Italian for Foreign Students Iii

A.Y. 2023/2024
9
Max ECTS
60
Overall hours
SSD
L-FIL-LET/12
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course aims to develop reading and writing abilities and metalinguistic reflection through the use of statements and articulated texts. Furthermore, the most significant phenomena of contemporary Italian are analysed. The exercises provide activities to improve listening and speaking abilities. The aim is consistent with the goal of the CdS to create a qualified professional figure of a culturally aware language expert.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course a student will be able to produce clear and articulate texts on various topics relating to his/her field of interest and study, by assessing information and articulated texts taken from different sources, summarising them and stating them with fluency and clarity.
Moreover, he/she will be aware of the existence of an Italian language on the move and he/she has experimented with the lexicografics tools.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
UNITS 1 and 2
The first two units aim to guide students in understanding and writing texts belonging to different text types. In particular, the morphosyntactic, lexical and textual characteristics of economic and scientific texts will be analysed. Textual and grammatical analysis will also aim at enhancing the appropriateness of discursive skills, with particular focus on argumentation and negotiation.

UNIT 3
The last part of the course will be devoted to an in-depth study of issues concerning contemporary Italian (linguistic sexism, dialectal resurgence, on line Italian, etc.) and its special languages. The methodology of the flipped classroom will be employed, through which oral production and interaction skills and textual mediation are to be strengthened.

Accompanying the course are 60 hours of exercises, which will take place both in semesters I and II. The exercises are aimed at deepening the contents exposed in class and at improving comprehension and production skills, both written and spoken; they are also designed to help in the study of the texts on the syllabus.

Students will be able to access the website Italian Language for Foreigners III, Ariel platform, for further in-depth studies and materials.
Prerequisites for admission
Per il III anno del curriculum STRANIMEDIA si richiede il livello di competenza B2 per la comprensione dei testi scritti e orali.
Teaching methods
The course is divided into three sections, aimed at strengthening various and coordinated skills and skills, combining metalinguistic reflection with the approach to textual typologies through different teaching techniques.
Teaching Resources
UNITA' 1 e 2
Bozzone Costa R., Piantoni M., Scaramelli E., Ghezzi C., "Nuovo Contatto B2", Torino, Loescher, 2013.

Bozzone Costa R., Piantoni M., Scaramelli E., Ghezzi C., "Nuovo Contatto C1", Torino, Loescher, 2013.

UNITA' 3

Materials provided on the Ariel course website.

Those who cannot attend classes will complete their preparation with:

Sergio Lubello, Claudio Nobili, "L'italiano e le sue varietà", Firenze, Cesati, 2018.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists of a compulsory written test, which will be fixed at the end of the course, and an oral test that can be accessed only after passing the written test (lasting 2 h and 15 minutes). It is possible and indeed recommended, as far as the written part is concerned, to do the partial tests concerning each module. Each module corresponds to a partial test lasting 45 minutes. Partial tests are valid for one academic year.
In particular, the written tests are articulated in activities of written production, written comprehension, lexicon, metalinguistic reflection through different teaching techniques: text manipulation, completion, rewriting of the text, cloze.
The oral exam, which will be unique, provides for the verification of knowledge acquired through the texts indicated by the section Reference materials.
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professor: Dota Michela
Professor(s)