6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1023342ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
Introduction to the Italian grammar and linguistics. The topics are:
- articles, nouns and adjectives
- the conjugation of the verbs (present and past tenses, conditional, gerund, imperative, ...)
- pronominal structures
- prepositions
- pronouns
- passive structures
- impersonal structures
- hypothetical structures
- expression of hypotheses
- the syntax of complex sentences
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Students are able to analyse Italian sentences and to define the parts of the Italian syntax. They can apply without errors the correspondence between nouns and adjectives and are able to conjugate the verbs in the different tenses. They can express themselves in written and oral form by using simple sentences and can recognize the structure elements in complex sentences by their meaning. They know and understand linguistic metalanguage and the basic concepts of linguistics.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
First examination period
Written exam (70%): the assessment rests mainly on exercises in relation to authentic contexts, yet a small number of questions on the studied linguistic models are part of the examination.
Assessment throughout the semester (30%): the students will have to prepare the grammar exercises and explain them during the course. Over the year the students will study autonomously some grammatical topics and examine them in depth during a presentation in class. By the end of the second term students will deliver a portfolio with an overview of the grammar they have studied.
Second examination period
See first examination period. Presentations and portfolio will be delivered one week before the start of the second examination period.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Frans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Duits-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Italian-Spanish
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language (only offered in Dutch)