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Italian Language

Module description

The module is designed for those who follow the Year 1 module MLI1052 the previous year or equivalent. It will provide you with the opportunity to enhance your language skills through listening and reading comprehension exercises as well as through the medium of translation in and out of Italian. The grammar classes will give you a sound understanding of the most important grammatical structures of Italian. Particular emphasis will be given in preparing you for your year abroad: looking for accommodation in Italy, the Italian university system, creating a CV as well as job interview techniques.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This module builds directly on the foundation laid by the beginners' course and is designed to achieve a good standard of spoken and written Italian.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. Apply a broad range of grammatical features of Italian to a variety of linguistic tasks
• 2. Translate passages from a variety of authentic written sources from English into Italian
• 3. Deal competently with intermediate comprehension passages
• 4. Write compositions in Italian
• 5. Give a short oral presentation in Italian on a defined topic to a small group of listeners and to engage in discussion and debate on the topic presented

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 6. Grasp grammatical and syntactical structures at an intermediate level; understanding of basic differences in style and register in written and spoken Italian
• 7. Understand and use in class discussion a range of linguistic terms, in order to identify and define strategies to improve linguistic accuracy
• 8. Use a bilingual dictionary to glean information about meaning, register, usage and grammatical forms

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 9. Communicate competently in a foreign language
• 10. Express and discuss views in front of a group of listeners

Syllabus plan

The syllabus plan will follow the textbook and be supplemented by additional  materials from other sources, for example:

• Unità 1- Ti ricordi (Grammatica: differenza tra passato prossimo e imperfetto; pronomi realtivi che e cui)
• Lezione 1: Introduzione al corso. Ripasso differenza passato prossimo/ imperfetto: es 1 p.10; ripasso regola (es 2 e 3 p.11); ascolto 5 p.12; sapere e conoscere all’imperfetto: es 6 p.12.
• Compiti per lezione 2: Ripassare regola pronomi relativi. Lettura 8 p.13
• Lezione 2: Correzione compiti. Ripasso regola pronomi relativi. Es 10 p.14. (workbook es 8, 9 10 p.7) Compiti per lezione 1 week 2: lettura 13 p.16
• Lezione Orale: Incontri: Lezione introduttiva e breve ripasso di passato prossimo e imperfetto.
• "Cosa hai fatto quest'estate?" 
• "Cosa facevi di solito d’estate quando eri bambino?"
• Farcela e andarsene spiegazione regola con listening 15 p.17 e es.16 e 17 p.18
• Visione videocorso p.22

Three classes a week, two concentrating on grammar, comprehension, translation and writing in Italian; one oral class to support and expand the work done in the other two classes.

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Re-assessment notes

Deferral – if you miss an assessment for certificated reasons judged acceptable by the Mitigation Committee, you will normally be either deferred in the assessment or an extension may be granted. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of deferral will not be capped and will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment.

Referral – if you have failed the module overall (i.e. a final overall module mark of less than 40%) you will be required to submit a further assessment as necessary. The mark given for a re-assessment taken as a result of referral will be capped at 40%.

You will only be required to retake any failed assessments. Marks for any passed assessments will be carried forward. If you have failed any assessments but managed to pass the module overall, you will not be allowed to retake the failed assessments.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

Nuovisimo Progetto Italiano 2- libro dello studente, Edilingua, ISBN 978-88-99358-75-4

Recommended Texts:

• Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide, by Anna Proudfoot and Francesco Cardo (Routledge, latest

edition)

• J Colaneri, V Luciani, 501 Italian Verbs (2nd edition) (Barron's)

Recommended dictionaries:

• Collins Sansoni Italian Dictionary, ed. V. Macchi (Collins); Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (Oxford UP);
• Dizionario della lingua italiana, ed. G.Cusatelli (Garzanti)

Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

• ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=11054 

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post-beginners, Italian language