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IT301-30 Modern Italian Language III

Department
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Level
Undergraduate Level 2
Module leader
Valentina Abbatelli
Credit value
30
Module duration
22 weeks
Assessment
30% coursework, 70% exam
Study location
University of Warwick main campus, Coventry

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Introductory description

This module will consolidate linguistic skills acquired in previous years and extend them through translation, writing, reading, speaking and listening activities.
A range of assessments will be offered for students to track and reflect on their progress through the provision of regular feedback. Students will also be provided with complementary autonomous learning activities and directed to appropriate activities for self-study in order to develop independent learning strategies.
Modern Italian Language III caters for students who have returned from the year in Italy, for students who took IT107 and are not going to Italy in year 2, and for year 4 students doing a ""with Italian"" degree.

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Module aims

The aim of this module is to encourage and enable students to build on the knowledge and competence in Italian language acquired in previous years, working towards the C1 goals of the CEFR. The module will be shaped around the four key skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. It will hone and develop translation, writing and grammar skills, register awareness and vocabulary acquisition, both general and specialised.

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

The course is divided into writing, translation, and oral work with an additional grammar hour. The writing part of the course aims to familiarise students with a range of contemporary Italian. In particular students will be encouraged (i) to learn how to develop and express an opinion and (ii) to tell a story. Summary work and extensive grammar revision will also feature in this part of the course. This class will foster language awareness through translation from English into Italian and Italian into English. Translation from Italian into English will focus on a range of registers, e.g. contemporary fiction, journalism, critical writing. Students will engage in conversation and learn how to sustain an oral presentation. The grammar hour will enable students to consolidate and refine more advanced grammar structures.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

  • Advanced listening and speaking skills
  • Good ability to understand and critically engage with aspects of contemporary Italian society and culture and intercultural issues associated with them
  • A systematic approach to proof-reading with due attention to accuracy
  • Consolidation of independent language-learning skills
  • A solid command of advanced aspects of grammar
  • An advanced understanding of modes of written expression
  • Advanced reading skills across a range of document types.
  • An advanced understanding of the challenges inherent in translation from and into English (syntax, register, idiom)

Indicative reading list

GP. Grammatica Pratica della Lingua Italiana by Marco Mezzadri. ISBN 9788820125066.

  • Ragazzini 2008 bilingual dictionary and Collins-Sansoni monolingual dictionary

View reading list on Talis Aspire

International

All modules delivered in SMLC are necessarily international. Students engage with themes and ideas from a culture other than that of the UK and employ their linguistic skills in the analysis of primary materials from a non-Anglophone context. Students will also be encouraged to draw on the experiences of visiting exchange students in the classroom and will frequently engage with theoretical and critical frameworks from across the world.

Subject specific skills

This module will build students’ linguistic skills through activities that stimulate authentic target language production and develop sensitivity to the transference of meaning across languages. Students will work towards the production of nuanced, accurate and contextually sensitive materials through a range of language classes and guided independent learning.

Transferable skills

All SMLC culture modules demand critical and analytical engagement with artefacts from target-language cultures. In the course of independent study, class work and assessment students will develop the following skills: written and oral communication, creative and critical thinking, problem solving and analysis, time management and organisation, independent research in both English and their target language(s), intercultural understanding and the ability to mediate between languages and cultures, ICT literacy in both English and the target language(s), personal responsibility and the exercise of initiative.

Study time

Type Required
Lectures 20 sessions of 1 hour (7%)
Seminars 60 sessions of 1 hour (20%)
Private study 220 hours (73%)
Total 300 hours

Private study description

Students will be expected to make use of the TRC, Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) and directed learning and self-study options to complement taught class hours.

Costs

No further costs have been identified for this module.

You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.

Students can register for this module without taking any assessment.

Assessment group D9
Weighting Study time Eligible for self-certification
Combined writing and translation homework 10% No

Sample of best formative throughout the year
Online test 20% No

Grammar + reading & comprehension
Oral examination 20% No

Assessed in the summer
Online Examination 50% No

Translation (into Italian and Into English) (25%) and writing (25%)

~Platforms - AEP

  • Online examination: No Answerbook required
Feedback on assessment

In-class methods: oral feedback, peer discussion, self-correction and scrutiny of common errors.
Outside-class methods: provision of written and oral feedback.

