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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
German Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
FERRARESE PATRIZIA URSULA
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents The course is aimed at acquiring the German language in terms of comprehension and written and oral production. The course is structured in order to pursue a basic knowledge of German phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax.
Extended Syllabus Module I - Includes the scientific description of the language especially in its grammatical structures:
- verb: indicative present, preterite, perfect; future I; modal verbs; subjunctive I; verbs with separable and inseparable prefix; reflexive verbs; infinitive and participle
- articles and nouns: - definite and indefinite article; determiners; declension of nouns
- adjectives: attributive and predicative adjectives; comparison; numerals
- pronouns: reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, indefinite, negative, personal
- prepositions and adverbs
- propositions: the verb; the noun; coordinated, subordinate propositions.
During the lessons will be used a contrastive approach of teaching
Module II - German Linguistics
- Morphology
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Phonetics (Concrete study of physical properties (acoustic phonetics) and physiological (perceptive, articulatory phonetics) of the sounds of the German language: practical exercises with the aim of acquiring a natural and authentic pronunciation and prosody.
Recommended Bibliography - Difino, Elisabetta-Fornaciari, Paola, Tipps Neu, Milano, Principiato, 2006.
- Di Meola, Claudio, La Linguistica Tedesca, Un’introduzione con esercizi e bibliografia ragionata, Roma, Bulzoni, 2014.
Recommended Texts:
-Hirschfeld, Ursula-Reineke, Kerstin-Stock, Eberhard, Phonetik intensiv, Aussprachetraining, Arbeitsbuch, München, Langenscheid, 2007.
Teaching Methods Within the annual course the following teaching methods are provided:
- teacher-centred-teaching
- groupwork
- tutorial during the lessons
- Homework
- lektorship (CEL)
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
- written exams: the exams are held during the year or in the examination dates which are established after the teaching period. The duration of each written test is 120 minutes.
- the final exam is an oral exam (the results of the written part will be considered). The examination dates and times are published to the web.
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