0000141 - Italian Language and Linguistics (NZ)

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

In line with the educational goals of the Degree Course for which the teaching is offered, the course aim to provide a solid ability to reflect on Italian and to know how to use it to mediate, compare, translate. At the end of the course and after passing the exam, the student will have to be able to deal with the metalinguistic reflection on contemporary Italian; distinguish the different linguistic varieties of Italian; analyze oral and written texts;

use paper or online Italian dictionaries.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The educational path provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary for reflection on the structures and varieties of Italian and for the analysis of written and oral texts. During the assessment, the student must therefore be able to describe the main phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic-textual features of contemporary Italian; recognize the specific features of the different linguistic varieties in the texts;

show full familiarity with lexicographic tools; analyze different types of texts on a linguistic level; judge the acceptability of a text according to the communicative situation.

FURTHER EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Making judgments: the student is expected to be able to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of oral and written texts and to modify them according to different needs.

Communication skills: at the end of the course and after passing the exam, the student must be able to clearly describe the structures of Italian and be able both to use the specialized vocabulary and to simplify it effectively on the basis of the communicative situation and the registers adopted.

• Learning ability: the metalinguistic reflection on contemporary Italian will have to facilitate that on other languages, fostering their learning.