RUSSIAN LANGUAGE I mutuato
LINGUA RUSSA I
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 9 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Antonella Cavazza | Thursday, 4.30pm-5.30pm. By email appointment. |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
Russian
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course offers an in-depth study of the sounds and graphemes of contemporary Russian, to help students master the essential rules to be autonomous in reading and understanding written and oral texts; it will also provide some tools for carrying out an initial morphemic analysis of words, useful for understanding and memorizing words without the use of a dictionary. The study of phonetics and lexicon will be supported, on the one hand, by some basic notions of the history of the Russian language relating to the origins of the Cyrillic alphabet and, on the other, by some essential information on the geo-sociolinguistics of today's Russia.
Program
1. The Cyrillic alphabet: sounds and graphemes 1.1 Origin of the Cyrillic alphabet 1.2 The origins of the Russian literary language 1.3 The theory of diglossia 1.4 Reforms of the Cyrillic alphabet in Russia 1.5 Transliteration systems. Scientific and commercial transliteration 2. Linguistic features of the standard variety 2.1 The graphic and phonetic system 2.2 Vowel and consonant phonemes 2.3 Russian vowels and consonants 2.4 Classification of vowels 2.5 Vowel reduction 2.6 Classification of consonants 2.7 Palatalized and non-palatalized consonants 2.8 Voiced and voiceless consonants 2.9 Muting of consonants 2.10 Voicing of consonants 2.11 Stop consonants 2.12 Fricative consonants 2.13 Affricate consonants 2.14 Indigenous lexicon and loanwords 2.15 Stylistic-functional differentiation of the contemporary Russian literary language 3. Poor linguistic characteristics of the variety 3.1 The Russian national language 3.2 The popular language (gorodskoe prostorečie) 4. Geo-sociolinguistic image of today's Russia 4.1 Languages, religions and cultures of the Russian Federation 4.2 Russian as a tool for interethnic communication 4.3 Where Russian is spoken today 5. Word formation 5.1 Roots, suffixes and endings of nouns and verbs
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: Students acquire basic knowledge of phonology, morphology and sociolinguistics and will be able to describe the peculiarities of the Russian language.
Applied knowledge and understanding skills: ability to perceive and produce, both orally and in writing, sequences of unfamiliar sounds; ability to independently apply the fundamental rules of Russian orthoepy when reading simple texts; ability to orient yourself in the formation and study of words; ability to recognize and appropriately use different transliteration systems.
Making judgements: Students will be able to evaluate measures and interventions of a political nature on the Russian language within the Russian Federation and in the countries of the former USSR.
Communication Skill: Students will be able to communicate in Russian at elementary level (A1).
Learning skills: at the end of the course, students will acquire the tools and basic notions necessary for the study of the contemporary Russian language.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Inteactive lessons.
- Innovative teaching methods
Use of online resources useful for memorizing lessons, such as, for example, the "Google keep" application for the creation of a shared logbook and the formulation of a series of questions on the program carried out for the student's self-evaluation.
- Attendance
Attend the first lesson or contact the teacher before the end of the course. Follow the diary of classroom lessons on Blended.
- Course books
Cavazza, A. Elementi di lingua e di cultura russa , in Insegnare italiano a stranieri: percorsi operativi , a cura di G. Carloni, Francoangeli, Milano, 2015, pp. 152-166.
Fici Giusti, F., Gebert, L., Signorini S., La lingua russa , La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1991, p. 18 nota n. 1.
Garzaniti, M., Gli Slavi, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni , Carocci, Roma, 2019, pp. 135-156; 160-168; 175-189, 2a ed.
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Živov V., Il russo , Scandicci (Firenze) 1995, pp. 3-13; 24-27; 87-100; 155-172; 247-264.
Lasorsa, C., Il russo , Mosca 1983, pp. 7-51.
Mazzitelli, G., Ancora sul problema della traslitterazione dei caratteri cirillici , in “Bollettino AIB”, ISSN 1121-1490, vol.48, n.4 (dic. 2008), pp. 343-357.
Pul'kina, IM, Breve prontuario della grammatica russa , «Lingua russa», Mosca, 1990, pp. 271-280; 295-299.
Saronne, ET, Alberti, A., Chi sono gli Slavi? , Bologna 2002, pp. 114-117.
Uspenskij, BA, Storia della lingua letteraria russa , tr. di N. Marcialis, Bologna 1993, pp. 37-42.
- Assessment
Oral, written exams and language tests. The final exam will evaluate metalinguistic knowledge and language skills at the required level. In particular, the assessment will test the following skills: writing (33% of all votes), oral (33%) and metalinguistic knowledge (33%). The metalinguistic exam ("monographic course") is a written test. They consist of 31 multiple choice questions in Italian, mainly to evaluate both the knowledge acquired and the applied understanding skills. The use of dictionaries is not permitted during this test. The criteria for evaluating the test are: - relevance and correctness of the answers with respect to the contents of the program - ability to apply knowledge to specific cases - ability to critically reflect on concepts and processes - knowledge of metal language Any grade for the "monographic" course lower than 18/30 does not constitute a pass.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Attendance
Attend the first lesson or contact the teacher before the end of the course. Follow the diary of classroom lessons on Blended.
- Course books
Cavazza, A. Elementi di lingua e di cultura russa , in Insegnare italiano a stranieri: percorsi operativi , a cura di G. Carloni, Francoangeli, Milano, 2015, pp. 152-166.
Fici Giusti, F., Gebert, L., Signorini S., La lingua russa , La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, 1991, p. 18 nota n. 1.
Garzaniti, M., Gli Slavi, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni , Carocci, Roma, 2019, pp. 135-156; 160-168; 175-189, 2a ed.
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Živov V., Il russo , Scandicci (Firenze) 1995, pp. 3-13; 24-27; 87-100; 155-172; 247-264.
Lasorsa, C., Il russo , Mosca 1983, pp. 7-51.
Mazzitelli, G., Ancora sul problema della traslitterazione dei caratteri cirillici , in “Bollettino AIB”, ISSN 1121-1490, vol.48, n.4 (dic. 2008), pp. 343-357.
Pul'kina, IM, Breve prontuario della grammatica russa , «Lingua russa», Mosca, 1990, pp. 271-280; 295-299.
Saronne, ET, Alberti, A., Chi sono gli Slavi? , Bologna 2002, pp. 114-117.
Uspenskij, BA, Storia della lingua letteraria russa , tr. di N. Marcialis, Bologna 1993, pp. 37-42.
- Assessment
Oral, written exams and language tests. The final exam will evaluate metalinguistic knowledge and language skills at the required level. In particular, the assessment will test the following skills: writing (33% of all votes), oral (33%) and metalinguistic knowledge (33%). The metalinguistic exam ("monographic course") is a written test. They consist of 31 multiple choice questions in Italian, mainly to evaluate both the knowledge acquired and the applied understanding skills. The use of dictionaries is not permitted during this test. The criteria for evaluating the test are: - relevance and correctness of the answers with respect to the contents of the program - ability to apply knowledge to specific cases - ability to critically reflect on concepts and processes - knowledge of metal language Any grade for the "monographic" course lower than 18/30 does not constitute a pass..
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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