Hindi Ii

The examination comprises a written test and an oral test. Passing the written test, equivalent to obtaining a mark of no less than 18/30, is binding for access to the oral test. There are no on-going examinations during the course of the year. However, participation in activities and initiatives promoted, within and outside the university, by the teacher and linked to Hindi learning, is duly taken into account and positively evaluated. The result of the written test will be communicated, within five days of the date on which the written exam was taken, by the course lecturer to each student by sending an e-mail message to their institutional e-mail address containing a summary evaluation of the test, indicating the main critical points and difficulties encountered and the grade expressed in thirtieths.
The written test consists of a first exercise in translation, from Italian into Hindi, aimed at testing knowledge of the grammatical topics covered by the examination programme. The second exercise consists of the translation from Hindi into Italian of an unfamiliar text, but with a similar subject to that of known readings, and the request to answer, in Hindi, a series of questions on the content of the passage. Alternatively, the second exercise may consist of the translation of a series of sentences from Hindi into Italian and be followed by a third exercise in which students are asked to complete a series of sentences in Hindi by inserting the missing grammatical element. They will opt for one or the other type of exercise according to the exercise programme carried out during the year, favouring the test most familiar to the students. Finally, the last exercise provides a list of lemmas for which synonyms are requested or, alternatively, a series of phrases, including idiomatic expressions, whose translation into Italian is requested. Again, the choice between the two types of exercises depends on the lexical expansion and consolidation work proposed during the lessons. Each exercise corresponds to a score and an indication of how it will be calculated. The written test does not include the use of vocabulary. Students have five hours to complete the written test.
The oral examination builds on the written examination: where mistakes have been made, the candidate is asked to correct them by explaining the underlying grammatical rule or argument. In addition to verifying theoretical knowledge of the grammatical topics covered in the course and the ability to apply this knowledge to the comprehension of written texts and oral linguistic expressions, during the examination the student must demonstrate that he/she has attained an ability to express him/herself orally in such a way as to be able to interact fluently in dialogues dealing with everyday topics. The oral test then continues with the requirement to answer a series of questions in the language, posed by the teacher of the course or by the mother-tongue teacher in charge of the practice hours, by which the ability to interact promptly and effectively, applying the linguistic structures introduced, will be assessed. The candidate will also be asked to read aloud and translate a few lines of an unknown text. Students may, if they wish, prepare a short oral presentation in which they speak for a few minutes on a topic of their choice.
Written examinations given in previous semesters will be made available to students at the beginning of the first semester.
The examination procedures for both written and oral examinations are the same for attending and non-attending students.
The final assessment, expressed in thirtieths, will integrate the results obtained in the two tests.