RUSSIAN LANGUAGE I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0016

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Slavic Studies

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FERRO MARIA CHIARA

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

228

Prerequisites:

No prerequisite is needed

Objectives

The course aims to develop linguistic and communicative skills in the following fields:
A. Strategies and tactics of daily conversation:
- taking part in the communication introducing yourself (or introducing a third person), greeting, saying goodbye, apologizing, answering, asking to repeat, expressing an opinion;
- asking / giving information on events, people, objects;
- knowing how to realize the following communication intentions: desire / will, request, advice, proposal, invitation, promise, certainty / uncertainty;
- expressing own opinion on events, people, objects.
B. Production of short written and oral texts on familiar and habitual topics:
- Presentation of oneself / Presentation of a friend or relative;
- Study / Work;
- Your own day;
- Leisure;
- My city;
- Health;
- Weather.
C. Drafting of a personalized glossary related to the aforementioned areas.

Contents

The course includes literacy and introduction of basic morphosyntactic structures of Russian language, in order to enable the student to understand and produce simple texts in the foreign language, concerning daily topics, as well as elements of Russian cuisine, geography of Russia and history of the Russian language.

Extended Syllabus

The course consists of the following parts:
1. Cyrillic alphabet, phonetics and spelling;
2. Lexikon and glossary;
3. basic morphology and syntax;
4. Comprehension and production of the written text;
5. Comprehension and production of the oral text;
6. Word formation in the Russian language (slovoobrazovanie).

Cyrillic alphabet, phonetics and spelling
Introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet uppercase, lowercase, italics and block letters; analysis of the corresponding phonemes and main rules of pronunciation; spelling rules.

Lexikon and glossary
Introduction of the basic vocabulary organized by thematic areas.

Basic Morphology and syntax:
- Declension in the singular and plural of nouns, adjectives and personal, questioning, possessive and demonstrative pronouns;
- Use of cases with and without the main prepositions;
- Cardinal and ordinal numbers (their use to express: hours, months, days, years, centuries);
- The reflexive pronoun svoj;
- The relative pronoun kotoryj;
- Conjugation of the verb to the present, past, future;
- Verbs with suffixes -yva - / - iva-, -va-, -ova - / - eva-, -nu-;
- Verbal aspect, basic concepts: training and use in the present, past and future;
- Verbs of motion without prefix;
- Verbs of motion with the prefix po;
- Verbs of motion with prefixes pri-, u-, v-, vy-;
- Imperative.

Comprehension and production of written texts:
Reading, translation and reprocessing of basic level texts. Composition of autonomous texts concerning the thematic areas introduced.

Comprehension and production of oral texts:
Listening, comprehension and re-elaboration of basic and elementary audio texts.
Composition of autonomous texts concerning the thematic areas introduced.

Word formation in the Russian language (slovoobrazovanie):
Introduction of the rudiments of the methods of word formation in the Russian language.

Recommended Bibliography

Textbooks:
M.C. FERRO, C’e caso e caso, Roma: Aracne, 2011
ČERNYŠOV S.I., Poechali, Načalnyj kurs, S.- Peterburg: Zlatoust 2003 (o successive edizioni), con CD-Rom (CONTATTARE DOCENTE)
BONCIANI D., ROMAGNOLI R., SMYKUNOVA N., Mir tesen. Fondamenti di cultura russa, Hoepli 2016;

Recommended books (especially for students not attending lessons):
CEVESE C., DOBROVOLSKAJA JU., MAGNANINI E., Grammatica russa, Milano: Hoepli 2010
TANCON E., Grammatica russa, Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008
KUZ’MINA N.V., Russkaja grammatika v tablicach, Moskva, “Flinta” – “Nauka”, 2010
BARINCEVA M.N., ŽABOKLICKAJA I.I., KURLOVA I.V., PETANOVA A.JU., ČUBAROVA O.E., Škatuločka: Posobie po čteniju dlja inostrancev, načinajuščich izučat’ russkij jazyk (elementarnyj uroven’), Moskva: Russkij jazyk, 2008
KRIVONOSOV A.D., RED’KINA T.JU., Znaju i ljublju russkie glagoly, S.-Peterburg: Zlatoust, 2000
BOGOMOLOV А.N., PETANOVA A.JU., Prichodite!.. Priezžajte!.. Priletajte!.., Peterburg: Zlatoust, 2008

Dictionaries:
KOVALEV V., Dizionario russo.-italiano, italiano-russo, Bologna:
Zanichelli, 2007 (terza edizione o successiva);
DOBROVOL’SKAJA Ju., Grande dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo, Hoepli 2011.

Supplementary materials in electronic or paper format will be available during the academic year.

Teaching Methods

The course includes 300 hours, divided as follows: 72 hours of lectures with the teacher + 228 hours of self-learning and homeworks + practice with the CEL.
The teaching is fulfilled through an integrated method: communicative approach, group work, description of grammar after students' autonomous preparation on new contents, fixation and consolidation activities, version of sentences and expressions from and to Russian language.
During the academic year will be used multimedia(computer projections, movies, audio recording) and authentic materials.
The course consists of the following sections:
1. Cyrillic alphabet and spelling;
2. Phonetics and intonation;
3. Basic vocabulary and basic morphology;
4. Comprehension and production of written texts;
5. Comprehension and production of oral texts;
6. Introduction to word formation in the Russian language.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam consists of a written and an oral test.
Written exam: for the students attending lessons, the written exam is divided in 3 tests during the year, consisting of:
- Dictation
- grammar test
- short composition (on one of the topics discussed during the year).
The whole exam takes place without a dictionary; students can, however, use the glossary developed during the year for writing short composition.
Successful results in these tests allows access to the oral exam (see below). There are no forms of recovery of failed tests.
The oral exam consists of:
- reading, morphosyntactic analysis and sight translation of a short text in Russian;
- explanation in Italian of a topic of morphosyntax (also for students of Russian mother tongue);
- conversation on the topics related to the readings taken from BONCIANI D., ROMAGNOLI R., SMYKUNOVA N., Mir tesen. Fundamentals of Russian culture, Hoepli 2016, pp. 2-30; 39-50;
- conversation on the topics introduced by the CEL during the practice;
The oral examination can only be accessed after passing the written test.

For those students who have not passed the 3 tests during the year, for students not attending lessons and for the FC there will be a final written exam and an oral one of the same type.
The written exam is valid for three sessions. The student can choose to take the oral exam in the same session of the written exam or in one of the following two.
Assessment
The written and oral exam is evaluated in thirtieths, making the average of the marks obtained in the two parts. The following importance is attributed to the three parts of the written exam: dictation: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6. Orthographic errors are also considered), test: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6), short composition: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6). To pass the written exam, all three parts must be sufficient.

Contacts/More Information

The linguistic practice carried out by the CEL is an integral part of the course.
Attendance of lessons is strongly recommended.
Russian speaking students and working students are required to make contact with the teachers at the beginning of the course. Students OUT OF COURSE must refer to this program.
Teachers will be available for student сonsultation once a week during the entire teaching period.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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