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Spanish: Variation and Oral Discourse

Code: 103566 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2502758 Humanities OB 2

Contact

Name:
Maria Assumpcio Rost Bagudanch
Email:
assumpcio.rost@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

In order to attend this subject, students must have a general linguistic knowledge and a command of oral and written expression comparable to those obtained after completing the baccalaureate. As indicated in the Evaluation section, errors in textual cohesion and in ortography will be penalised.

A level of English that allows students to read bibliography in this language is recommended.


Objectives and Contextualisation

This course is devoted to issues related to the Spanish language which pretend to improve the communication capacity and to expand the linguistic knowledge. It is intended to ensure that students (a) have knowledge and tools that allow them to delve into the factors that condition variation in the Spanish language, (b) that they become familiar with the fundamental aspects of discourse analysis, and (c) that they have acquired the methodology to analyze oral discourses and to develop their own oratory capacities in formal situations.

At the end of the course the students should have developed the following skills or knowledges:

  1. to have a global perspective of the current situation of Spanish, taking into account its different varieties;
  2. to know the main available resources about Spanish;
  3. to master the most important aspects of prescriptive rules of Spanish;
  4. to reason about the concepts of variation, norm and standard;
  5. to know the basic mechanisms that govern the construction of oral and written texts in Spanish;
  6. to express themselves orally and in writing in the academic field in an appropriate and effective manner;
  7. to analyze the discourse and linguistic productions from a pragmatic approach;
  8. to know the theoretical bases of the current oratory;
  9. to be able to do a formal oral presentation for an audience using various types of support material.

Students must become aware of the fundamental role that plays the adequate and reflective use of language in any discipline and workplace. Oral productions will have to be well structured, they must be understandable, they must be linguistically correct and they must be realized with clear articulation, the appropriate pronunciation and the pertinent intonation, according to the needs of formal oral discourse.


Competences

  • Identifying the characteristics of a space and a territory in order to manage the resources for its local and territorial development.
  • Interpreting social and cultural diversity.
  • Properly using the resources and methodologies of the study of contemporary culture.
  • Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing and interpreting oral texts of different nature.
  2. Applying and adapting in a coherent way the characteristics of the standard dialect in various communicational situations.
  3. Communicating in a properly, organised, and suitable manner in an oral conversation or presentation.
  4. Detecting and correcting any type (grammatical, spelling, stylistic, pragmatic, argumentative...) of inadequacy in a text.
  5. Expressing contents and arguments in a reasoned manner in (oral and written) formal discourses.
  6. Knowing the main data about the current situation of language (legal status, territorial extension, number of speakers...).
  7. Knowing the main institutions associated to language (academic, public administrations, foundations, consortium, etc.) and their functions and development.
  8. Mastering the main linguistic variation parameters.
  9. Mastering the varieties of oral discourse, and its level of adequacy and formality.
  10. Understanding the concept of linguistic planning and applying it.

Content

Tema 1. Oral presentations

1.1 Planning and structure

1.2 Verbal and non-verbal communication

1.3 Voice

1.4 Techniques for oral presentations. Support materials

Tema 2. Linguistic variation

2.1 Basic concepts: language, dialect, variants

2.2 Temporal, geographic, social and situational linguistic varieties

2.2.1 Formal situations and  the academic environment

2.2.2 Oral and written language

2.3 Linguistic attitudes

Tema 3. Linguistic assessment criteria and normative correctness

3.1 Grammaticality, acceptability, adequacy and correctness 

3.2 Normative correctness

3.2.1 Orthoepy

3.3 Documentation sources on the language

Tema 4. Discourse analysis

4.1 Parameters of analysis

4.1.1 The communicative intention. Speech acts

4.1.2 The notion of context

4.1.3 The criterion of adequacy

4.1.4 Subjectivity and modalization

4.2 The analysis of the conversation

4.2.1 Cooperation and conversational maxims

4.2.2 Politeness

4.2.3 Intercultural pragmatics


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical and practical sessions 30 1.2 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 3, 4
Type: Supervised      
preparing tasks, tutorials 30 1.2 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 3, 4
Type: Autonomous      
preparing tasks and exams, individual and/or group study 90 3.6 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 3, 4

The course is developed following an active methodology, based on student participation. The previous work of the students will serve as a starting point for the practices and activities (methodology of problem based learning and flipped classroom will be employed conjointly with other effective methodologies). The lessons are conceived as an environment where forums and workshops can be held, in which both individual practice and interaction within the group-class are possible. Critical thinking will be promoted, both when dealing with problems, data or situations of a linguistic nature and when reflecting on one's own learning. It is recommended to carry out a continuous and active follow-up of the subject.

