French to Italian - intercomprehension and notions of linguistics

Teacher(s)

Maeder Costantino;

Language

Italian

Prerequisites

Good command of French and a foreign language studied at secondary level 

Main themes

Students are introduced to the intercomprehension of Romance languages, which is based on their close kinship. From the very first lecture, they will read and understand texts at levels C1 and C2. They will learn to recognise the conversion rules that enable them to switch from French to Italian. 
After the introductory phase, students will read and study linguistic texts written in Italian. 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Identify the characteristics of the Italian language
2	Understand Italian texts passively at C2 level
3	Apply intercomprehension strategies
4	Analyse the morphology of lexemes
5	Make linguistic inferences from the context concerning locutions, conversion rules, syntactic structure, etc.
6	Read and understand linguistic texts.
This learning unit contributes to the development and command of the following skills and learning outcomes of the ELAL programmes:  2.6; 6.4; 6.5; 6.6

Evaluation methods

Ongoing examinations: three in the first semester, two during the second term.

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