2023-2024 / LANG9909-1

Italian 1

Duration

60h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in economics and business management3 crédits 
 Bachelor in business engineering3 crédits 

Lecturer

Alex Bardascino

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- General overview of the Italian language and culture

- Learning basic communication 

- Basic vocabulary and grammar

- Verbal tenses: regular and irregular present tense (indicative)

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Reaching A2- level by the end of the year. 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

No pre-requisite 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

In-person teaching:
- Interactive presentation of each situation, in order to improve the written and the oral comprehension.
- Oral exercices, situational learning and role plays, in order to improve the written and the oral expression. 
- Grammatical explanations.

Individual homework:
- Exercices, verbal tenses, grammar structures and lexicon.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course

Recommended or required readings

Book: D. Piotti, G. de Savorgnani, E. Carrara, Universitalia 2.0, Vol. 1, Alma Edizioni, Firenze, 2019.

Possibly buying a grammar: A.VALLE, Guide de grammaire italienne, de Boeck. 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam


Additional information:

Two exams are planned along the year:

January
- Written exam only (2h) based on grammar, reading comprehension, listening and writing. This exam will count for the 40% of the final score.

June
- Written and oral exam (3h) based on grammar, reading comprehension, listening, writing and speaking. This exam will count for the other 60% of the final score.

August (second session)
- Written and oral exam (3h) based on grammar, reading comprehension, listening, writing and speaking. The exam will be based on the whole program (1st + 2nd semester) and the marks from the two previous sessions will not be taken into account.

N.B.: Decimals will be rounded by default between 0 and 5, by excess between 6 and 9.
Example: average of 12.5 > 12 // average of 12.6 > 13

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

None 

Contacts

alex.bardascino@uliege.be 

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