German I and Mediation

This course is open to both students who have never studied German (beginners) and students who have acquired proficiency in this language at various levels. The course aims to provide students with the following skills: A. German proficiency at level A2 with regard to beginners, and consolidation of linguistic skills with regard to students with prior knowledge of the language, focusing on mediation activities; B. metalinguistic skills to analyse the functioning and structure of German at a phonological, morphological and syntactic level, also compared to Italian; C. basic intralinguistic and interlinguistic mediation skills.

By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- actively apply their knowledge of German grammar (declining adjectives and using verbs), vocabulary (using the appropriate words) and texts (using expressions typical of certain genres) to understand, analyse and produce texts at level A2;
- recognise the peculiarities of German phonology, morphology and syntax, also compared to other languages and cultures;
- use the most appropriate terminology in German (i.e."Komposition", "Derivation", "Deklarativsatz") and in Italian ("composizione", "derivazione", "frase dichiarativa") to describe linguistic phenomena;
- acquire interlinguistic mediation skills (simplifying a short German text and translating it into Italian, understanding complex ideas and explaining them in Italian);
- acquire intralinguistic mediation skills (simplifying the contexts of a short texts in German, explaining new concepts).