B1939 - RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LABORATORY II

Academic Year 2024/2025

Learning outcomes

Deepen the linguistic, communicative and intercultural competences. Develop the skills of oral and written comprehension, oral and written expression. Consolidate the word-study of the political language. Develop the ability to search and elaborate material about the historical, cultural, economic and geo-political aspects of the country. Consolidate the skills of oral and written comprehension, oral and written expression on the civilization, the culture and the current affairs.

Course contents

Morphology

Declination of the nouns, the adjectives, the pronouns.

Gender and number of the nouns, the adjectives and the pronouns.

Characteristics of the nominative case.
Characteristics of the accusative case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the prepositive case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the genitive case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the dative case with and without preposition.
Characteristics of the instrumental case with and without preposition.

Notions on the verbal aspects.

Readings/Bibliography

- Khavronina S. A., Shirochenskaya A. I., Russian in exercises, Russky Yazyk Kursy, 2009. (Genitive case, Dative case, Intrumental case; verbs of motion).

- S. Chernyshov, A. Chernyshova, Lets' go! Russian for adults. A course for beginners. Textbook 1.2, Zlatoust, St. Petersburg, 2019.

- 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.

Students will be given articles about actuality and politics taken from the Internet and the most popular newspapers and Russian reviews.

Teaching methods

The course is articulated in 30 hours of lesson, in which the linguistic competences are mainly developed, and in 40 hours of laboratory activities, that privilege the communicative competences and the reading comprehension of historycal, cultural and political articles.

30 hours of self-learning with multimedia material and research in the Virtual Learning Environment 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 II.

The written test will verify the linguistic skills, in particular elements of morphology, vocabulary and reading comprehension (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 DIS.

The oral exam is focused on the communicative competences, on the ability of oral expression with a presentation to discuss during the exam. In particular, attending students can do a presentation using one of the texts analized during the lessons.

The students that do not attend lessons are asked to prepare a paper of any topic related to Russian culture, history and politics to expose during the final oral exam.

Teaching tools

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

Office hours

See the website of Simona Berardi

SDGs

Quality education Peace, justice and strong institutions

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.