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Russian Specialised Texts (Year 2)
Professor Anna Bonola
Russian Language Practical Classes (Year 2)
Dr. Anna Krasnikova
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Russian Specialised Texts (Year 2)
PROFESSOR ANNA BONOLA
COURSE AIMS
The course comprises 30 hours of theoretical lectures and 80 hours of practical
classes (see Russian Language Practical Classes, Year 2, Dr. A. Krasnikova,
below) and will illustrate the features of specialist Russian language in the fields of
science, economics, bureaucracy/business, tourism and the media.
COURSE CONTENT
– Presentation of the morphosyntactic, lexical and textual features of specialist
Russian language areas;
– Comparison between Russian and Italian texts in different specialist language
areas;
– Terminology used in specialist language fields of Russian and relevant
lexicographical tools.
READING LIST
O.N. GRIGOR'EVA, Stilistika russkogo jazyka, NVI-Tezaurus, Mosca, 2000.
O.A. KRYLOVA, Lingvističeskaja stilistika, Izd.tvo “Vysšaja skola”, Mosca, 2006.
E.A. ZEMSKAJA, Russkaja razgovornaja reč’, Flinta-Nauka, Mosca, 2006.
The texts in the Materiali del corso (‘course materials’) section on Blackboard.
Attending students will find the Blackboard materials sufficient.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures taught in the Russian language and listening to audio recordings plus several
hours of practical classes using the Russian national corpus.
Students must also attend the 10 hours of Russian language practical classes held by Dr.
N. Stoyanova to maximize their practical application of the language. The timetable for the
practical classes will be agreed with the students at the start of the course.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Russian oral exam in which they will present their analysis of a number of different
documents written in a specialist language area (for a total of 15-20 pages), chosen in
agreement with the lecturer (the student must submit their proposal at least 2 weeks before
the session in which they plan to sit the exam). This will be followed by a discussion about
the methods used and outcome of their analysis.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG or on the Faculty notice
board.
Russian Language Practical Classes (Year 2)
DR. ANNA KRASNIKOVA
COURSE AIMS
The course of Russian Language Practical Classes supports the Russian Specialised
Languages course of Professor Anna Bonola and has the objective of developing
the student’s abilities to speak and write in Russian.
COURSE CONTENT
Students will listen to and read original works and prepare discourses to be
delivered in both written and oral form.
READING LIST
The reading list will be communicated at the start of the course.
TEACHING METHOD
Practical classes in the classroom.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Final written exam consisting of the production of a written text (600-1000 words),
starting from the written or spoken cues given by the lecturer.
The written exam is the same for all curricula and will be marked automatically. The
exam lasts for 2 hours. The student may bring monolingual and bilingual dictionaries to the
exam.
NOTES
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG or on the Faculty notice
board.