Italian language and culture for international students

• CFU 5
• Prerequisiti

  Basic knowledge of the Italian Language (A1 level)

• Obiettivi formativi

  Obiettivi formativi/ Course objectives
  The Course is intended to train both Language and Culture skills. Although listed separately, Language and Culture will be treated as complementary subjects, the former leading to the latter and vice versa, through an overall intercultural approach.
  Language: level A2 (Waystage)

• Programma del corso

  Language Content:
  • Greeting people, introducing oneself; asking and giving personal details;
  • asking for the check/prices; making polite requests;
  • Italian cooking and eating habits; expressing likes and preferences; describing one’s daily routine;
  • talking about one’s work; the working world in Italy;
  • describing houses; talking about one’s family; identifying family relationships;
  • planning a holiday; travelling in Italy; tourist destinations.
  All language skills will be developed progressively complying with the specifications of The Common
  European Framework of Reference for the expected language level A2. Grammar will be treated in conjunction with vocabulary and language usage by an inductive method
  
  Culture content:
  • the controversial notion of ‘Culture’ and the role of stereotypes and prejudices;
  • the Concept of Bella Figura from the late Renaissance book of Baldassarre Castiglione “Il Cortegiano” up to the critical analysis of the book ‘La bella figura’ di Beppe Severgnini and the stereotypes about the ‘Italian’ way of life and behaviour;
  • a historic view on the raising of the ‘myth’ of Italian fashion and the idea of the ‘Made in Italy’;
  • the ‘question of the language’ between the need of a national language and the local dialects;
  • the language of the gestures and its role in daily communication
  
  

• Testi (A)dottati, (C)onsigliati
  • 1.  (A) Rosella Bozzone Costa, Chiara Ghezzi, Monica Piantoni Contatto 1. Corso di italiano per stranieri. Loescher editore 2005 » Pagine/Capitoli: pagg. 1-49; 64-70; 74-80; 112-120; 134-136
  • 2.  (A) Beppe Severgnini La Bella Figura. A Field Guide to the Italian Mind Broadway books 2006 » Pagine/Capitoli: pp. 1-87; 261-268
  • 3.  (A) Z. Baransky – R. J. West (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture Cambridge u. 2007 » Pagine/Capitoli: pp. 17-33; 283-291
  • 4.  (A) P. Balboni M. Cardona Storia e testi di Letteratura italiana per stranieri Guerra edizioni 2002 » Pagine/Capitoli: 24-37 (Dante Alighieri); 52-55 (Umanesimo e Rinascimento)
  • 5.  (C) S. Bertoni , S. Nocchi Le parole italiane Alma edizioni 2003
• Altre informazioni / materiali aggiuntivi

  "course reader" (culture part), consisting of selected pages from the above listed books and some resources prepared by the teacher; it will be available some days after the beginning of the course

• Metodi didattici
  • lezione frontale
  • esercitazioni
  • gruppi di lavoro
• Modalità di valutazione
  • scritto
• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che possono essere utilizzate per l'attività didattica

  inglese

• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che si intende utilizzare per la valutazione

  inglese

MATERIALI DIDATTICI