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2020/2021

Modern Language I (Romanian)

Code: 104088 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500239 Art History OT 3 0
2500239 Art History OT 4 0
2500240 Musicology OT 3 0
2500240 Musicology OT 4 0
2500241 Archaeology OT 3 0
2500241 Archaeology OT 4 0
2500243 Classics OT 3 0
2500243 Classics OT 4 0
2500245 English Studies OT 3 0
2500245 English Studies OT 4 0
2500246 Philosophy OT 3 0
2500246 Philosophy OT 4 0
2500247 Catalan Language and Literature OT 4 0
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature OT 3 0
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature OT 4 0
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 3 0
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 4 0
2500501 History OT 4 0
2501002 Geography and Spatial Planning OT 3 0
2501002 Geography and Spatial Planning OT 4 0
2501801 Catalan and Spanish OT 3 0
2501801 Catalan and Spanish OT 4 0
2501902 English and Catalan OT 3 0
2501902 English and Catalan OT 4 0
2501907 English and Classics OT 3 0
2501907 English and Classics OT 4 0
2501910 English and Spanish OT 3 0
2501910 English and Spanish OT 4 0
2501913 English and French OT 3 0
2501913 English and French OT 4 0
2502758 Humanities OT 3 0
2502758 Humanities OT 4 0
2503702 Ancient Studies OT 4 0
2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning OT 4 0
2503998 Catalan Philology: Literary Studies and Linguistics OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Maria Ioana Alexandrescu
Email:
Ioana.Alexandrescu@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Prerequisites

None.

Objectives and Contextualisation

Modern Language I (Romanian) aims to familiarize students with the essential aspects of present-day Romanian, so that on completing this subject students acquire an elementary competence of the language both in its communicative aspects and in its relevant phonetic, lexical and grammatical aspects.

Competences

    Art History
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Musicology
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Archaeology
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Classics
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    English Studies
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Philosophy
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Catalan Language and Literature
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Spanish Language and Literature
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    History
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Geography and Spatial Planning
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Catalan and Spanish
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    English and Catalan
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    English and Classics
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    English and Spanish
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    English and French
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Humanities
  • Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Ancient Studies
  • Be able to express oneself orally and in writing in the specific language of history, archaeology and philology, both in one’s own languages and a third language.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Use the scientific and professional language of the social sciences.
    Catalan Philology: Literary Studies and Linguistics
  • Produce written work and oral presentations that are effective and framed in the appropriate register.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to maintain an appropriate conversation.
  2. Carry out oral presentations using an appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  3. Carrying out oral presentations using an appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  4. Carrying out oral presentations using appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  5. Communicate in the studied language in oral and written form, properly using vocabulary and grammar.
  6. Communicating in oral and written form in the studied language, properly using vocabulary and grammar.
  7. Communicating in the studied language in oral and written form, properly using vocabulary and grammar.
  8. Construct an oral and written discourse in the corresponding language that is well-organised and correct.
  9. Critically take part in classroom oral debates and use the discipline's specific vocabulary.
  10. Critically taking part in classroom oral debates and using the discipline's specific vocabulary.
  11. Develop an organized and correct oral and written speech, in the corresponding language.
  12. Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
  13. Express ideas in the language studied, orally and in writing, using vocabulary and grammar appropriately.
  14. Expressed in the target language, orally and in writing, using the vocabulary and grammar properly.
  15. Give oral presentations, using an appropriate style and vocabulary.
  16. Identify main ideas and express them with secondary and linguistic correctness
  17. Identify principal and secondary ideas and express them using correct language.
  18. Identify the main and secondary ideas and express them with linguistic correctness.
  19. Identifying main and supporting ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  20. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  21. Maintain a conversation attuned to the level of the interlocutor.
  22. Maintain an adequate level of conversation partner.
  23. Oral presentations using appropriate vocabulary and one academic style
  24. Participate in classroom debates from a critical perspective, using the vocabulary of the discipline.
  25. Participate in oral discussions in the classroom in a critical way and using the vocabulary of the discipline
  26. Preparing an oral and written discourse in the corresponding language in a proper and organized way.
  27. Present works in formats tailored to the needs and personal styles, both individual and small group.
  28. Submit assignments in formats tailored to requirements and personal styles, whether carried out individually or in a small group.
  29. Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
  30. Use the scientific and professional language of the social sciences.

Content

Grammar content:
1. The personal pronouns in nominative case. Usual verbs in the present indicative.
2. The indefinite article. The noun: endings that indicate gender.
3. The noun: formation of the plural.
4. Vocalic and consonant alternations.
5. The numerals.
6. The definite article.
7. The demonstratives.
8. The possessives.
9. The adjective. Degrees of comparison.
10. The present indicative: verbs of the first conjugation.
11. The present indicative: verbs of the second conjugation.
12. The past participle and the past tense.
13. The adverb.

Additional content will be provided, such as  phonetic and orthographic content, lexical content mainly organized in semantic fields (family, professions etc.), as well as communication (greeting, presentation, etc.) and socio-cultural (regions of Romania, traditions, etc.) content.

Methodology

Modern Language I is essentially instrumental and practical. In order for students to achieve the established objectives this subject mainly involves practical classes.
The teaching methodology will combine several types of actions and techniques, such as lectures, debates, cooperative learning, simulated situations etc. 

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Directed 52 2.08 26, 11, 7, 6, 5, 3, 20, 1, 12, 10, 25, 9, 29, 30
Type: Supervised      
Supervised 15 0.6 26, 11, 29
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomous 77 3.08 26, 11, 7, 6, 14, 5, 29, 27

Assessment

The evaluation will be continuous and will be organized in three modules:
1) Oral comprehension and expression assignments
2) Two reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary tests
3) Written expression test

The lecturer teaching this course will inform students of the assesment activities schedule. On carrying out each evaluation activity, the lecturer will inform students of the procedures and the date / time for reviewing assessment. 

Reassessment
Students can resit or make up evaluated work if they have submitted a minimum two thirds of the final grade and only if they have got an average exam mark of 3.5 or more according to the evaluation criteria.

"No-evaluable" mark: A mark of  (N/A Not Assessable) will be awarded if a student hands in less than two thirds of the assessement activities.   

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

 

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
First reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary test 25% 1.5 0.06 26, 11, 8, 7, 6, 14, 5, 13, 16, 20, 19, 18, 17, 29, 27, 28
Oral comprehension and expression assignments 25% 2 0.08 26, 11, 8, 7, 6, 14, 5, 13, 3, 23, 4, 2, 15, 16, 20, 19, 18, 17, 1, 22, 21, 12, 24, 10, 25, 9, 30
Second reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary test 25% 1.5 0.06 26, 11, 8, 7, 6, 14, 5, 13, 16, 20, 19, 18, 17, 29, 27, 28, 30
Written expression test 25% 1 0.04 26, 11, 8, 7, 6, 14, 5, 13, 16, 20, 19, 18, 17, 29, 27, 28, 30

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Platon, Elena et alii (2012), Manual de limba română ca limba străină(RLS): A1-A2. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință.
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