Overview

This 30 credit module running throughout the year promotes appropriate use of style and register in all written and oral work and ensures that students can deal with variations in register and idiomatic expression in a confident and accurate manner. Through exposure to selected texts, complex grammatical structures and audiovisual materials, students acquire reading, writing, aural and oral skills which match the required standard of final year linguists.

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Any other learning resources: Writing classes dossier; Translation classes dossier.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate an ability to communicate fluently and accurately in the TL.

• Demonstrate in essay and translation work a sophisticated command of both Italian and English/Welsh that is alive to the rhetorical range of both languages.

• Display an ability in oral work to present in fluent Italian arguments that could be followed by native speakers of Italian with comparative ease.

• High level of aural proficiency.

• To understand and process complex texts and audiovisual materials varying in style, tone and register and comment on these texts in a concise and fluent manner.