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University of Piemonte Orientale
Course Syllabus Form for the 2016-17 Academic Year
Course: Italiano come lingua straniera/ Italian language as L2 (A1-2 base level)
Teacher: Monica Mosca
email address: [email protected] / [email protected]
Consulting hours: after the lessons
Teaching language:
X Italian
Learning results / Educational objectives:
In accodance with the European framework, the competences and communicational skills students are
expected to acquire, in spoken and written modality, are as follows:
- to talk about oneself including planning simple activities and express emotions and expectations
- to master interactive situations, inclunding turn-taking, information exchange about familiar
subjects, giving and receiving directions
- to formulate descriptions of objects, persons, animals, places etc.
- to tell stories, understand and express the temporal sequences, formulate indirect discourse
- to ask, express, and motivate opinions; to refer others’ reasons
- to refer about texts, studies, personal researches; to answer questions about studied subjects.
Prerequisites:
No particular prerequisite is set, as also zero level students are expected. However, in order to better
organize the teaching activity a placement test will be organized at the beginning of the course.
Course/seminar content (provide complete description):
Phonetics, phonology, orthography: Relation between orthography and pronunciation; phonological
distinctiions; double consonants; accents and graphic accents, Italian h, euphonic d, elision and
apostrophe, simple intonation. Respectfull upper-case.
Grammar: Nominal inflection (nouns and adjectives), irregular plurals, formation of feminines.
Formatiion of adjectives; degree of adjectives. Determinate and indeterminate articles. Verbal
inflection: present indicative, present progressive (stare + gerund), imperative, negative imperative,
imperfect and compound pasts (inlcuding the choice of the auxiliary avere or essere), future; conditional,
subjunctive; modal verbs. Personal pronouns, negative pronouns, pronominal adjectives (possessive,
deictic, numerals etc.); clitic pronouns; neutral pronoun; locative ci; ne; impersonal si; indefinite
pronouns; relative che, cui. Formation of the articulate prepositions. Formation of –mente adverbs.
Syntax: Use of articles. Agreement (article noun, adjective noun, subject verb). Position of the
adjectives. Improper prepositions; prepositional idioms; use of prepositions with nouns and with
(infinitive) verbs. Position of the subject, position of the adjectives, and the adverbs. The simple
sentence, declarative, interrogative, imperative, extended and ellyptic replies. Use of coordinative
conjunctions; correlate conjunctions; subordinate conjunctions. Subordinate sentences functions.
Presentative formula c’è. Sentences with modal verbs.
Semantics: meaning of the principal prepositions; value and function of some subordinate
conjunctions. Development of frequent lexicon knowledge. Special lexicon of the field of study (food,
wine, related techniques).
Discourse: the use of punctuation; anaphora; the use of textual connectives and discourse markers.
Elliptic replies.
Educational methods:
Lectures on grammatical subjects and communication skill; use of audio-visual materials for listening,
understanding, and summariztion; active in class practicing by guided conversations, public
presentations; writing tests.
Learning assessment methods:
“in itinere” tests for speaking, listening, and writing. Final examination.
Textbooks
 Lecture notes prepared by the instructor: hand-out wall projected
 Italian textbook: Iacovoni G., Persiani N., Fiorentino B., Gramm.it, Grammatica
italiana per stranieri con esercizi e testi autentici, Gruppo CSC