Course teached as: B005355 - LINGUA RUSSA 1 (12 CFU) Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
Teaching Language
Russian
Course Content
The course is divided into two parts. The first (I semester, 40 hours) focuses on syntax and the use of morphosyntactic tools to express synonymy. The second part (second semester, 20 hours) focuses on lexicology and lexicography in Russian and the development of lexis used in the context of cultural patrimony.
During the course, materials will be made available at the Brunelleschi Copy Shop (Copisteria Brunelleschi – via del Castellaccio, 49/R); moreover, some texts will be provided during the lessons.
Bibliography of texts used:
Allikmets K., Strengel’-Kjamper, A., Odna gizn’ – dve kultury: ucebnoe posobie po tchteniju, Sankt-Peterburg, Zlatoust, 2011.
Ivanova I.S., Kuprijanova T.F. et al.,. Sintaksis: prakticeskoe posobie po russkomu jazyku kak inostrannomu, Sankt-Peterburg, Zlatoust, 2012.
Shibko N.L., Sinonimia sintaksiceskich sredstv. Prostoe i slog’noe predlogenie, Sankt-Peterburg, Zlatoust, 2015.
The course has as its aim the attainment of level B2 of the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), both in active (speaking and writing) and passive (listening and reading) skills.
Teaching Methods
In addition to the theoretical part of the course, ʻlettoratoʼ classes will help to consolidate and develop the acquired grammatical and lexical skills; it will provide language practice, with particular attention to morphosyntactic transformations, listening and comprehension, speaking, reading, text analysis, writing summaries, and translation (passive and active).
Type of Assessment
The exam consists in an interview aimed at testing the knowledge acquired by the students on the content of the course.
During the academic year a number of classroom and homework assignments will be given to check language progress (grammar tests, summaries of texts, translations).
Course program
Part 1: Syntax and syntactic tools to express synonymy
- Attributive functions: agreed and unagreed attributes; participial structures and relative subordinate clauses.
- Explanatory functions: direct/indirect objects, prepositional phrases and subjective, objective, declarative, modal clauses; direct and indirect speech.
- Phrases (time) and temporal subordinate clauses.
- Phrases (cause) and causal subordinate clauses.
- Consecutive subordinate clauses.
- Phrases (purpose) and final subordinate clauses.
- Phrases (comparison) and comparative subordinate clauses.
- Hypothetical sentences (conditional clauses).
- Phrases (concession) and concessive subordinate clauses.
- Gerundial phrases and temporal, causal, modal, conditional, concessive subordinate clauses.
- Active and passive syntactic structures.
Part 2: Lexicology and lexicography
The detailed program will be defined later.