Communicative Competence Development of Language B - Italian, level 4

obligatory courses

Students become acquainted with the language used within the professional domain and Italian companies’ activities. The course does not include translation tasks, its main objective is to present communicative professional language at the medium difficulty level as far as the terminology is concerned.

Classroom
Remote learning

The course is dedicated to the third-year students (first cycle studies) who learn Italian at an advanced level as a first language. The course allows them to become acquainted with the Italian within the professional language use and practise integrated skills. Students who participate in the course continue to study Italian language at the B2+ proficiency level.

The course is relevant to the professional language needs. It aims at enhancing the knowledge of specialized vocabulary at an advanced level; presenting different cultural subtleties necessary to better understand today’s Italian reality, mainly within the company environment; presenting the most important discursive features and formal language register. The course teaching programme concerns the following themes: (1) describing company framework, co-partnership types and companies classification; (2) food and drink sector: food products, ecological and environment-friendly products; (3) brands, marketing, and advertising: labels and their function, commercial slogans; (4) stock exchange, shares and bonds; (5) stakeholders, shareholders, clients and suppliers; (6) conference organization in the company; (7) the job market: professions, searching for a job, salaries, labour contracts, adverts, employees migration, résumé, interview.

Course workload:

Total ECTS points = 4

Classroom activities: I semester = 30h i II semester = 30h = 2 ECTS

Self-study:

Preparation for the classes – 40h = I i II semester: 20h

Preparation for tests and final exam: 20h

40h + 20h = 60h = 2 ECTS

Semester I:

Barile G., (a cura di), Economia aziendale, DeAgostini, Novara, 2010.

Cherubini N., Convergenze – iperlibro di italiano per affari B2-C2, Bonacci, Roma, 2012.

Farneti G., Economia d’azienda, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2007.

+ own materials

Semester II:

Paola Marmini e Giosi Vicentini, Passeggiate Italiane. Lezioni d’italiano, livello intermedio, Bonacci editore, Roma

Katerin Katerinov, Boriosi Katerinov, La lingua italiana per stranieri. Corso elementare e intermedio, Edizioni Guerra, Perugia

Maria Morris, Czasowniki włoskie, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 1999

The student is expected to:

Knowledge:

• have the Italian language knowledge at C1 level, know the linguistic structure as a system, understands its specificity (K1_W01);

• know morphosyntactic structures, understands oral statements at C1 level; knows word definitions and synonyms within the professional domain (K1_W01);

• have a grounded knowledge of lexical and grammar issues indicated in the course description (K1_W02);

• know and understand elements of the Italian culture, understand the role of language in the intercultural and cultural communication, understand cultural differences between Poland and Italy, mostly within the professional language use, have a good knowledge of the Italian reality and socioeconomic conditions in Italy (K1_W10).

Skills:

• have the Italian language knowledge at C1 level according to CEFR, also in typical professional situations which require the knowledge of techniques, strategies and different communication channels (K1_U07, K1_U10);

• analyze in a critical way texts as cultural products, search for authentic specialized texts in Italian, prepare their analysis, evaluation and selection; develop professional skills in Italian (K1_U01);

• be able to develop skills in the Italian language on their own, according to the teacher’s indications; know how to assess the usefulness of particular sources of information, e.g. web dictionaries, corpora, articles etc. (K1_U03);

• identify characteristic cultural elements and interpret in a proper way phenomena regarding the professional Italian language use, react properly in every communicative situation, mostly within professional environment, considering cultural context and using customary expressions (K1_U05);

• prepare speeches in Italian on a given theme, using properly selected source materials (K1_U09), prepare to a job interview, carry out and participate in discussion

Socio-cultural competencies:

• be ready to cooperate and work in a group, assuming various roles and respecting rules of good communication in Italian (K1_K01);

• be ready to specify priorities and plan activities which serve to realize particular linguistic, communicative and professional objectives; understand the need of self-study and continuous upgrading of qualifications (K1_K03);

• be ready to identify and solve properly communication dilemmas in Italian and Polish, mostly within the professional domain which result from the asymmetry of both linguistic systems and cultural differences (K1_K04);

Methods of assessment of students’ work:

- assessment of the active participation in the classes,

- classroom presentations,

- homework,

- mid-term tests

- final exam in the form chosen by the lecturer

Assessment criteria:

The final grade is the average of grades obtained for completing individual course modules. At the end, the teachers of individual KKK components give a grade, taking into account the 50% to 50% rule, i.e. half = work per semester on the basis of partial grades + half = grade from the final test (exam).

The progress assessment and the final exam grade are established in accordance with the following scale:

• more than 90% – 5

• 85%-89% – 4+

• 80%-84% – 4

• 70%-79% – 3+

• 60%-69% – 3

Rules of cooperation of teachers and students:

• three unjustified absences are allowed;

• students are allowed to notify the fact of not being prepared for the classes two times in each semester.

The student needs to receive pass marks for all the modules in order to complete the course.