54593 - Textual Analysis

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the students will know the main concepts and methodologies for the linguistics analysis applied to modern and contemporary literary texts. They should also be able to analyze the structure and functions of different types of texts, in connection with the function and context in which texts were produced, both in a multimedia and interdisciplinary perspective.

The aim of the course is to select texts and plan teaching units suitable to pupils from 3 to 10 years.

Course contents

Aspects of text analisys that will be focused:

- the selection of readings to be proposed, according to specific linguistic characters (lexical and syntax historical stratifications, rhetorical and metric structures, reading literacy strategies)

the italian editorial offer (textbooks and teacher's guides).

Both literary (fiction and poetry) and non-literary texts will be analysed.

Readings/Bibliography

M.G. Lo Duca, Viaggio nella grammatica, Carocci, 2018 (chap. V, Oltre la frase).

F. Sabatini, C. Camodeca, Grammatica valenziale e tipi di testo, Carocci, 2022 (capp. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6)

C. Lavinio, Consapevolezze linguistiche e testuali per capire i testi letterari, in "Italiano LinguaDue", 1/2022, online.

R. Cardarello - L. Lumbelli, La comprensione del testo. Attività su brani d'autore per le classi IV e V primaria, Giunti EDU, 2019 (I section) .

 

INCOMING STUDENTS must be fluent in Italian. They can agree with the teacher any modification required to the syllabus.

Teaching methods

lectures and practicing.

Assessment methods

Students will take a written test or an oral exam.

Please enroll on the Almaesami Platform.

Criteria for assessing the grade (in a 30-point scale, from 18 to 30L) include both correctness of the answers and formal accuracy.

The final evaluation of the course will be the average of all the marks obtained in the individual parts and in workshop.

The positive outcome of all the parts of the exam is an indispensable condition for recording the final grade.

Teaching tools

Lessons' slides and other materials are available on virtuale.unibo.it platform

Office hours

See the website of Cristiana De Santis

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality

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