve the established objectives, the work students carry out mainly consists of: Lectures, presentations, debates and discussions, documentation searches, reading assignments, a series of evaluation activities.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Activity of analysis, comprehension and correction of oral texts | 3 | 0.12 | |
| Activity of production of oral texts | 10 | 0.4 | |
| Self-correcting activity of produced oral texts | 4 | 0.16 | |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Preparation of evaluation tests | 7 | 0.28 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of exercises. Readings | 45 | 1.8 |
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment is continuous. Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. Tasks and tests deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class. The information on assessment activities and their weighting is a guide. The subject's lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.
Review
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.
Missed/failed assessment activities
Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5.
The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.
Classification as "not assessable"
In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, thestudent involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral text production test 1. | 30 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 5, 4, 6, 7 |
| Oral text production test 2. | 30 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 5, 4, 6, 7 |
| Self-correction test of the oral texts produced 1. | 10 | 0.75 | 0.03 | 1, 3, 6 |
| Self-correction test of the oral texts produced 2. | 10 | 0.75 | 0.03 | 1, 3, 6 |
| Test of analysis, comprehension and correction of oral texts. There will be one and it will be worth 20% of the final grade. | 20 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 3, 6, 7 |
Bibliography
Alcoba, Santiago (coord.) (2000). La expresión oral, Barcelona: Ariel Practicum.
Álvarez, A.I (2005) Hablar en español, ed. Nobel, Oviedo.
Bados López, Arturo. Hablar en público: guía práctica para lograr habilidad y confianza. Pyrámide. Madrid, 1991.
Briz, A. (coord.) (2008) Saber hablar, Instituto Cervantes, Aguilar, Madrid.
Bustos Sánchez, I. (2003). La voz: la técnica y la expresión, Barcelona: Paidotribo.
Campo Vidal, Manuel (2008). ¿Por qué los españoles comunicamos tan mal?. Plaza y Janés. Barcelona, 2008.
Castellà Lidon, Josep M., M. Vilà i Santasusana, M. Casas Deseuras (2018) Secretos para hablar bien en público, Ed. Plataforma.
Davis, Flora. La comunicación no verbal. Alianza. Madrid, 1978.
Fernández de la Torriente, G. La comunicación oral. Playor. Madrid, 1990.
Laborda Gil, X. (2019). Claves de la comunicación oral. Prácticas para el orador afable. Barcelona: Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
Martín, E. B. (2013). La atenuación y la intensificación: herramientas para un mensaje adecuado. Tinkuy: Boletín de investigación y debate, (19), 47-55.
París, C. (2014). Reflexiones sobre el discurso oral. Hablar en público. Ribalta: Quaderns d´ aplicació didàctica i investigació, (21), 75-90.
Tusón Valls, A. (1995). Anàlisi de la conversa. Barcelona: Empúries (Biblioteca Universal Empúries, 73). Vers. cast. Análisis de la conversación. Barcelona: Ariel (Ariel Practicum), 1997.
Software
It will be specified throughout the course.