SWEDISH LANGUAGE 2

Swedish Language 2 is offered at the second year of the BA-programme in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LIngue, Civiltà e Scienze del Linguaggio) to the students who have chosen Swedish as one of their two main, three-year languages to be studied. This subject is included in the type B of subjects ("characterizing") or in the type C ("completing"), according to whether it is chosen as the first or the second language. Following this model, Swedish 2 is available in each of the three curricula offered in this BA-programme: the Literary-cultural one, the Linguistic-philological one as well as the Political-international one.

Swedish language teaching consists of a one-year practical language course (two semesters) kept by the lecturer, and of a theoretical module (one semester) kept by the professor. It aims to develop the students’ skills up to level B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages (CEFR); it offers a particular focus, linguistic as well as metalinguistic on the noun and the verb in Swedish.

Knowing and learning to understand: knowledge at a pre-intermediate level of Swedish phonetics, grammar, vocabulary and pragmatic use of language.

Applied knowledge and learning to understand: improving pronunciation and listening comprehension with the help of authentic material (songs, radio, television, newspapers); improving written production through summaries, letters, short compositions; practicing the use of both paper and online dictionaries of Swedish, both monolingual and bilingual.

Independent assessment: learning to summarize and report events and circumstances in a simple and effective way; learning to interact using Swedish in the classroom as much as possible.

Communicative skills: the aim is to reach level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages as for written comprehension and production, oral understanding, production and interaction. As well as this, the aim is to develop a more independent use of language, starting to understand and produce more complex texts.

Learning to learn: acquiring autonomy in the learning process through the materials proposed by the teachers as well as through one’s own sources; developing strategies for a correct use of dictionaries. Developing the attitude to self-assessment and reinforcing the acquired abilities in order to progress towards the next step (Swedish Language 3).

Level A2 of the ECFR, reached by passing the tests of Swedish Language 1.

Swedish Language 2, kept by the Swedish mother-tongue lecturer ("CEL"), starts at the beginning of the academic year and lasts two semesters, whereas the module kept by Massimo Ciaravolo takes place in the second semester only.

Swedish language course:

Morphosyntactic and syntactic aspects: future construction; passive construction; use of prepositions (I); vandrande adverb; if-clauses; the verbs tycka/tänka/tro; satsadverb: nog, väl, ju; reflexive and deponent verbs; possessive adjectives and pronouns (sin/sitt/sina versus hans/hennes/deras); “Biff-regeln”; auxiliary and modal verb: syntax and meaning; verbs indicating position: sitta, stå, ligga versus ställa, lägga, sätta.

Theoretical module:

Linguistic and meta-linguistic reinforcement of the skills that have been acquired during the language course kept by the mother-tongue lecturer, with a particular focus on the noun and the verb in Swedish.

Swedish language course
Kerstin Ballardini, Form och funktion. Verb, Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 2009
Kerstin Ballardini, Form och funktion. Ordföljd, Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 2009
Kerstin Ballardini, Åke Stjärnlöf, Åke Viberg (red.), Mål: Svensk grammatik på svenska, Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 1999

Cecilia Fasth, Anita Kannermark, Form i fokus. Övningsbok i svensk grammatik, Del B, Stockholm, Folkuniversitetets förlag, 1997
Hans Holmgren Ording, Se upp! Svenska partikelverb Lärobok: Svenska partikelverb, Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 1999
Paula Levy Scherrer, Karl Lindemalm, Rivstart. B1 + B2 Textbok, Stockholm, Natur och Kultur, 2015
P. Montan, H. Rosenqvist, Prepositionsboken, Stockholm, Liber, 2013

Språkrådet, Ola Karlsson (red.), Svenska skrivregler, Stockholm, Liber, 2017

Norstedts svenska ordbok (monolingual Swedish dictionary).

Norstedts stora engelska ordbok oppure Norstedts engelska ordbok professionell (Swedish/English dictionaries)

NE:s stora italienska ordbok (Swedish/Italian dictionary)

Theoretical module:

Sara Löwestam, Grejen med verb, Piratförlaget 2014
Sara Löwestam, Grejen med substantiv, Piratförlaget 2017
Uploaded materials on Moodle

Written test: grammar; reading comprehension with multiple choice; guided written production; translation from Swedish to Italian.

Oral test: speaking about a chosen topic (a Swedish or Finland-Swedish person, town or region); conversation about everyday life and activities. Conversation in Swedish about the subjects dealt with in the module.

Language course and theoretical module: frontal instruction and participatory learning. Both the language course and the theoretical module will mainly use Swedish, resorting to Italian if necessary, to summarize, clarify and repeat.

Italian

If you have questions or need further explanations, please write to massimo.ciaravolo@unive.it. Booking time with an e-mail is recommended if you want to meet the professor (a weekly time will be indicated later on).

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development