Overview
This course is designed to cater for the needs of students with previous experience of Italian language. It is delivered in Italian to help learners develop their skills and achieve fluency. It is based on the linked skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing and these are developed and assessed as learners progress through the course. The course develops students who are confident and engaged in an optimal learning environment and with a solid foundation for further language learning.l.
Syllabus
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate ability to initiate and maintain interaction
- understand clear speech on a range of cultural topics
- produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options
By the end of the course, students will be able to perform at Level B2 of the Common European Framework.
Functional Content:
- Discussing, verifying and confirming an argument in both informal and formal contexts
- Expressing criticism and dissent
- Expressing pros and cons of a situation
- Expressing wishes or intentions
- Reporting and evaluating statistics and data
- Talking about oneself and other people
- Describing emotions using different register
- Exchanging information and more complex advice relating to one’s job
Grammatical content:
- Time sequence of the verb in the subjunctive
- Pronominal verbs
- The position of pronouns in the infinitive and imperative
- The use of the gerund
- The historical past
- The indirect speech
- Verbs with double auxiliary
- Elements of syntax
Lexical content:
The topics covered in this module may vary from the suggested list below, as it anticipated that the content will be discussed, possibly amended, and agreed with the students during the first class.
- Vita digitale – informazione e identita digitale, la lingua dei social
- Natura e problemi ambientali – fenomeni naturali e città sostenibili
- Tracce del pasato – contaminazione ed eredità culturale nella società e nella cucina
- Oltre i confini – cittadini d’Europa, stereotipi, identità e immigrazione
Week 12: Written and speaking tests will take place this week. Completing the assessment is required for students taking the course as part of their degree. For all other students, taking the tests is also strongly recommended, as a measure of your progress and learning.
Textbook details:
Al dente 4, Barcellona: Casa delle Lingue, ISBN: 9788416943739, price: approx £25 (unit 5-8) We recommend our students to buy their textbooks from Blackwell’s on campus. They have a price match policy and you can pre-order over the phone with them and pick the book when you are on campus.
Study Hours
The total number of study hours for this module is 150 hours, in line with undergraduate university modules. This includes class meetings, assessment preparation and self-directed study in line with guidance from the course lecturer.
If you are studying on the extracurricular mode, we recognise that the total number of hours that you may be able to study every week may depend on your availability and previous experience studying languages, however, expected contribution to classes, homework completion, and learning outcomes will not vary.
Please note that the ‘last date available to book’ date is only a guide. We reserve the right to close bookings earlier if courses are over- or under-subscribed. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure enrol as soon as possible. Registrations will not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm.
Course Lecturer: Christina Diamantatou
Christina completed her PGCE, Cambridge CELTA and MA in Applied Linguistics while working as a language teacher. Her professional interests include the improvement of language teaching; the education and professional development of teachers; and the refinement of theory and method in language teaching. Christina's research examines curriculum improvement and pedagogy in modern languages, and the nature of educational reform. Peer-reviewed journal article Journal of Education and Learning “Foreign Language Learning, Motivation and the Market Economy” Published Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2016
Fees for language courses are £180/£90.
Please note that the ‘last date available to book’ date is only a guide. We reserve the right to close bookings earlier if courses are over- or under-subscribed. In order to avoid disappointment, please be sure enrol as soon as possible. Registrations will not be processed until the following day if received after 3pm.
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