Russian 2
A.Y. 2020/2021
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide knowledge of the structure and functioning of the Russian verbal category. The analysis of the verb will be deepened also thanks to the study of the prefixes, highlighting both their semantic and grammatical influence on the verb itself. The course also aims to examine the main derivational processes that characterize the Russian lexical system.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: the category of the verb in relation to the perfect and imperfective aspect; the imperative mode, the verbs of motion (with and without prefix) and the passive, participial and gerundive constructions; the category of the indefinite pronouns; the adjectives of short form; the relative, objective and final sentences. Applying knowledge and understanding: use of acquired structures in practice; reading and understanding of intermediate level texts, production of short texts; recognition within texts of the structures of the Russian verbal category and explanation of their functioning; recognition within texts of vocabulary-derivatives, identification of their root and brief explanation of the derivational process that led to their formation. The developed linguistic skills will correspond to the level A2 of the official standard established by the Council of Europe for the knowledge of foreign languages.
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
year
During the emergency teaching phase, the course program will be maintained with the following changes:
Teaching methods:
Lessons will be held in synchronous mode (videoconference), according to the timetable of the course, using the Microsoft Teams platform. The recording of the lessons will then be made available to all students on Ariel platform.
Any possible updates regarding the progress of the lessons will be communicated through notices published on Ariel platform.
Students are invited to register for the course through the EasyLesson app.
Reference materials:
In addition to the bibliography already reported in the program, students should refer to the materials that will be used during the online lessons and that will be made available on Ariel platform.
Learning assessment procedures and assessment criteria:
The exam consists of a written and an oral part.
As indicated in the program, attending students will be allowed to do partial exams (to replace the general written one). For the rules relating to the access to partial exams and to their functioning please consider what is indicated in the program of the course.
The partial exams, the general written exam and the oral exam will take place in person or remotely (on Microsoft Teams) according to the indications that will be provided by the University on the way.
In the event that the written exam (even partial ones) will take place remotely, it could be converted into oral form. All information about this eventuality will be published on Ariel platform.
The evaluation criteria will remain those indicated in the program.
Teaching methods:
Lessons will be held in synchronous mode (videoconference), according to the timetable of the course, using the Microsoft Teams platform. The recording of the lessons will then be made available to all students on Ariel platform.
Any possible updates regarding the progress of the lessons will be communicated through notices published on Ariel platform.
Students are invited to register for the course through the EasyLesson app.
Reference materials:
In addition to the bibliography already reported in the program, students should refer to the materials that will be used during the online lessons and that will be made available on Ariel platform.
Learning assessment procedures and assessment criteria:
The exam consists of a written and an oral part.
As indicated in the program, attending students will be allowed to do partial exams (to replace the general written one). For the rules relating to the access to partial exams and to their functioning please consider what is indicated in the program of the course.
The partial exams, the general written exam and the oral exam will take place in person or remotely (on Microsoft Teams) according to the indications that will be provided by the University on the way.
In the event that the written exam (even partial ones) will take place remotely, it could be converted into oral form. All information about this eventuality will be published on Ariel platform.
The evaluation criteria will remain those indicated in the program.
Course syllabus
The course is entitled The verb and other morphosyntactic categories of the Russian language and consists of the following three teaching units, which will be addressed in sequence:
A: The verbal aspect, the influence of prefixes on the verb, the imperative.
B: The category of verbs of motion, the adjective of short form, participial forms and gerundives.
C: The passive sentences, the relative ones, the objective ones, the finals. The undefined pronouns. The verbs of position.
In unit A will be studied the semantic types of predicate , the aspectual pairs of Russian verbs, the perfective and imperfective aspect at various times and in their different articulations, the imperative, the nuances of use of the verbal aspect at infinity, the indicative and the imperative, the spatial and temporal relations.
In unit B will be dealt with the prefixes (po, pere, pro, do, na, pri, ot, za) and their influence on some elementary verbs, verbs of motion with and without prefixes, the adjective of short form, participial forms and gerundives.
Finally, Unit C will deal with the use and formation of the passive, the complex sentence (relative, objective and final subordinates), undefined pronouns and verbs of position.
The course will be in Italian, with some parts (texts analysis) in Russian.
The course programme is valid until the end of July 2022.
All the studens have to register in teaching using the EasyLesson app.
A: The verbal aspect, the influence of prefixes on the verb, the imperative.
