Russian Ii
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to achieve the communication skills required for the B2 / C1 level of the CEFR. The course will provide students with a contrastive approach, the knowledge in different LSP. The comprehension and production skills of oral and written texts related to situations of specialized communication in the field of international cooperation will be developed. The development of students' autonomy of judgment will be pursued through the autonomous carrying out of tasks of contrast analysis of parallel texts and their discussion during class.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the course the student will have consolidated knowledges of the main lexical, morphosyntactic and pragmatic aspects of the legal and economic Russian language and enhanced understanding, interpretation and production of some text types corresponding to the B2C level of the CEFR.
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
The course will be divided into four parts as follows.
PART 1: OPTIMIZATION OF THE STUDY OF SECTORAL LEXICON
PROGRAM
This part of the course consists in the comparison between terms belonging to the same semantic field and in the study of verbal and nominal derivatives commonly used in the technical-commercial and scientific lexicon. The following topics will also be covered: compilation of glossaries and preparatory terminology cards; translation difficulties; difficulty of the Russian language; linguistic characteristics of sectoral texts; post editing tutorials.
PART 2: ORAL MEDIATION (Russian> Italian; Italian> Russian)
PROGRAM
This part of the course aims to practice the oral translation in the two verses in business and international cooperation contexts. The following topics will be covered: theoretical notions on interpretation with particular attention to dialogic interpretation, as well as techniques for memorizing an oral text and technique for taking notes. Due consideration will be given to the preparatory exercises (individual).
PART 3: ACTIVITIES OF EXPORTING COMPANIES
PROGRAM
The business context requires knowledge of the activities that allow the export of goods, technology and services and that can allow participation in international cooperation projects and tenders for the reconstruction of industrial and civil complexes. The texts used to carry out these activities will be analyzed (commercial correspondence, offers, specifications, contracts, founders' documents, handbooks, accounting and tax documents, transport documents, certificates, regulations, promotional materials).
PART 4: LEXICON OF THE ECONOMIC EMERGENCY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
PROGRAM
This part of the course aims to compare, by analyzing the lexicon, the economic strategies of the Russian Federation before and after the international economic and diplomatic crisis caused by the war against Ukraine. The materials used are interventions and interviews (written texts and videos) with prominent economists who describe the current situation and future opportunities.
Practical exercises will strengthen communication skills in the areas defined by the official course. The materials will be provided during the course and will be available on the course web page.
PART 1: OPTIMIZATION OF THE STUDY OF SECTORAL LEXICON
PROGRAM
This part of the course consists in the comparison between terms belonging to the same semantic field and in the study of verbal and nominal derivatives commonly used in the technical-commercial and scientific lexicon. The following topics will also be covered: compilation of glossaries and preparatory terminology cards; translation difficulties; difficulty of the Russian language; linguistic characteristics of sectoral texts; post editing tutorials.
PART 2: ORAL MEDIATION (Russian> Italian; Italian> Russian)
PROGRAM
This part of the course aims to practice the oral translation in the two verses in business and international cooperation contexts. The following topics will be covered: theoretical notions on interpretation with particular attention to dialogic interpretation, as well as techniques for memorizing an oral text and technique for taking notes. Due consideration will be given to the preparatory exercises (individual).
PART 3: ACTIVITIES OF EXPORTING COMPANIES
PROGRAM
The business context requires knowledge of the activities that allow the export of goods, technology and services and that can allow participation in international cooperation projects and tenders for the reconstruction of industrial and civil complexes. The texts used to carry out these activities will be analyzed (commercial correspondence, offers, specifications, contracts, founders' documents, handbooks, accounting and tax documents, transport documents, certificates, regulations, promotional materials).
PART 4: LEXICON OF THE ECONOMIC EMERGENCY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
PROGRAM
This part of the course aims to compare, by analyzing the lexicon, the economic strategies of the Russian Federation before and after the international economic and diplomatic crisis caused by the war against Ukraine. The materials used are interventions and interviews (written texts and videos) with prominent economists who describe the current situation and future opportunities.
