Italian Grammar and Linguistics

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023342ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st and 2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Enrolling for this course means that you simultaneously take 'Lingua italiana I ' or have successfully passed ‘Lingua italiana I ’. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions.

Taught in

Italian

Faculty

Academic Language Centre

Department

Academic Center for Language Education

Educational team

Dorinda Dekeyser
Voorzitter ACTO (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

52 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
76 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Introduction to the Italian grammar and linguistics. The topics are:

- articles, nouns and adjectives

- the conjugation of the verbs (present and past tenses, conditional, gerund, imperative, ...)

- pronominal structures

- prepositions

- pronouns

- passive structures

- impersonal structures

- hypothetical structures

- expression of hypotheses

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana, regole-esercizi-test, Susanna Nocchi, marzo 2022, Alma Edizioni, 9788861827363, 2022

Additional info

None.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students are able to analyse Italian sentences and to define the parts of the Italian syntax. They can apply without errors the correspondence between nouns and adjectives and are able to conjugate the verbs in the different tenses. They can express themselves in written and oral form by using simple sentences and can recognize the structure elements in complex sentences by their meaning. They know and understand linguistic metalanguage and the basic concepts of linguistics.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Schrift. with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

First exam session:

In the first exam session the final grade is based on continuous assessment, a written test in January and a written exam in June. The weight given to these three categories in the overall score is as follows:

· Continuous assessment: 5% (online exercises)

· Written exam: 95% (15% written test in January + 80% written exam in June)

In order to obtain a final grade, a student must have participated in the subcomponent ‘written exam in June’. A student who has not participated in the subcomponents ‘continuous assessment and/or written test in January will receive the final mark for the ‘written exam in June’ as the final mark for the course.

In order to pass the course, a student must pass (10/20 or more) both the grammar and the linguistics section in the exam in June. A student who fails (9/20 or less) one or both sections will receive as a final grade the grade of the part with the lowest result.

Second exam session:

In the second exam session 100% of the evaluation will be the written exam in August/September. As in the first exam session a student must pass (10/20 or more) both the grammar and linguistics section. A student who fails (9/20) one or both sections will also receive as a final grade the grade of the part with the lowest result.

In the second exam session students will keep their score for the section for which they achieved a pass grade (10/20 or higher). However, students can also retake this section (grammar or linguistics) if they inform both tutors via e-mail (jasper.vandenberghe@vub.be ánd an.vande.casteele@vub.be) and two weeks before the date of the exam in the second exam session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context