Oral Expression and Conversation

The objective of this course is to help students practice their conversational skills in Italian as well as their listening comprehension and oral expression, while reinforcing the intricate linguistic competence, vocabulary, and grammatical structures they must possess in order to decipher and produce various verbal codes and interact in the Italian socio-cultural context. Group discussions, role-play, visual, and written text analysis from a variety of sources, as well as in-class oral presentation of specific topics, will allow students to engage with language in meaningful contexts.

Required Texts: A course pack will be prepared by the instructor

* Students are also required to participate in the Diction & Pronunciation workshop, as well as in some of the other workshops offered in the evening for this level