Practical exercises will strengthen communication skills in the areas defined by the official course. The materials will be provided during the course and will be available on the course web page.
Prerequisites for admission
The required entry level corresponds to level B1 + / B2 of the CEFR.
Teaching methods
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
Part 1 Optimization of the study of the sectorial lexicon
The presentation of the lexicon is based on the criterion of formation of verbs, adjectives and nouns on the one hand and the comparison between terms with the same and similar meanings on the other. This together with the exercises allows you to expand the amount of vocabulary and optimize its memorization. The translation skill is exercised both with the use of post editing and paper and online dictionaries.
Part 2 Oral mediation
The required skills will be developed through targeted exercises based on listening and comprehension exercises, memorization, taking notes and rendering in the target language. The topics proposed for the exercises are: economic news, corporate documents, international cooperation. The morphosyntactic and lexical complexity of the proposed texts will be graduated to allow the progressive development of oral rendering skills.
Part 3 Activities of the exporting company
Translation skills will be achieved thanks to exercises in visual translation and written translation in both directions of various types of corporate documents.
Part 4 Lexicon of the economic emergency and international cooperation
The knowledge of the subject and the linguistic skills of comprehension and translation will be achieved through the viewing, comprehension, transcription, and oral translation of videos in which Russian economists, sociologists and politicians are interviewed who focus on the economic and social problems of the current situation.
Part 1 Optimization of the study of the sectorial lexicon
The presentation of the lexicon is based on the criterion of formation of verbs, adjectives and nouns on the one hand and the comparison between terms with the same and similar meanings on the other. This together with the exercises allows you to expand the amount of vocabulary and optimize its memorization. The translation skill is exercised both with the use of post editing and paper and online dictionaries.
Part 2 Oral mediation
The required skills will be developed through targeted exercises based on listening and comprehension exercises, memorization, taking notes and rendering in the target language. The topics proposed for the exercises are: economic news, corporate documents, international cooperation. The morphosyntactic and lexical complexity of the proposed texts will be graduated to allow the progressive development of oral rendering skills.
Part 3 Activities of the exporting company
Translation skills will be achieved thanks to exercises in visual translation and written translation in both directions of various types of corporate documents.
Part 4 Lexicon of the economic emergency and international cooperation
The knowledge of the subject and the linguistic skills of comprehension and translation will be achieved through the viewing, comprehension, transcription, and oral translation of videos in which Russian economists, sociologists and politicians are interviewed who focus on the economic and social problems of the current situation.
Teaching Resources
Part 1
TEACHING MATERIALS
Handout by the teacher; shared work on drive.
REFERENCE TEXTS
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Il russo tecnico scientifico Hoepli 2010
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Dizionario tecnico russo-italiano e italiano-russo Hoepli 2017
RIEDIGER, Helmut, Cos'è la terminologia e come si fa un glossario, http://www.fondazionemilano.eu/blogpress/weaver/2014/03/22/come-si-fa-u
Part 2
TEACHING MATERIALS
texts and audio / video materials from internet sites
REFERENCE TEXTS
C. Falbo, M. Russo, F. S. Straniero Interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva Hoepli 1999
Russo M., Mack G., Interpretazione di Trattativa, Milano, Hoepli, 2005.
Part 3
TEACHING MATERIALS
Handout by the teacher.
REFERENCE TEXTS
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Il russo per l'azienda Hoepli 2014
Part 4
TEACHING MATERIALS
texts and audio / video materials from internet sites
The course has a site on the Ariel online teaching platform (https://ariel.unimi.it/ ) to which reference should be made for notices and other materials provided by the teacher.
Warnings for non-attending students
Non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher.
TEACHING MATERIALS
Handout by the teacher; shared work on drive.