It is necessary to use the Campus Virtual regularly, because through this tool any question related to the subject will be reported, and the materials will be provided.

Note: 15 minutes in a session will be reserved (within the period set out by the faculty) to complete the surveys on the instructor's task and on the course quality.

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Oral presentation 20% 0 0 2, 8, 9, 5, 3, 4
Partial exam 1 40% 0 0 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 3, 4
Partial exam 2 40 % 0 0 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 4

Assessment procedure

The evaluable activities in continuous assesment modality are (see the table):

  1. Partial exam 1 (40 %, recoverable): written exam on the contents of the first part of the course. Its date will be indicated in the first session and it will be also available at Campus Virtual.
  2. Partial exam 2 (40 %, recoverable): written exam on the contents of the second part of the course. Its date will be indicated in the first session and it will be also available at Campus Virtual.
  3. Oral presentation (20 %, not recoverable): oral presentation (10 minuts long) which will critically summarize a scientific paper related to the contents of the course. The dates for it will also be available at Campus Virtual from the beginning of the course.

The same assesment method as continuous assessment will be used in single assesment modality. All the tasks will be completed the day of partial exam 2.  

At the beginning of the course both the methodology of the subject and the evaluable tests will be explained. Specific guidance will be provided for each test when necessary. The guidelines with the description of the evaluable activities can be consulted in the virtual teaching space of the subject. The procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded will be announced in due course at Campus Virtual.

Reassesment procedure

To pass the subject it is necessary to have a global mark equal to or greater than 5 and to have obtained a mark greater than 4 in the partial exams. Students will obtain a 'Not assessed' course grade if they have only done one evaluable activity.  In the event of failing the course, the student will be able to presente to the reassesment process if he/she fits two conditions:

  1. having participated, at least, in activities that represent 2/3 of thefinal mark (continuous assesmentmodality) / having taken part in all the evaluable activities (single assesment modality), and
  2. having obtained a global grade greater than 3.5,

The same reassesment method wil be used in both continuous assessment and single assesment modalities: it will consist of a theoretical-practical exam which will be scheduled by the faculty in the reassesment period.

 

Evaluable elements

  • Knowledge and practical application of the syllabus contents
  • Knowledge and mastery ofthe oral use of formal oral language
  • Proper, effective and linguistically correct expression
  • Evaluation of the analysis of the grammatical aspects (phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and semantics) and pragmatics of the oral language
  • Evaluation of the analysis of phonic aspects of oral language
  • Practice of expository and argumentative procedures
  • Ability to create original oral texts
  • Use of the critical method
  • Ability to apply knowledge to practice
  • Disposition and ability to work in a group
  • Development of self-criticism and personal initiative
  • Ability to adapt to new situations
  • Mastery of the tools that support oralpresentations
  • Mastery of the usual procedures for recording and analyzing oral samples

 

Comments

In regards to writing, it's understood that the student will write texts with full content. Obviously, spelling errors, punctuation and speech structure will be taken into account (each speech or punctuation error will be penalized with -0.25 on the final mark of the activity). It is also expected that students know the general rules of submissionof anacademic work.

Plagiarism: In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

 


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Other online resources will be provided during the course.


Software

In order to prepare the support material for the oral interventions, the common programs of the office packages are suggested (as PowerPoint, Keynote, OpenOffice Impress, Publisher and Open Office Draw, among others) y teh computer application Prezi (https://prezi.com/es/) or Canva (https://www.canva.com/es_es/).


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed