Academic staff

Anna Cappellotto, Maria Adele Cipolla, Serena Dal Maso, Chiara Melloni

Credits

50

Language

Inglese

Class attendance

Free Choice

Location

Verona e Bolzano

Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

This course aims to familiarize the students with the phenomenon of nominalization and its relevance for the comprehension of the lexicon-syntax interface. To this aim, several core issues in morphosyntax will be touched upon, such as event and argument structure, theta roles and adverbial licensing, within a comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of nominalization. Typologically and genealogically distant languages will be considered.

Prerequisites and basic notions

There are no specific prerequisites; however, students are encouraged to attend the 'Language Teaching' course after the 'Language Learning' course.

Program

The course will provide students with an overview of foreign language teaching methodologies, with reference to various approaches (audiolingual, communicative, humanistic-affective, etc.). Special attention will be given to analyzing the educational needs of students and identifying learning objectives for students with different characteristics (children, teenagers, adults; students with typical and atypical development, students with special educational needs). The course will describe the most effective teaching techniques for developing receptive skills (listening and reading comprehension) and productive skills (speaking and writing), as well as integrated techniques. Furthermore, there will be a focus on planning a learning unit, selecting, adapting, and creating teaching materials, providing effective feedback to students, and assessment methods (both formative and summative). Finally, an overview will be given on ways to encourage student autonomy in learning and the use of technology and digital resources for language teaching.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course includes both lectures and collaborative learning tasks or group discussion on tasks on topics proposed by the teachers and that may include the use of the Moodle platform. The slides used during classes will be made available on the Moodle platform and will be part of the course program, together with the handbook.
The contents of the exam are the same for attending and non-attending students.
The course will be held in Italian. Erasmus students who have difficulties with the language should contact the teacher during the course and in any case before the exam.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam consists in the elaboration of an in-depth essay on the topics of the course

Assessment

The criteria on the basis of which the essay will be evaluated: - possession of adequate description and analysis skills
- expressive clarity and argumentative ability (specifically, expressive mastery and knowledge of the specific language of the subject)
- originality of the paper