Italian for Foreign Students I and Mediation

This course aims to develop reading and writing skills as well as metalinguistic skills through the analysis of descriptive, narrative and instructional texts, so as to reach proficiency in Italian at B1+ level. It also gives a basic sociolinguistic panorama of contemporary Italian and its registers. Exercises aim to improve reception and production skills, both orally and in writing. The final goal is to train qualified and culturally aware language specialists, in line with the objective of the study programme.

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand and produce clear and properly structured descriptive, narrative and instructional texts. They will also be able to find the main information in a text and to paraphrase its contents, both orally and in writing, in line with the skills required for level B1+ of the CEFR. They will be aware of the varieties of the Italian language, especially diaphasic varieties.