- Docente: Tatiana Issoupova
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will have acquired knowledge about the basic grammatical and lexical structures of the Russian language, as well as basic written and oral language competences that will allow them to interact in a limited range of everyday communicative situations.
Course contents
The course is dedicated to absolute beginners and aims to introduce basic language skills regarding the Russian language. The following topics will be addressed:
The Russian alphabet. Russian sounds and letters. Main pronunciation rules. The noun. The gender and number of nouns. Use of various types of pronouns (personal, demonstrative, possessive, questioning, reflexive). The adjective and ordinal numerals. The cardinal numerals. The declination of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals. Use of prepositions. Adverbs. The verb. Transitive and intransitive verbs. Reflexive verbs. The conjugation of verbs. The verbal tenses in Russian. The aspects of the verb. The relationship between the aspect of the verb and the tenses. The simple clause. Some types of complex sentences. Conjunctions. Reading and writing tutorials; grammar tutorials; tutorial in oral production (dialogue and monological).
Readings/Bibliography
Chavronina S.A., A.I. Shirochenskaja – Il russo. Esercizi. Mosca-Roma: Il Punto editoriale (qualsiasi edizione)
John Langran, Natalja Vešnieva, Dario Magnati: "Молодец! Parliamo russo 1". Corso comunicativo di lingua russa. livello A1, Hoepli.
Kovalёv V., Dizionario bilingue russo-italiano e italiano-russo, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2007 (o altra edizione)
oppure
Dobrovol'skaja, Ju., Grande dizionario russo-italiano, italiano-russo, Hoepli, Milano, 2001 (o altra edizione)
Teaching methods
Attendance to at least 70% of classes is mandatory. In addition to the presentation during lessons of the structures characterizing the Russian linguistic system, the communicative teaching method will be applied as well. Students will be asked to fill out exercises, read and translate short texts. They will be tasked with individual homework assignments to be then revised by the professor for the whole duration of the course.
Assessment methods
In order to verify the language competences and skills acquired by students, they will have to pass a final exam at the end of the semester. The exam will consist of a written part to be completed within 2 hours (a lexico-grammatical test) and of an oral part (reading, translation, grammatical analysis of a Russian text, a dialogue about the topics encountered during classes).
The final grade for the whole course will be measured as the average between the grades of each of the two parts of the exam.
Teaching tools
In addition to the texts referenced in this programme, students will be provided with multimedial additional materials that can be found on the website https://iol.unibo.it/ for the carrying out of reading, listening, writing and speaking exercises.
Office hours
See the website of Tatiana Issoupova