B: The category of verbs of motion, the adjective of short form, participial forms and gerundives.
C: The passive sentences, the relative ones, the objective ones, the finals. The undefined pronouns. The verbs of position.
In unit A will be studied the semantic types of predicate , the aspectual pairs of Russian verbs, the perfective and imperfective aspect at various times and in their different articulations, the imperative, the nuances of use of the verbal aspect at infinity, the indicative and the imperative, the spatial and temporal relations.
In unit B will be dealt with the prefixes (po, pere, pro, do, na, pri, ot, za) and their influence on some elementary verbs, verbs of motion with and without prefixes, the adjective of short form, participial forms and gerundives.
Finally, Unit C will deal with the use and formation of the passive, the complex sentence (relative, objective and final subordinates), undefined pronouns and verbs of position.
The course will be in Italian, with some parts (texts analysis) in Russian.
The course programme is valid until the end of July 2022.
All the studens have to register in teaching using the EasyLesson app.
Prerequisites for admission
To take the exam of Russian Language 2, the student must have passed Russian Language 1 and Russian Literature 1.
Teaching methods
The course adopts the following teaching methods: frontal lectures; reading and analysis of texts.
The topics will be presented from a theorical point of view; example ad exercises will be proposed. The topics will be analyzed in texts (15 pages will be analyzed in class and 60 by the students as self-work).
The course will be held mainly in Italian, with some parts (text analysis) in Russian.
The course is integrated with practical classes for which students are invited to refer to the specific form.
The topics will be presented from a theorical point of view; example ad exercises will be proposed. The topics will be analyzed in texts (15 pages will be analyzed in class and 60 by the students as self-work).
The course will be held mainly in Italian, with some parts (text analysis) in Russian.
The course is integrated with practical classes for which students are invited to refer to the specific form.
Teaching Resources
The course has a website on the Ariel online teaching platform (https://ariel.unimi.it/), to which you can refer for lesson notes and other materials provided by the teacher. Below is the bibliography of reference for the various teaching units.
- Slides on the grammatical topics covered that will be published on the online platform;
- Texts used in the classroom and published on the Ariel platform;
- Texts for self-work that will be published on Ariel platform;
- F. Fici, S. Fedotova, La lingua russa del 2000, vol. 2, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2008-2009 (recommended, non obligatory);
- Nikitina N., Grammatica d'uso della lingua russa. A2, Hoepli, Milano, 2018.
With reference to the bibliography for practical classes, please see the specific form.
Warnings for non-attendants
The program for non-attendance students is the same as the program for attendance students. Non attendance students are invited to contact the teacher well in anvance before the exam, in order to clarify eventual doubts.
- Slides on the grammatical topics covered that will be published on the online platform;
- Texts used in the classroom and published on the Ariel platform;
- Texts for self-work that will be published on Ariel platform;
- F. Fici, S. Fedotova, La lingua russa del 2000, vol. 2, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2008-2009 (recommended, non obligatory);
- Nikitina N., Grammatica d'uso della lingua russa. A2, Hoepli, Milano, 2018.
With reference to the bibliography for practical classes, please see the specific form.
Warnings for non-attendants
The program for non-attendance students is the same as the program for attendance students. Non attendance students are invited to contact the teacher well in anvance before the exam, in order to clarify eventual doubts.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The teacher will evaluate the ability to write and speak correctly in Russian, to correctly apply the grammatical structures and lexical areas covered by the course / exercises in the written and oral language, both as regards the carrying out of exercises and as regards the autonomous production of a text.
The exam consists of a written test and of a oral test. The final grade will be the average of the grades obtained in written and in oral exams, expressed in thirtieths.
The exam grade can be recorded only when the students have passed both the written test and the oral part.
The written general exam can be taken starting from the end of the course, i.e. from May 2021. The oral exam can be taken starting from June 2021.
Students attending the lessons (active participation in at least 75% of exercises (practical classes) and at least 75% of lessons) can have access to partial tests (replacing only the general written test), which take place at the end of the first semester and at the end of the second semester. In this case, the final grade of the written exam is given by the average of the two partial tests of the first and second semester. To access to the second partial test, in addition to having attended at least 75% of lessons and exercises in the second semester, it is essential to have passed the first partial test. In case of failure of one of the two partial tests, students will have to take the entire general written exam during the official exams (May, September, January).