REFERENCE TEXTS
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Il russo tecnico scientifico Hoepli 2010
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Dizionario tecnico russo-italiano e italiano-russo Hoepli 2017
RIEDIGER, Helmut, Cos'è la terminologia e come si fa un glossario, http://www.fondazionemilano.eu/blogpress/weaver/2014/03/22/come-si-fa-u
Part 2
TEACHING MATERIALS
texts and audio / video materials from internet sites
REFERENCE TEXTS
C. Falbo, M. Russo, F. S. Straniero Interpretazione simultanea e consecutiva Hoepli 1999
Russo M., Mack G., Interpretazione di Trattativa, Milano, Hoepli, 2005.
Part 3
TEACHING MATERIALS
Handout by the teacher.
REFERENCE TEXTS
E. Cadorin, I. Kukuškina Il russo per l'azienda Hoepli 2014
Part 4
TEACHING MATERIALS
texts and audio / video materials from internet sites
The course has a site on the Ariel online teaching platform (https://ariel.unimi.it/ ) to which reference should be made for notices and other materials provided by the teacher.
Warnings for non-attending students
Non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam is divided into a written test and an oral test. The final mark will be given by the average of the two marks obtained (in the written and oral tests) expressed out of thirty.
PART 1 (Optimization of the study of the sectorial lexicon) WRITTEN EXAMINATION (without dictionary): filling test on the sectoral lexicon.
PART 3 and 4 (Activities of the exporting company, Lexicon of economic emergency and international cooperation) - WRITTEN EXAMINATION (use of the bilingual or monolingual dictionary allowed) open questions in Russian; translation from Russian into Italian of a text of about 300 words.
PART 2 (Oral mediation) - ORAL EXAMINATION
Oral translation from Russian of a text of about 300 words (topics of economics, politics, international cooperation). Oral translation from Italian into Russian of a text of about 150 words (topics of economics, politics, international cooperation).
Attending students (active participation of at least 75% of the lessons) can have access to partial tests (replacing only the filled-in vocabulary test and open questions) which take place in the middle of the first semester and at in the middle of the second semester. To access the second part, in addition to having attended at least 75% of lessons of the second semester, it is essential to have passed the first part. In case of failure of one of the two partial tests, students will have to take the entire general written exam during the official exam sessions (May, September, January).
The final mark of the written exam for students who have passed the two partial tests is given by the average of the two partial tests of the I and II semester.
The use of the dictionary is not allowed to carry out the fill-in-the-blank test on the lexicon. For the tests "open questions in Russian" and "translation from Russian into Italian" the bilingual and monolingual dictionaries can be used.
Warning
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 taking the exam.
International or incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher promptly. The examination methods for students with disabilities and / or with SLD must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
PART 1 (Optimization of the study of the sectorial lexicon) WRITTEN EXAMINATION (without dictionary): filling test on the sectoral lexicon.
PART 3 and 4 (Activities of the exporting company, Lexicon of economic emergency and international cooperation) - WRITTEN EXAMINATION (use of the bilingual or monolingual dictionary allowed) open questions in Russian; translation from Russian into Italian of a text of about 300 words.
PART 2 (Oral mediation) - ORAL EXAMINATION
Oral translation from Russian of a text of about 300 words (topics of economics, politics, international cooperation). Oral translation from Italian into Russian of a text of about 150 words (topics of economics, politics, international cooperation).
Attending students (active participation of at least 75% of the lessons) can have access to partial tests (replacing only the filled-in vocabulary test and open questions) which take place in the middle of the first semester and at in the middle of the second semester. To access the second part, in addition to having attended at least 75% of lessons of the second semester, it is essential to have passed the first part. In case of failure of one of the two partial tests, students will have to take the entire general written exam during the official exam sessions (May, September, January).
The final mark of the written exam for students who have passed the two partial tests is given by the average of the two partial tests of the I and II semester.
The use of the dictionary is not allowed to carry out the fill-in-the-blank test on the lexicon. For the tests "open questions in Russian" and "translation from Russian into Italian" the bilingual and monolingual dictionaries can be used.
Warning
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 taking the exam.
International or incoming Erasmus students are invited to contact the teacher promptly. The examination methods for students with disabilities and / or with SLD must be agreed with the teacher, in agreement with the competent Office.
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