Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
L-LIN/21 (SLAVIC STUDIES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO
Period
2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide basic knowledge of Russian through the development of all the linguistic skills. it aims to present an outline of the morphology too. The course aims to enable students to orient oneself in everyday life situations and to understand and write short simple texts.
Course contents
The basis of Russian morphology: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs and adverbs.
The course aims to present an outline of the following points:
Grammatical categories (gender, number, case);
Declensions of substantives, adjectives, pronouns (personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative);
Cardinal and ordinal numbers;
Meaning and use of cases.
Regular verbs and the verb "to be" and "to have";
Verbal tenses: present, past, compound future;
Reflexive verbs;
Most frequent irregular verbs;
Government of verbs with the most common prepositions;
Adverbs;
Predicative adverbs in the impersonal clause.
Communicative skills: comprehension and conversation on everyday life subjects; comprehension of short simple texts; writing of simple compositions; writing from dictation; explanation in Russian of basic words.
The course includes practical language lessons which are held during the whole academic year by Dr. Irina Averina (CEL).
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
F. Fici, S. Fedotova, La lingua russa del 2000, vol. 1-2, Le Lettere, Firenze, 2008-2009
S. Chavronina, Il russo. Esercizi, ed. "Russkij jazyk", Moskva
S. Cernysov, Poechali! Russkij jazyk dlja vzrozlych. Cast’ 1, Zlatoust, Sankt-Peterburg, 2009.
Leksiceskij minimum po russkomu jazyku kak inostrannomu. Elementarnyj uroven'. Obscee vladenie, Zlatoust, Sankt-Peterburg 2012
Notes and materials handed out during the lessons.
Reference handbooks:
A. Gancikov, Russo. Esercizi facili, Vallardi, Milano 2006
A. Gancikov, Il dettato in russo, ed. Led, Milano 1993
Dictionary: Vl. Kovalev, Dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo con CD, Zanichelli, Bologna 2014
Materials and books included in the bibliography are available at the Department of Humanistic Studies, Section of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
During the year, texts for autonomous work will be distributed. These texts will be part of the oral exam of Russian language.
Students who do not attend the lectures are invited to contact the lecturer.
Assessment methods
Written preparatory test and oral test
Further information
Written preparatory test and oral test
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