Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500239 Art History | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500239 Art History | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500240 Musicology | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500240 Musicology | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500241 Archaeology | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500241 Archaeology | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500246 Philosophy | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500246 Philosophy | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500248 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 4 | 1 |
2500501 History | OT | 4 | 1 |
2501801 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2501801 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2501902 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2501902 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2501907 English and Classics Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2501907 English and Classics Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2501910 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2501910 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2501913 English and French Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2501913 English and French Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2502758 Humanities | OT | 3 | 1 |
2502758 Humanities | OT | 4 | 1 |
2503702 Ancient Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning | OT | 4 | 1 |
2503998 Catalan Philology: Literary Studies and Linguistics | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504212 English Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504212 English Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504378 French Philology and Culture | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
Beginner instrumental course to Italian language. No prerequisites. This course is not conceived for native and/or students with advanced knowledge of Italian.
The course Foreign Language I (Italian) aims to provide the students with basic language skills.
By successfully completing this course, students will acquire an elementary competence in the Italian language (quite similar to a CEFR’s A1), both in its communicative aspects and in those related to morphological, phonetic, lexical, and grammatical aspects.
1. Introduction. Familiarization with the Italian language and culture. The phonetic system, the alphabet. Communication in the classroom
2. Presentations. Present / present. Formal / informal registration. To ask for / to provide general information. adjectives of origin, indicative regular and irregular verb’s present tense.
3. Descriptions. Lexicon and pragmatic structures related to descriptions of spaces. Daily communicative interactions in society (public institutions, commerce, catering, timetables). Numerals, c'è / ci sono, articles, prepositions.
4. Daily life. How to describe usual activities and their frequency. How to talk and discuss about them. Work: basic situations related to the world of work. Lexicon and pragmatic structures. Irregular present tense, articles, prepositions, adverbs.
5. Description of places, itineraries, indications. Giving and asking for spatial information. Dialogues, lexicon and pragmatic structures. The family. Describing and talking about the own family. Constructions with possessive. Panoramic on present tense, possessive and articles, adverbs.
6. About the past. Lexicon and pragmatic structures related to the description of past events. The perfect and imperfect pasts: use, auxiliaries, concordance, particularities.
7. Oral expression and comprehension. Basic phonetics of Italian.
The subject Modern Language I (Italian) is essentially practical. The training activities will emphasize the active participation of the students in the acquisition of the planned skills.
In general terms, learning activities are organised as follows:
Directed activities:
- Master class with ICT support and collective discussion
- Practice of written and oral expression in Italian language
- Analysis of grammatical phenomena
- Comprehensive reading of texts
Supervised activities:
-Individual and group exercises of different kinds, both written and oral.
- Class exchanges (teacher-student, student-student)
- Grammar, written / oral expression and written / oral comprehension tests
-Autonomous activities: exercises on the Student’s book and Moodle plattform, readings, writing, autonomous study and research.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Assesment: partial and final examinations | 10 | 0.4 | 16, 4, 3, 14, 13 |
Classes with active participation | 35 | 1.4 | |
Tutorials | 10 | 0.4 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Oral practice, simulated communicative situations, writing, debates | 25 | 1 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Grammar exercises, questionnaires, writing of texts related to the studied topics, study of the manual | 50 | 2 |
The assessment is continuous (100%) and it is based on the following sections:
-Continuous evaluation (100% of the final grade):
a) Test 1 (40%).
b) Test 2 (40%).
c) Active participation in class, understanding activities, written and oral expression (= 15%).
d) Participation to the oral and reading reinforcement seminar given by Prof. Buovolo (= 5%).
-All Italian language skills will be assessed: grammar, oral, and written comprehension, spoken and written expression.
- Students are allowed to retake activities they have not passed only if they have already taken at least 2/3 of the overall activities, and they have an average grade of at least 3.5.
- To receive the final grade, it is required to pass all the components subject to re-assessment.
- Students will receive a grade of “Not Evaluable” if s/he has not submitted more than 30% of the graded activities.
- In-class activities are excluded from re-evaluation.
- The Participation grade is based on the active role in doing textbook activities/assignments in class, the exercises proposed by the professor in the Campus Virtual and in the online workbook. It may consider as well the attendance to cultural activities eventually proposed by the professor.
- Re-assessment will consist of a written exam.
- Before posting the final grades, and prior to record them on the transcripts, the professor will provide date and time for the written re-take exam.
- Students are fully responsible for checking all their graded activities/exams.
- If a student commits any irregularity that lead to a significant variation of the grade in any activity, s/he will be given zero for this activity regardless of any disciplinary process that may follow up. In the event of several irregularities, the student will be given zero as final grade for the subject.
- In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be taken online through the UAB online tools (original grade 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 remote tools, and/orwill offer feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Active participation in class, written and oral comprehension and expression activities | 15 % | 10 | 0.4 | 16, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2, 10, 1, 14, 13, 12, 11, 9, 15, 7, 6 |
Participation in the rotating seminar of oral and reading reinforcement held by prof. Donatella Buovolo | 5 % | 4 | 0.16 | 16, 8, 4, 3, 2, 1, 14, 13, 12 |
Test 1 | 40% | 3 | 0.12 | 16, 8, 4, 3, 2, 1, 14, 13, 12 |
Test 2 | 40% | 3 | 0.12 | 16, 8, 4, 3, 2, 1, 14, 13, 12 |
Textbook:
T. Marin, P. Diadori, Via del Corso. A1, Roma, Edilingua, 2017
At the beginning of the course, the teacher will indicate and make available to the students the supplementary materials for the classes.
Throughout the course the teacher will indicate the compulsory reading texts.
As a complement you can consult grammars such as Nocchi's and Carrera Díaz's, written in Spanish and addressed to a Spanish public (with attention to the comparison of languages and contrasting phenomena, etc.). Three bilingual good dictionaries are Arqués (for Catalan) and Arqués-Padoan and Calvo-Giordano (for Spanish).
- R. Arqués, Diccionari català-italià italià-català. Barcelona, Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1992 i 2002.
- R. Arqués/ A. Padoan, Grande Dizionario di Spagnolo-Italiano / Italiano-spagnolo, 2 ed, aggionata, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.
- R. Arqués - A. Padoan, Ágil. Dizionario italiano-spagnolo. Bologna, Zanichelli, 2014
- C. Calvo Rigual; A. Giordano, Diccionario italiano italiano-español, español-italiano, Barcelona Herder 2001.
- M. Carrera Díaz,Manual de gramática italiana , Barcelona, Ariel, 1991.
- S. Nocchi, Nuova grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, Alma, 2012.
- N. Zingarelli, Vocabolario della lingua italiana. Minor, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2010.
No particular software is required, except for the most common Office tools (i. e. word processor, etc.,) email account, an updated browser, MS Teams for online sessions if needed.