39974 - Russian Language (Course and Laboratory) I

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have developed basic linguistic and communicative competence, achieving a TEU - A1 level according to the TORFL. The course places a particular emphasis on speaking skills related to everyday life and specific topics relevant to their field of study. By the end of the course, students will be able to: - Understand and use basic expressions to meet simple practical needs in various settings such as shops, post offices, banks, restaurants, public transportation, medical appointments, and classrooms. - Introduce themselves and others. - Ask and answer questions about personal details, including their place of residence, work, or study. - Provide information about their relatives, friends, and possessions. - Formulate expressions related to greetings, thanks, and apologies. - Express additional time-related concepts.

Course contents

Stressed vowels and reduction of unstressed vowels.
Voiced and voiceless consonants, hard and soft consonants. Fundamental principles of Russian orthography.

Morphology: Gender and number of the nouns, the adjectives and the pronouns. Adverbs of manner and time.

Characteristics of the nominative case.

Characteristics of the accusative case with and without preposition.

Characteristics of the prepositive case with and without preposition.

General notions on numerals.

Syntax: simple statements, interrogative and negative sentences.

Verb: I and II conjugation (regular and irregular verbs).Use and conjugation of the verbs khotet' (to want), ljubit' (to love), moch' (can, to be able), of the word dolzhen (must) with the infinitive and of some other irregular verbs. Present tense. Past tense. Future tense (imperfective).

Readings/Bibliography

- S. A. Chavronina, A. I. Širočenskaya, Il Russo Esercizi, Il Punto editoriale, Roma, 2007 oppure la versione in inglese - Khavronina S. A., Shirochenskaya A. I., Russian in exercises, Russky Yazyk Kursy, 2009. (Corso introduttivo, Caso Prepositivo, Caso Accusativo).

- S. Chernyshov, A. Chernyshova, Lets' go! Russian for adults. A course for beginners. Textbook 1.1, Zlatoust, St. Petersburg, 2019.

- S. Berardi – L. Buglakova, KRASKI-A1. Nuova edizione aggiornata. Corso comunicativo multimediale per l'autoapprendimento della lingua russa di livello principiante A1. CD-Rom, CLUEB, Bologna, 2011.

- S. Berardi – L. Buglakova, KRASKI-A2. Nuova edizione aggiornata. Corso comunicativo multimediale per l'autoapprendimento della lingua russa di livello A2. CD-Rom, CLUEB, Bologna, 2012.

Additional readings:

- N. Nikitina, Esercizi di russo, livello A1, Hoepli, Milano, 2023.

- D. Bonciani, R. Romagnoli, Mir tesen. Fondamenti di cultura, storia e letteratura russa, seconda edizione, Hoepli, Milano, 2023.

- V. Kovalev, Il Kovalev, Dizionario russo-italiano italiano-russo, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020 (Quinta edizione).

Teaching methods

The course is articulated in 30 hours of lessons, in which the linguistic competences are mainly developed, and in 40 hours of laboratory activities, that privilege the communicative competences.

30 hours of self-learning with multimedia materials in the virtual learning envinroment of the University of Bologna are recommended.

Assessment methods

The students are asked to take a written and an oral exam.

During the course, attending students can take two written mid-term tests (who have an attendance rate of no less than 70% of the lessons). The first mid-term test constitutes 30% of the final grade, while the second mid-term test constitutes 70%. To access the oral exam it is necessary to have at least 18/30 in the average of the written evaluations. If the attending student does not reach at least 18/30 in the average of the assessments of the written tests, he can repeat only the test with a negative result once during the session of the exams. After an attempt to recover a mid-term test, if the test is not sufficient, the total written exam must be taken, i.e. containing all the topics covered in the two mid-term tests. Having passed the two mid-term tests separately or in an integrated way will be a necessary condition to access the oral exam of Russian Language and Laboratory I.

The written test will verify the linguistic skills, in particular elements of morphology and vocabulary (the facsimiles of the tests will be published on the virtual platforms of the University).

The written tests are valid for two sessions of the academic year in which they were held for the course SID.

The oral test focuses on the communicative competence, assessing the ability to speak and understand the topics mentioned above. In particular: the student must be able to introduce himself, to talk about himself and his family, his typical day, his language skills, his study or profession, his interests and the city in which he lives.

Teaching tools

PC; video projector; Microsoft Teams; platform Virtuale; EOL.

Office hours

See the website of Simona Berardi