Expand+ITAL10100 Italian Language I NonBeginner

Academic Year 2021/2022

This module is directed at students who already had some knowledge of Italian before the start of the academic year, corresponding to Leaving Certificate standard or equivalent. S...

Hide-ITAL10100 Italian Language I NonBeginner

Academic Year 2021/2022

This module is directed at students who already had some knowledge of Italian before the start of the academic year, corresponding to Leaving Certificate standard or equivalent. Students taking this module can expect to consolidate their abilities and make up for any major gaps, relating communicative skills to grammatical awareness to reach a uniform level across all aspects of language competence. Tuition in small groups involves language production and reception, orally and in writing. Small group tuition implies that students are expected to take an active role in the language practice in class.
By the end of the module, individual abilities can still vary depending on the their initial level, but all students obtaining a grade of B or above will be deemed to have reached in all abilities at least a standard corresponding to the level A2 of the Common European Framework, reaching B1 level in some aspects of production or reception. This will allow them to make the most use of all higher-level Italian language modules in which all students are non-beginners without distinction.

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should demonstrate an ability to:

1 communicate on familiar matters relating to work and free time, and sustain a short conversation in Italian, centred on themselves and incorporating accounts of past or future actions;

2 understand simple texts, deducing the meaning of unknown terms, and write descriptions or accounts of matters of personal significance involving a variety of grammatical structures (including pronouns and different tenses);

3 be in full control of all the structures covered in ITAL10020, as well as tenses (including the future, the compound perfect (passato prossimo), and the imperfect), clitic pronouns (direct and indirect objects) and the particles ne and ci;

4 construct coherent short texts of interlinked sentences using the present tense and an appropriate choice of imperfect or passato prossimo, and future or isolated conditional forms when appropriate.