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Spanish Language and Translation
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
EXPECTED RESULTS
The Spanish Language III course aims primarily to recapitulate the grammatical and analytical knowledge from previous academic years, while also consolidating the learning and production capabilities of the four macro linguistic and communicative skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) corresponding to the advanced B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The course's objective is to provide the theoretical-practical tools necessary to translate texts of various genres from Spanish to Italian.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
This course aims to provide the knowledge and methodological tools necessary to recognize, analyze and translate different types of texts, such as literary fragments, newspaper articles, screenplays, reports, as well as to enrich everyday Spanish vocabulary.
ADDITIONAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Judgment autonomy: At the end of the course, the student will demonstrate the ability to make the right choices autonomously both in activities of written and oral production and in activities of translation of texts of various nature from Spanish to Italian.
Communicative skills: The student will demonstrate the ability to communicate in Spanish clearly and appropriately, using correct morphology and syntax. The student will also demonstrate the ability to identify, communicate, and rework the contents of a complex text in Spanish of various genres.
Learning ability: The student will demonstrate autonomy in learning and applying the linguistic structures covered in the course and must be able to use analysis tools in the current use of the Spanish language.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge and understanding of the phonetic, syntactic, morphological, and lexical phenomena of the Spanish language
Teaching Methods
The first part of the course will be focused on reviewing the main syntactic and grammatical rules, thus allowing for the consolidation of learning undertaken in previous academic years. The second part will instead consist of the analysis and translation into Italian of various texts written in Spanish, with particular attention to certain aspects of translation (loans, borrowings, false friends, negotiations, losses and gains, translation methods, etc.), language, and vocabulary.
Assessment Methods
The examination consists of a written test and an oral test. Access to the oral examination is only possible after having taken and successfully passed the written test. The written test follows the structural and thematic line of Lingua Spagnola I and II. It is divided into three large sections (usos verbales, sistema lingüístico y léxico en contexto), with 20 points each, for a total of 60 points, and lasts 30 minutes. In the course of the test, students must enter some answers and not only choose from a multiple selection.
The oral examination is conducted entirely in Spanish and focuses on the texts included in the Reference Texts section (the textbooks, readings and the printed issue of the daily newspaper El País) and on reading, analysis and translation.
The final grade is given by the average of the written and oral grades and is expressed in thirtieths (minimum grade: 18/thirtieths - maximum grade: 30/thirtieths and Honours).
Texts
TEXTBOOKS
M. Lozano Zahonero, Nueva gramática de uso de la lengua española A1-A2. Teoría y práctica. HOEPLI, 2023 (facoltativo per la grammatica)
M. Lozano Zahonero, Nueva gramática de uso de la lengua española B1-B2. Teoría y práctica. HOEPLI, 2023 (facoltativo per la grammatica)
R. Odicino, Gramática española, UTET, 2023 (facoltativo per la grammatica)
M. Ottaiano, Un modo di sentire la realtà, Carocci editore, 2023 (obbligatorio)
P. Newmark, Manual de traducción 9e, Cátedra, 2021 (for attending studentes chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 15, the whole textbook for the non-attending students)
TWO BOOKS FROM THE LIST BELOW
Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, Debolsillo, 2010
Aixa de la Cruz, Modelos animales, Editorial Salto de Página, 2015
Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Debolsillo, 2014
Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos, Vintage Espanol, 2024
Paola Guevara, Mi padre y otros accidentes, Planeta, 2016
Paola Guevara, Horóscopo, Planeta, 2018
Eva Luna, El funeral de Lolita, Lumen, 2015
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela, Alfaguara, 2013
Luis Sepúlveda, Un viejo que leía novelas de amor, Tusquets 1989
Carmen Laforet, Nada, Austral, 2019
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones, Debolsillo, 2011
Pedro Almodóvar, Todo sobre mi madre (sceneggiatura)
Pablo Neruda, Cien sonetos de amor, Austral, 2021
Samanta Schweblin, Siete casas vacías, Batiscafo Sl, 2023
Francisco Umbral, Mortal y Rosa, Planeta, Madrid, 2008
Luna Miguel, Leer mata, Rey Naranjo Editores, 2023
Diana Aller, Todas las guerras empiezan en verano, Alta marea, 2025
[For the NON-attending students THREE books + a screenplay or a poem chosen by the student]
A printed issue of the daily newspaper El País not older than six months from the date of the exam
Contents
GRAMMAR
Review of some fundamental topics:
1.Verbs used in the personal form; irregular verbs
2. Verbs used in the impersonal form
3. Imperative and negative imperative
4. Verbal periphrases
5. Simple sentence and complex sentence
6. Categories of subordinate clauses
7. Verbos de cambio
8. Use of ser/estar
9. Use of por/para
10. Use of llevar/traer; ir/venir; pedir/preguntar; haber/tener
11. Discourse markers
12. Prepositional verbs
TRANSLATION
We will analyze, and then translate characteristics and functions of some
text types:
1) Literary text
2) Investigative reportage
3) Screenplay
4) Poetic language
5) Singer-songwriter song
6) Journalistic text
Course Language
Spanish