Pillole di italiano

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Pillole di italiano

• A short approach to general and more specific
  fields and means
• of Italian language
• Coordinator Prof. Pasquale GUARAGNELLA
• Università di Bari
• Class Teacher Dr. Rossella ABBATICCHIO
• Università di Bari
• January 28, 2008 February 1, 2008

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General technical aspects of the course

• Collocation optional module in the introductory
  stage of Master for International Business and
  Economic Cooperation (MIBEC - University of Bari)
• Duration 30 hours (laboratories) 45 hours
  (individual studies)
• Addressers graduate students of the Economics,
  Law and Administration fields

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Aims and purposes

• To assess students general level of knowledge of
  Italian language
• To offer some concrete means for communication,
  therefore a better integration in the Italian
  environment
• To focus on the main specific contents and
  structures of the business-and-administration
  variety of Italian language

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Main steps of the module

• Step 1 Speaking, listening and understanding
  Italian language a first training and assessment
  of knowledge
• (Duration 10 hours)
• Step 2 Galateo della comunicazione scritta
  possible approaches and training in written
  language (general contents)
• (Duration 10 hours)
• Step 3 Manuale dellitaliano professionale
  reading, understanding and producing short
  business-and-administration texts in Italian
  language (both oral and written samples)
• (Duration 10 hours)

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Activities of step 1

• Buongiorno, mi scusi. first aid means.
  Reading and listening to role plays about the
  basics of everyday life and communication
• Essere e avere review of grammar basics (verb
  tenses, general lexicon, elements of syntaxis)
• A comando o a invito? Reflections on linguistic
  behaviour (i.e. different uses of modals in
  requests, formal vs. informal linguistic contexts
  etc.)

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Activities of step 2

• Dalla frase al testo I review of the
  key-structures of text composition process
  (syntaxis, connectives, coordination and
  subordination of sentences, punctuation skills
  etc.)
• Dalla frase al testo II First attempts of text
  composition - Production and coordination of
  few complex sentences through punctuation
  Building up a paragraph
• Dentro e fuoritraccia how not to disattend
  the given topic in a composition

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Activities of step 3

• From Caro amico to Spettabile Ente short
  reflection on levels of formality in Italian
  language
• Spa, Sas, Snc, Col patrocinio di
  examples of Italian Law,business and
  administration lexicon
• Alla cortese attenzione di practice on reading
  and writing business texts (letters, invitations,
  application forms, business first contacts etc.)
• Pericolo di burocratese possibilities to avoid
  frequent mistakes and too complicate patterns in
  business Italian

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ASSESSMENT

• Step 1 students will be requested to take part
  in role plays producing segments of speech with
  reference to some everyday communication
  contexts. If possible, part of this activities
  will take place out of the class (in the so
  called contesto di comunicazione reale)
• Step 2 students will be requested to read and
  explain in their own words the contents of texts
  taken from different contexts (from everyday life
  to newspapers and tv to literary works).
  Subsequently, they will be requested to produce
  short texts belonging to the explained
  tipologies.
• Step 3 students will be requested to read and
  explain in their own words the contents of some
  business and administrative texts, and then to
  reply with written texts, therefore to use
  elements of business Italian matching with
  specific chosen texts.

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Bibliographical references - I

• Steps 1 -2
• CHIUCHIU, A., MINCIARELLI, F., SILVESTRINI, M.
  In italiano grammatica italiana per stranieri.
  Corso multimediale di lingua e civiltà a livello
  elementare e avanzato. Perugia, Guerra 1990.
• BOCCHIOLA, M., ILARDI, F., Esercizi di grammatica
  italiana. Hoepli, 2001.
• BALBONI, P., Grammagiochi. Per giocare con la
  grammatica. Bonacci, Roma, 1999.
• AA. VV. Garzanti 2008. Dizionario della lingua
  italiana, Milano, Garzanti 2007
• SOBRERO A., Nuova lingua infinita, Teoria ed
  esercizi, Napoli, SEI, 2002
• SENSINI M., La pratica linguistica riflessione
  sulla lingua, Milano, Mondadori 1998
• BETTINELLI, G., FAVARO, G., Litaliano perle
  regole e gli usi, Guerini e associati, 1991.
• BETTINELLI, G., FAVARO, G., Litaliano
  perIncontrarsi, lavorare, vivere, Guerini e
  associati, 1990.

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Bibliographical references - II

• Step III
• O. BARTOLI, Lei non sa chi sono io teorie e
  tecniche della comunicazione di impresa, Roma,
  Ciuffà, 1993.
• C. CORDUAS, Limpresa, lanima e le forme
  auto-costruire la comunicazione interna, Milano,
  Guerini e Associati, 1996.
• H.E. CHAMBERS, Comunicare con efficacia. Guida
  alla comunicazione per ingegneri, informatici,
  scienziati e tutti i professionisti
  tecnico-scientifici, Etas 2002.
• A. GRIVA, S. PIAZZA, Guida alla comunicazione
  pubblica. Teoria, strumenti ed esperienze, Centro
  Scientifico, 1996.
• V. MASONI, Imparare a scrivere. Lettere,
  relazioni, rapporti, Franco Angeli, 1995.