Past exam papers for IT301

Pre-requisites

Any knowledge of Italian equivalent to level 5

To take this module, you must have passed:

Post-requisite modules

If you pass this module, you can take:

  • IT401-30 Modern Italian Language IV

Courses

This module is Core for:

  • Year 3 of ULNA-R300 BA in Italian Studies
  • Year 3 of ULNA-QR38 Undergraduate English and Italian
  • Year 3 of ULNA-RR15 Undergraduate French and Italian
  • UITA-R3V2 Undergraduate History and Italian
    • Year 2 of R3V2 History and Italian
    • Year 3 of R3V2 History and Italian
  • UITA-RQ38 Undergraduate Italian and Classics
    • Year 2 of RQ38 Italian and Classics
    • Year 3 of RQ38 Italian and Classics
  • UITA-R3W5 Undergraduate Italian with Film Studies
    • Year 2 of R3W5 Italian with Film Studies
    • Year 3 of R3W5 Italian with Film Studies
  • UPOA-M165 Undergraduate Politics, International Studies and Italian
    • Year 3 of M165 Politics, International Studies and Italian
    • Year 4 of M165 Politics, International Studies and Italian
  • UITA-R3V3 Undergraduate Taught Italian and History of Art
    • Year 2 of R3V3 Italian and History of Art
    • Year 3 of R3V3 Italian and History of Art

This module is Core optional for:

  • Year 2 of UCXA-VV18 Undergraduate Ancient History and Classical Archaeology with Study in Europe
  • Year 2 of ULNA-QR38 Undergraduate English and Italian
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R1A3 Undergraduate French with Italian
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R4RH Undergraduate Hispanic Studies and Italian
  • Year 3 of UITA-R3V2 Undergraduate History and Italian
  • UHAA-V3R3 Undergraduate History of Art with Italian
    • Year 2 of V3R3 History of Art with Italian
    • Year 3 of V3R3 History of Art with Italian
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R3L4 Undergraduate Italian and Economics (4-year)
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R3Q3 Undergraduate Italian and Linguistics
  • UFRA-R900 Undergraduate Modern Languages
    • Year 3 of R900 Modern Languages
    • Year 4 of R900 Modern Languages
  • Year 3 of UFRA-R903 Undergraduate Modern Languages (3 year)
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R9LA Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (3-year)
  • ULNA-R9L1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
    • Year 2 of R9L1 Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
    • Year 4 of R9L1 Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R9Q1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Linguistics
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R9Q2 Undergraduate Modern Languages with Linguistics
  • UPOA-M165 Undergraduate Politics, International Studies and Italian
    • Year 2 of M165 Politics, International Studies and Italian
    • Year 3 of M165 Politics, International Studies and Italian

This module is Core option list A for:

  • Year 2 of UCXA-Q802 Undergraduate Classics (Latin) with Study in Europe
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R4RL Undergraduate Hispanic Studies with Italian
  • Year 2 of UITA-RQ38 Undergraduate Italian and Classics
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R3L4 Undergraduate Italian and Economics (4-year)
  • Year 2 of UFRA-R900 Undergraduate Modern Languages
  • Year 2 of ULNA-R9L1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
  • Year 4 of ULNA-R9Q1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Linguistics
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R9Q2 Undergraduate Modern Languages with Linguistics
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R9QB Undergraduate Modern Languages with Linguistics (3 year)

This module is Core option list B for:

  • Year 4 of ULNA-R4RL Undergraduate Hispanic Studies with Italian
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R9L1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)
  • Year 4 of ULNA-R9Q2 Undergraduate Modern Languages with Linguistics

This module is Core option list C for:

  • Year 3 of ULNA-R4RH Undergraduate Hispanic Studies and Italian
  • Year 3 of ULNA-R9L1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Economics (4-year)

This module is Core option list D for:

  • Year 3 of UFRA-R900 Undergraduate Modern Languages

This module is Core option list F for:

  • Year 2 of ULNA-RR15 Undergraduate French and Italian

This module is Core option list G for:

  • Year 2 of ULNA-R9Q1 Undergraduate Modern Languages and Linguistics

This module is Option list A for:

  • Year 3 of ULNA-QR38 Undergraduate English and Italian

This module is Option list G for:

  • Year 2 of UCXA-Q821 Undergraduate Classical Civilisation with Study in Europe

This module is Unusual option for:

  • Year 4 of ULNA-R1A3 Undergraduate French with Italian