Oriental Languages and Cultures

Course Title The Essence of Languages: Knowledge, Uses, and Culture for an Educational Perspective Linguistic knowledge, communicative uses, and cultural aspects are closely interconnected. This awareness serves as a solid theoretical foundation for any learning and teaching approach. From this perspective, the course will address the diversity and comparison of languages ​​and cultures, and then, based on these assumptions, will analyze more closely the more specifically linguistic aspects, such as written and spoken uses, vocabulary, grammar, and textuality. This will be done with a view to continuous comparison between languages ​​and cultures, useful for identifying effective teaching approaches. Practical exercises, group work, and, for attending students, the voluntary preparation of a short essay to present in class are planned. Please note that the credits required to pass the Teaching of Modern Languages exam (L-LIN 02) are valid as a prerequisite for participation in the DITALS exams (Certification of competence in teaching Italian to foreigners) of I and II level.

Not required

National school guidelines Texts and / or materials will be communicated during the course.

face-to-face lectures

The exam consists of two parts: written and oral. The two parts must be carried out in the same appeal. The written test consists of six (6) open-ended questions and lasts 40 minutes. The written test is not accompanied by any evaluation, but only by the indication of being able to take the oral test. If both parts of which the exam is composed are not passed (in the same round), the exam is considered as not passed and both tests must be re-held. Failure to submit to the oral test is equivalent to waiving the exam. Attending students can write a paper to present in the classroom. These students do not have to take the written test.

Workshop activities are provided. Attending students can illustrate a paper in class.