RUSSIAN LANGUAGE 1
Stampa
Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-LIN/21 (SLAVIC STUDIES)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
Lingue per l'impresa
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)
ECTS
9
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
PINELLI ERICA (titolare) - 9 ECTS
Prerequisites
The course has no specific requirements and aims to provide a basic knowledge of the Russian nominal and verbal morphology.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide basic knowledge of Russian through the development of all the linguistic skills. It also aims to present an outline of the morphological system. The course aims to enable students to orient themselves in everyday life situations and to understand and write short simple texts.
This course aims to improve Russian language competence reaching the A2 level of the CEFR.
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
The course consists of lectures (modulo docente) and practical language lessons (CEL).
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.
The oral exam will test students' knowledge and language skills.
In order to access the oral exam, the student must pass the written preparatory test which consists of two parts:
- a comprehensive test, regarding the CEL's activity;
- and the olistic test, regarding the activity of the lecturer.
Further information
Written preparatory test and oral test.
The oral exam will test students' knowledge and language skills.
In order to access the oral exam, the student must pass the written preparatory test which consists of two parts:
- a comprehensive test, regarding the CEL's activity;
- and the olistic test, regarding the activity of the lecturer.
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