This module is designed for students who have completed a course of study leading to GCSE level or equivalent or who have completed Italian Language A and B (modules CE3091 & CE3092). A period of revision of basic language skills and knowledge will be followed by training in the skills of speaking, listening and reading.  Students with an 'A' level in Italian are not permitted to take this module.

METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of digital language laboratory.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20% ii) Reading comprehension 20%. iii) Oral end test 30%. iv) Aural end test 30%.

Email: languages@cardiff.ac.uk

• Communicate orally in Italian in most predictable survival, social and study situations
• Use communicative strategies to help cope with unpredicted learning situations
• Demonstrate understanding of Italian spoken at normal or near normal speed in a variety of situations
• Have sufficient grasp of syntax to use present and past tenses with confidence, although perhaps not always accurately
• Read longer passages of prose of a non-technical nature and demonstrate understanding of both gist and detail
• Use all the equipment in the laboratory appropriate to his/her learning style

This module will be taught in small groups to encourage interaction. The emphasis will be on communication. The module is taught over 12 weeks.

Intellectual Skills                       -    integrate information provided in taught sessions and private study. 

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

1. demonstrate their ability to understand simple instructions and respond appropriately in everyday situations,
2. demonstrate their ability to communicate in spoken and written form using limited vocabulary and formulaic expressions,
3. collect information from short texts in the target language. 

Employability Skills:      - to be responsive to the discipline of working with others as part of a group,

                                            - to understand and reflect upon different cultures and societies

• Revision of essential functions, notions, lexis and  syntax
• Development of confidence in oral/aural skills in all survival and some social and study situations
• Reading comprehension: lengthier pieces of prose for gist and detailed understanding
• Practice in classroom and laboratory of elements of phonology
• Topics will include: family life, talking about the past, food and drink and shopping  

Required:

Italian Espresso 1, Alma Edizioni 2006

Suggested:

Tony Giovanazzi, Basic Italian grammar, London John Murray 1996

Marco Mezzadri, Essential grammar in practice : a reference and practice book for students from elementary to intermediate, Perugia : Guerra 2001