History of the Spanish Language

Course: Translation from Spanish and English

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
History of the Spanish Language
Code
ННД.21
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyse and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 8. Know and understand the system of language, the general properties of literature as the art of word, the history of the Spanish and English languages and literatures, to be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities. PLO 12. Analyse language units, determine their interaction, and characterize linguistic phenomena and the underlying processes.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
In order to successfully complete the course "History of the First Foreign Language", students must have successfully completed the following courses: "Practical Course of the First Foreign Language", "History of Foreign Literature", "Introduction to the Specialty". The combination of these academic courses allows you to know all aspects of the Spanish language (phonetics, spelling, morphology, vocabulary, syntax), the necessary terms and concepts of linguistics, the principles of language material analysis, the peculiarities of semantics, structure and functioning of units of all levels of the Spanish language and be able to apply this linguistic toolkit in practice, to subordinate these skills to the ability to translate texts of different periods of the Spanish language formation (XII - XVIII centuries); have basic skills of translation, analysis and interpretation of linguistic facts.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to highlight the genesis of the Romance languages and their classification, to consider the history of the formation of the Spanish language in the system of Romance languages (external and internal history), to outline the main stages of the evolution of the Spanish language, to make a diachronic section of the Spanish language, starting from the first written monuments and ending with the period of stabilization of language forms. The course examines the development of the Spanish language on the historical axis. Mastering this discipline allows you to understand the relationship between the internal structure of the language and the external conditions of its existence, the relationship of language development with the history of literature of this people and its culture as a whole. The evolution of the Spanish language is considered at the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic levels.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Данилич В.С. Становлення національної мови Іспанії (за пам'ятками писемності ХІІ - першої чверті ХVII ст.). Автореф. дис. … док. філол. наук. К., 2007. Магушинець І.І. Вступ до романської філології. \ Навчальний посібник для студентів ВНЗ. К., 2009. Bubnovskaia E.F. Antología de la historia de la lengua española / Siglos XII - XVII. K., 1979. Litvinenko E.V. Historia de la lengua española. K., 1983. Menéndez Pidal, R. Manual de gramática histórica española. La Habana, 1969 A complete list of recommended references is available in the Program of the discipline.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Final assessment: exam. The distribution of points is as follows: 60 points - during the semester and 40 points (20%) - exam. Assessment criteria: oral answers, additions, participation in seminar discussions, blitz surveys: PH 2.1-2.3, 3.1, 4 - max. 20 points; translations of original texts of Spanish writers created in different historical periods (XII - XVIII centuries): max. 10 points; writing a modular semester paper: max. 20 points; writing an essay on the course topic and its defense/presentation: max. 10 points; . the exam consists of three tasks: two theoretical questions and a translation of an excerpt from the original text of the XII - XVIII centuries; all types of work are evaluated in points, in accordance with the paragraph 7.1 of the Program of the discipline.
Language of instruction
Spanish, Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Vasylivna Orlychenko
M. Zerov Department of Theory and Practice of Translation from Romance Languages
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology