Program Overview

ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE_COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Overview

The course, comprising 24 hours of lessons, aims to develop the learners' communicative competence in Italian, focusing in particular on receptive language skills (reading and listening comprehension) and metalinguistic competence.

Aims and Content

Learning Outcomes

The course allows the student to achieve a sufficient oral and written comprehension of the local language, as well as an introduction to country culture.

Aims and Learning Outcomes

Development of the learners' communicative competence in Italian, with particular regard to receptive language skills (reading and listening comprehension) and metalinguistic competence.

Teaching Methods

• Interactive lessons in presence
• Oral exchanges in pairs and small groups

Syllabus/Content

Lexical Elements

• Greetings
• Nationalities
• Classroom objects
• People and school environments
• Physical appearance
• Body parts
• Time
• Hobbies
• Leisure activities
• Days of the week
• Months
• Seasons
• Weather conditions
• Professions
• Family names
• Dishes
• Courses
• Meals
• Food
• Drinks
• Table settings
• Clothing
• Colors
• Means of transportation
• Shops
• Rooms in the house
• Places in the city
• Sports
• Holidays
• Vacations

Communicative Elements

• Introducing oneself
• Asking for and stating one's name, nationality, and age
• Asking for and stating how one feels
• Spelling in Italian
• Expressing agreement, disagreement, uncertainty, and doubt
• Asking for and stating where one works
• Asking for and stating what one studies
• Expressing an opinion
• Asking for explanations
• Describing physical appearance
• Ordering at a café
• Asking for and telling the time
• Accepting or refusing an invitation
• Talking about leisure activities
• Describing the weather
• Asking for and stating one's birth date
• Asking for and stating what day it is
• Organizing a trip
• Giving well wishes
• Asking for and stating the weather conditions
• Describing a person's character
• Asking for and giving an address
• Talking about family
• Ordering at a restaurant
• Locating objects in space
• Talking about daily habits
• Shopping in a store
• Describing one's home
• Asking for information about a course
• Talking about health
• Interacting in a pharmacy
• Telling what one did over the weekend
• Talking about a vacation
• Talking about holidays

Morphosyntactic Elements

• Alphabet
• Subject personal pronouns
• Pronunciation of and
• Formal and informal distinctions
• Affirmative sentence
• Negative sentence
• Interrogative sentence
• Gender and number of nouns and adjectives
• Formation of masculine and feminine
• Qualifying adjectives
• Noun-adjective agreement
• Cardinal and ordinal numbers
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Present tense of regular, irregular, and reflexive verbs
• Demonstrative and possessive adjectives
• Adverbs of frequency
• Simple prepositions
• Brief introduction to past perfect

Recommended Reading/Bibliography

• Fumagalli, L., Rota, D. & Bozzone Costa, R., C. Ghezzi & M. Piantoni (2024), Italiano da zero, Loescher Editore
• Reference will be made to this grammar book: Morano, L. (2024), Alfa Beta Gramma, Nina edizioni

Teachers and Exam Board

Teacher

• LAURA MORANO
  • Students may contact the professor by e-mail.

Exam Board

• LAURA MORANO (President)
• ROBERTO SACILE
• DAVIDE ANGUITA (President Substitute)

Lessons

Lessons Start

Lessons will start on Thursday, September 25, 2025.

Class Schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

Exams

Exam Description

• Written and oral exam

Assessment Methods

• Written and oral exam

Exam Schedule