The first partial exam will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense (with respect to the topics covered during the first semester).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa, based on the application of grammar rules seen during the first semester.
The second partial exam will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense (with respect to the topics covered during the second semester).
· Comprehension of a written text with closed questions and an open question (which should give rise to a text of about 200 words).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa, based on the application of grammar rules seen in the second semester.
Written general exam (for those who will not take partial exams or who have not passed one of the two)
The written general test will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense.
· Comprehension of a written text with closed questions and an open question (which should give rise to a text of about 200 words).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa.
Oral exam
The aim of the oral test is to verify the student's theoretical and practical language skills regarding the topics covered during the course. The oral test will consist in:
· Conversation / dialogue in Russian on a topic assigned directly at the time of the exam (the topics assigned will require knowledge of the vocabulary covered during the practical classes);
· Reading test, translation (into Italian), comprehension and morphological analysis of 60 pages on which the student must have worked independently throughout the year. During the exam, the student will have to demonstrate that he can read the assigned pages correctly, translate them into Italian, expose their content (in Russian), and analyze the morphological forms covered by the course contained therein (in Russian).
· Knowing how to trace the roots of the words encountered in the texts used in class (15 pages) and be able to explain their derivation (in Italian).
· Grammar theory questions relating to the topics covered during the course (this part can be held in Italian with practical examples in Russian).
The final version of the program will be available on the course web page, on the Ariel online portal for teaching (http://ariel.unimi.it). All students are required to consult it before attending the exam.
International students or incoming Erasmus students are invited to make timely contact with the teacher. The examination modalities for students with disabilities and/or DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
The exam consists of a written test and of a oral test. The final grade will be the average of the grades obtained in written and in oral exams, expressed in thirtieths.
The exam grade can be recorded only when the students have passed both the written test and the oral part.
The written general exam can be taken starting from the end of the course, i.e. from May 2021. The oral exam can be taken starting from June 2021.
Students attending the lessons (active participation in at least 75% of exercises (practical classes) and at least 75% of lessons) can have access to partial tests (replacing only the general written test), which take place at the end of the first semester and at the end of the second semester. In this case, the final grade of the written exam is given by the average of the two partial tests of the first and second semester. To access to the second partial test, in addition to having attended at least 75% of lessons and exercises in the second semester, it is essential to have passed the first partial test. In case of failure of one of the two partial tests, students will have to take the entire general written exam during the official exams (May, September, January).
The first partial exam will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense (with respect to the topics covered during the first semester).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa, based on the application of grammar rules seen during the first semester.
The second partial exam will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense (with respect to the topics covered during the second semester).
· Comprehension of a written text with closed questions and an open question (which should give rise to a text of about 200 words).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa, based on the application of grammar rules seen in the second semester.
Written general exam (for those who will not take partial exams or who have not passed one of the two)
The written general test will include:
· Grammar test with multiple choice exercises, fill in the gaps and completion of sentences in the right form or tense.
· Comprehension of a written text with closed questions and an open question (which should give rise to a text of about 200 words).
· Translation of short sentences from Russian into Italian and vice versa.
Oral exam
The aim of the oral test is to verify the student's theoretical and practical language skills regarding the topics covered during the course. The oral test will consist in:
· Conversation / dialogue in Russian on a topic assigned directly at the time of the exam (the topics assigned will require knowledge of the vocabulary covered during the practical classes);
· Reading test, translation (into Italian), comprehension and morphological analysis of 60 pages on which the student must have worked independently throughout the year. During the exam, the student will have to demonstrate that he can read the assigned pages correctly, translate them into Italian, expose their content (in Russian), and analyze the morphological forms covered by the course contained therein (in Russian).
· Knowing how to trace the roots of the words encountered in the texts used in class (15 pages) and be able to explain their derivation (in Italian).
· Grammar theory questions relating to the topics covered during the course (this part can be held in Italian with practical examples in Russian).
The final version of the program will be available on the course web page, on the Ariel online portal for teaching (http://ariel.unimi.it). All students are required to consult it before attending the exam.
International students or incoming Erasmus students are invited to make timely contact with the teacher. The examination modalities for students with disabilities and/or DSA must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
Professor(s)
Reception:
By appointment. Students have to write to the teacher to agree the date and the time of appointment.
Online on Microsoft Teams platform (team code iknbobe), or in presence.