OVERVIEW

This is a blended course: one part of it is taught in the classroom and the other part on an online platform.

Aimed at students in the third year of Lingue e culture moderne, curriculum per impresa e turismo

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Teaching, partially delivered online, leads to the syntactic, lexical and communicative competence in the professional register an is geared toward Maritime Economics.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student:
- Will have acquired skills of analysis of the varieties of Spanish in social and professional fields.
- Will be able to understand and process texts and discourses at a specialist level within the business and trade relations in Spanish

TEACHING METHODS

Plenary lessons accompanied by individual work by Aulaweb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course includes classroom meetings and independent training by students through a platform. The classroom meetings will provide theoretical knowledge of Language for Special Purposes and indications on the autonomous learning path.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Theoretical papers published on the Aulaweb page dedicated to the course.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LAURA SANFELICI (President)

ELENA ERRICO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester 2020/2021

Class schedule

SPANISH FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

A written exam is taken at the end of the course.

In order to do the exam, it is mandatory that all activities of the five modules of the platform-based part have been carried out and completed at least five days before the examination date.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The examination consists of a theoretical open-answer LSP question and a practical test that can include lexical exercises in context, pragmatic communication, textual analysis and drafting a business letter (response to a job offer, complaint, request for information, etc.). The assessment will take into account knowledge of the theoretical part of LSP and the skills acquired through the online course (but not the results of the tests that the student has carried out in each individual unit from time to time).

Exam schedule