Linguistics

FRANCESCA ROMANA BERNO
FRANCESCA ROMANA BERNO

aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of the Didactics of Latin, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way. In particular, students are required to acquire: a deep knowledge of Latin language; a deep knowledge of Latin literature from III b.C. to VI a.D.; a good notion of the persistence of Latin language and civilization in Italian and European culture from the Middle Ages onwards; advanced skills in the research techniques required for the critical exam of Latin texts; competences and skills that are necessary for school teaching and up-to-date methodologies in teaching Latin; mastery of the specific research tools available in traditional or computerized and telematic form in the specific area of Latin texts.

Students will be familiar with the history of Latin didactic; they will acquire and practice the propaedeutic skills to teach Latin in high schools; they will study some Latin passages specifically focused on technic literature.

Students must be skilled in Latin language and in the history of Latin literature.

It is my aim to offer the students the main didactic innovations in the field of Latin Language and Literature, and to give them the appropriate instruments to create their own didactic unities, through a series of specific examples. Special attention will be given to translation, with exercises and examples. We will also have a reading text, which will be Tacitus' Annals, books 14-16.

handbooks:
A. Balbo, Insegnare latino. Sentieri di ricerca per una didattica ragionevole, Torino 2023 (Attenzione: è una nuova edizione completamente rinnovata quindi la vecchia non è riutilizzabile)
F. R. Berno, Italian Job: Decline and (Hopefully) Recovery of the Study of Latin in Italy, in in A. Fricke, M. Reith (eds.), Latein und Griechisch im 21. Jahrhundert, Darmstadt 2021, 219-30 (disponibile sullo spazio Classroom)
M. Bettini, A che servono i Greci e i Romani?, Torino 2019
M. Bettini, Chi ha paura dei Greci e dei Romani?, Torino 2023

Textbook:
Tacito, Annali, a c. di R. Oniga, Torino 2024

Further bibliography:
a) Tacitus:
R. Ash, Tacitus, Annals, Book 15, Cambridge 2018
L. Fratantuono, Tacitus, Annals, Book 16, London 2018
M. Owen/I. Gildenhard, Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23; 33-45, books.openedition.org
E.V. Pagan, A Companion to Tacitus, Malden MA 2012
A.J. Woodman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus, Cambridge 2009
c) didactic of latin:
E. De Jong, I classici e la narratologia, tr. it. A. Cucchiarelli, Roma 2017
P. Monella, Metodi digitali per l’insegnamento classico e umanistico, Milano 2020
d) motivational issues:
I. Dionigi, Il presente non basta. La lezione del latino, Milano 2017
N. Gardini, Viva il latino. Storia e bellezza di una lingua inutile, Milano 2018
M. Recalcati, L’ora di lezione. Per un’erotica dell’insegnamento, Torino 2014
e) SD:
A. Cardinaletti, G. Giusti, R. Iovino, Il latino per studenti con DSA. Nuovi strumenti didattici per la scuola inclusiva, Venezia 2015
‘Nei miei panni’ (Youtube)
https://www.dsastudymaps.it/

The course consists in lectures by the teacher, and personal interventions by students (e.g. presentations of didactic unities).
As for the insights, I will invite some experienced teachers to take part to some lessons.

Attendance is not mandatory, but highly recommended (see bibliography for further information).

The evaluation will be in three steps
1- A written translation (latin-Italian)
2- A didactic unity written by each student
3- An oral evaluation on Seneca’s De Constantia (reading, translating, commenting) and on the bibliography
The written translation will be scheduled during the course, and it is propedeutic to the exam itself; the didactic unity will be prepared during the course and exposed in a lesson; the oral evaluation will be scheduled during the regular exam sessions, at the end of the course. The evaluation of the didactic unity will be part of the final evaluation.
The oral exam, with open-ended questions, is aimed at verifying the knowledge of course topics and the students’ ability to translate and comment the Latin text dealt with during the course. Students who will not be able to attend the course are also required to answer questions related to the complementary
readings (see Texts adopted and reference bibliography). Students are expected to be articulate and to be able to communicate their thoughts and contents with an appropriate language. To pass the exam, the student must get a grade not below 18/30. Students must demonstrate to have acquired a sufficient command of course topics, and to be able to apply the learned didactic principles in practic; they are also expected to show adequate linguistic and translating skills. In order to hit a score of 30/30 cum laude, students must demonstrate excellent knowledge of all course topics, and to be able to connect them in a logical and consistent way.

Please motivate the choice of passages in your UDA
Explain the Tesnière-Happ methodology
Latin didactic in the Reinassance
Translate and comment the passage X among the selected ones

• Presentazione del corso


• Illustrazione delle modalità d'esame


• Situazione del latino in Italia 
  • Books: Balbo cap. 3


• Problemi motivazionali 1
  • Books: Balbo cap. 2


• Problemi motivazionali 2
  • Books: Bettini 2017


• Storia della didattica, 1
  • Books: Balbo cap. 1


• Storia della didattica, 2
  • Books: Balbo cap. 1


• Approfondimento: didattica e fascismo
  • Books: Fascist legislations


• Approfondimento: didattica DSA


• Approfondimento: strumenti digitali
  • Books: Balbo cap. 8


• Come costruire una UDA: teoria ed esempi
  • Books: Balbo cap. 7


• Metodologie didattiche 1
  • Books: Balbo cap. 4


• Metodologie didattiche 2
  • Books: Balbo cap. 4-5


• Approfondimento: il metodo Oerberg


• Lettura, traduzione e commento da Tacito, Annali 14
  • Books: Tac. Ann. 14


• Lettura, traduzione e commento da Tacito, Annali 15
  • Books: Tac. Ann. 15


• Lettura, traduzione e commento da Tacito, Annali 16
  • Books: Tac. Ann. 16


• Esposizione UDA studenti


• Esposizione UDA studenti


• Esposizione UDA studenti


• Versione dal latino
  • Books: A passage from Cicero