- Docente: Adriana Iezzi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-OR/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
The student knows the basic strategies of language mediation and will be able to use them in basic communication situations.
Course contents
The aim of the course is to develop basic communication skills, improve language knowledge and able students to read and understand simple texts in Chinese and spoke about typical situations of daily life.
The course will focus on the following grammar aspects: modal verbs, sentences with an adjectival predicate, the use of prepositions, etc.
The students will learn how to write other 200 characters and how to recognize the 214 radicals.
Some aspects of the Chinese culture will be also explored, like for example traditional customs (calendar, festivities, culinary traditions, daily life, etc.).
The course consists of 40 hours of standard lessons and 40 hours of lectorship. All students must attend the whole course (40h+40h). The topics of the lectorship will be selected in accordance with the topics of the standard lessons. The final exam will concern the contents of both the standard lessons and the lectorship.
Readings/Bibliography
Federico Masini, Zhang Tongbing, Bai Hua, Anna Di Toro, Liang Dongmei, Il Cinese per Italiani Vol. 1, Milano, Hoepli, 2010.
M. Castorina, La cultura cinese, Milano, Hoepli, 2011, capp. 5 e 7 (pp. 89-108, 135-154).
T. Lioi, A. De Benedittis, Introduzione alla scrittura cinese, Milano, Hoepli, 2016.
Teaching methods
Using a communicative approach, the teacher will strongly encourage the active involvement of the students in individual and cooperative learning activities. The teacher will use a communicative approach.
Writing exercises will be assigned as homework for individual practice and they will be corrected by the teacher every week.
All students must attend at least 70% of the scheduled class hours for this course.
Assessment methods
The final exam is divided into two parts: the written exam (2 hours) and the oral exam (15-30 minutes).
The written exam consists of grammar exercises, reading comprehension exercises and translation of short sentences from Italian into Chinese.
In the oral exam the students will read one of the texts analyzed during the course, summarize its content and answer specific and general questions.The question and answer session will also include cultural topics (in Italian).
This module is part of the course "Lingua e Mediazione Cinese I (seconda lingua)". The final mark is the average grade of the four tests (two written test and two oral tests) of the whole course.
Teaching tools
On-line and multimedia resources (videos, audio tracks, Chinese-language teaching websites, smartphone apps, etc.)
PPT documents will be available on Moodle (the e-learning virtual class): http://moodle.sslmit.unibo.it/
Office hours
See the website of Adriana Iezzi