Foreign Language (Italian)

Bachelor 2024/2025

Type: Elective course

Area of studies: Public Policy and Social Sciences

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Where: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 4 year, 1-3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 7

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The course has been designed for the students of the “HSE and University of London Double Degree Programme in Economics”. The main goal of this course is to start preparing students to use Italian in their further academic studies or/and in their future carrier, which means to develop their communicative skills in Italian at the A1-B2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in multiple contexts such as reading and listening comprehension, written and oral expression, communicative interaction. At the same time, the course is aimed at promoting autonomous learning, self-assessment, peer-correction and critical thinking.

Learning Objectives

Cultural Competences development
Formation and development of intercultural foreign-language professionally-oriented communicative competence

Expected Learning Outcomes

- understand the emotionally rich information in direct communication with a native speaker; - Understand public speaking, including through technical means; - extract implicit information from an oral message of a monological or dialogical nature;
- use etiquette of written language correctly; - increase the level of educational autonomy; - independently set the goals of educational activities aimed at continuous self-education, look for effective strategies for achieving goals;
- conduct a conversation in a foreign language, participate in discussions, speak publicly in the framework of professional and socio-cultural areas of communication; correctly use speech etiquette during oral communication with a representative of another linguistic culture;
- perform interpretation within the professional sphere of communication; - carry out written translation of printed texts from a foreign language into Russian and from Russian into a foreign language within the framework of the professional sphere of communication; - perform translation of documents and correspondence from a foreign language into Russian and from Russian into a foreign language within the framework of the professional sphere of communication;
- read and understand texts of various genres with different levels of penetration into the content; - write formal and informal letters; - make plans, resumes; - make abstracts, annotations; - reasonably express an opinion on the proposed issue; - conduct a creative analysis of the original written text and summarize the facts in writing;
- understand lectures in a foreign language; - understand factual information on radio and television; - extract factual information from the media and the Internet; - carry out analytical and synthetic processing of information obtained from oral, written and electronic sources.
- use the speech means of persuasion in public speaking on professional topics in direct contact with the audience; - understand and process the main content of oral monological texts perceived from various sources of information (including from the media); - understand the emotionally rich information in direct communication with a native speaker;
- use the speech means of persuasion in public speaking on professional topics in direct contact with the audience; - understand and process the main content of oral monological texts perceived from various sources of information (including from the media); - understand the emotionally rich information in direct communication with a native speaker;

Course Contents

Italy and Italian language
My house. Housing types in Italy.
I and my family. Communication in the family: parents-children relations
My working day (planning) and leisure time
telephone call and letter. My friends and I
Transport in Italy
Holidays and tourism
Individuality and character/ Who am I int he future
International communication
Italian cuisine
Cinema and theatre
at the shop
healthy lifestyle

Assessment Elements

Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3
Interviews on all main topics of the course
Final assessment work
Exam 4
Interviews on all main topics of the course
Exam 5
Interviews on all main topics of the course
Exam 6
Interviews on all main topics of the course
Exam 7
Interviews on all main topics of the course
Written speech control
Current control of written speech is carried out in the following forms: production of a written text in accordance with the communicative task, performance of tasks for general / detailed understanding of the written text, lexical and grammatical tests on the material studied
Assessment work
Lexical-grammatical tasks within the topics studied in the module
Oral speech control
Current control of oral speech is carried out in the following forms: monologic and dialogic statements on the subject of the course, performance of tasks for general/detailed understanding of the sounding text.
Exam 8
Interviews on all main topics of the course

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 2nd module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 1 + 0.3 * Exam 1 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2021/2022 4th module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 2 + 0.3 * Exam 2 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2022/2023 2nd module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 3 + 0.3 * Exam 3 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2022/2023 4th module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 4 + 0.3 * Exam 4 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2023/2024 2nd module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 5 + 0.3 * Exam 5 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2023/2024 4th module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 6 + 0.3 * Exam 6 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2024/2025 2nd module
0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.1 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 7 + 0.3 * Exam 7 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Oral speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control + 0.1 * Written speech control
2024/2025 3rd module
0.2 * Assessment work + 0.2 * Assessment work + 0.3 * Exam 8 + 0.3 * Exam 8 + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.1 * Final assessment work + 0.2 * Oral speech control + 0.2 * Oral speech control + 0.2 * Written speech control + 0.2 * Written speech control

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Итальянский язык : второй этап обучения, Лидина, Л., 2004
Основы итальянского языка, Грейзбард, Л. И., 2006

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Банкери, С. Итальянский язык. Основной курс : пособие для изучающих итальянский язык: уровень от начального к среднему / С. Банкери, М. Леттьери. [пер. с англ. А. А. Вовина]. — Санкт-Петербург : КАРО, 2018. - 416 с. - ISBN 978-5-9925-1273-1. - Режим доступа: https://new.znanium.com/catalog/product/1047900
Говорим по - итальянски : учеб. пособие, Буэно, Т., 2007
Келейникова А.Г. - Parliamo Italiano. Ч. I - Пятигорский государственный лингвистический университет - 2016 - ISBN: 978-5-406-05482-6 - Текст электронный // ЭБС BOOKRU - URL: https://book.ru/book/919874

Authors

OKHOTNIKOV DANIIL IGOREVICH

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