The Hindi language: basic level

Course: Hindi Language and Literature and Translation, English Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
The Hindi language: basic level
Code
ННД.08.01.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
10
Learning outcomes
PLO 1. To communicate freely on professional issues with specialists and non-specialists in national and foreign languages (Hindi and English) orally and in writing, use them to organize effective intercultural communication. PLO 8. To know and understand the language system, the general properties of literature as an art of speech, the history of the Hindi language and literature, and to be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities. PLO 9. To characterize the dialectal and social varieties of the Persian languages, describe the sociolinguistic situation. PLO 10. To know the norms of the literary Hindi and English languages and be able to apply them in practical activities. PLO 14. To use Hindi and English in oral and written form, in various genre-stylistic varieties and registers of communication (official, unofficial, neutral) to solve communicative tasks in everyday, social, educational, professional, scientific spheres of life.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Knowledge of the basics of the grammatical terminology of the Ukrainian language and the Latin alphabet.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint students with the complex of knowledge of phonetics, graphic, grammar, vocabulary of the modern Hindi language; to form the skills of correct oral speech in the scope of everyday and country and country studies topics on the basis of actively learned lexical and grammatical material, as well as listening and comprehension of simple texts. The discipline is the first part of the complex discipline "Practical Course of Hindi" and has a purely practical direction.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Delacy R., Sudha J. Elementary Hindi: An introduction to the language. Tuttle Publishing, 2009. 2. Delacy R., Sudha J. Elementary Hindi Workbook. Tuttle Publishing, 2009. 3. Snell R., Weightman S. Teach Yourself Hindi: Complete Course. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 4. Singh B., Kato K. Aao Hindi Sikhe. Let’s Learn Hindi. Vol 1. Goyal Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd, 2010.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The discipline involves only practical classes aimed at forming students' phonetic, lexical and grammatical skills in the process of active work in the classroom. Control of students' assimilation of lexical and grammatical material is carried out by means of their oral questioning and organization of written tasks, tests, lexical dictations, modular test papers. Completion of homework, translation exercises, and handwriting drills after patterns is mandatory.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semestral assessment is based on the oral answers, written tasks and lexical dictations, home works - 24/40 points, modular test papers - 12/20 points. Final evaluation in the form of exam: max. 40 / min. 24 points (60% of the maximum number of points assigned to the exam); the exam is conducted in written and oral forms, the examinational task consists of three questions, viz. 1) grammatical question; 2) conversational topic, one of those learned during the semester; 3) reading and oral translation of an unfamiliar text from Hindi to Ukrainian. Students who in total scored less than 36 points during the semester are not allowed to pass the exam.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian, Hindi

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Anna Hennadiivna Ponomarenko
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Yana Andriivna Shershun
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology