Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
-use the current curriculum for teaching the italian language,
-make suggestions for alternative material(as far as the use of images is concerned) for textbooks already on the market, with the aim of creating teaching material with emphasis on Itallianess,
-give instructions for the use of his material, describing the profile of the potential user for whom he/she produced this material (lesson planning)
-produce complementary material to improve the cultural skills of the students.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Τhe course is structured in 3 axes regarding:
A) Handling key concepts-modules which students will have to face as future language teachers (learning materials, lesson planning, culture, visual literacy, certification of proficiency) and
B) The analysis of learning materials (language and image) to investigate the way in which language and image transmit messages
C) Production of learning material (PORTFOLIO)
Course framework:
Through images we are commenting the Italian reality.
We can make suggestions to change the existing images in textbooks.
Comments on Italian reality through images of textbooks and recommendations change.
Specifically the students have to give:
• Information for the textbooks
• The Structure and presentation of the material units regarding the presentation of culture,
• Where we have culture in the images and texts,
• The Relation between image and text
• Grammatical phenomenon
• Activities relating to culture,
• General Comments for the images and changing proposals.
• Relation between culture and grammar.
Description
The course is offered from the 5th semester onwards, focusing mainly on 7th semester students, as successful student response to it requires successful completion of courses such as research methodology and pedagogical and school practices.Through this course, students first come to terms with the use of curricula for teaching Italian and, on the basis of it, attempt to design a language course using elements of the Italian culture and then present it to their classmates. In other words they have to act as active teachers of the Italian language to the extent this is possible.
Description
EVALUATION (3 approaches)
Approach number 1 Face-to-face course attendance.
1.It is necessary for the student to participate in a quiz that will take place in the last lesson of the semester based on the syllabus that will be posted in e-learning (out of 5 credits) and to prepare an individual or group project (up to 2 people) (out of 4 points).
2. It is an inviolable condition the continuous and uninterrupted attendance of courses - seminars with only two (2) absences.
3. In case of failure in the above procedures, the student is led to the final examinations.
4. The preparation of the project by the student does not automatically imply its successful completion, before the announcement of the grade for each project.
5. It is considered important and contributes to the formation of his final grade, to the approach number 1, by 1 point his active participation in the course and the expression of sufficiently substantiated opinions and judgments.
Approach number 2 Face-to-face course attendance.
1.It is necessary for the student to prepare an individual or group project (up to 2 people) which he/she will present in the classroom (out of 4 points) and a second individual or group project (up to 2 people) which he/she will present in the class (out of 5 points).
2.It is an inviolable condition the continuous and uninterrupted attendance of courses - seminars with only two (2) absences.
3. In case of failure in the above procedures, the student is led to the final examinations.
4. The preparation of the assignments by the student does not automatically imply their successful completion, before the announcement of the grade for each job.
5. It is considered important and contributes to the formation of its final grade, to the approach number 2, by 1 point its active participation in the course and the formulation of sufficiently documented opinions and judgments.
Approach number 3 Non-attendance of the course.
1.The student may take part in the final exams of the course and be examined orally in the syllabus of one of the two offered textbooks through Eudoxus and in the material that will be posted in e-learning (maximum grade 6 points) and he/she is obliged to prepare an individual or group project (up to 2 people) which he must submit to the teacher before the specified date of the examinations.
2.The students that they will work with in the project should have chosen the same way of evaluation.
3.Group projects will be larger in number of words 50% than the individual ones and will contribute with a maximum of 4 points to the final grade of the course.