The Hindi language: intermediate level

Course: Hindi Language and Literature and Translation, English Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
The Hindi language: intermediate level
Code
ННД.08.02.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
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
Successful mastering of the professional discipline "The Hindi language: basic level"; knowledge of graphics, phonetics, basic vocabulary and grammar of the modern Hindi language, possession of elementary skills and abilities corresponding to the basic level of language proficiency.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to provide students with practical mastery of various types of speech activity of the Hindi language within the scope of topics and competencies provided by the program. The students improve their communicative competence: listening and understanding of elementary discourse, reading the text and the ability to reproduce what has been read, the ability to communicate on topics defined by the program, and written communication skills. The discipline is the second part of the complex discipline "Practical Course of the Hindi Language" and has a purely practical orientation.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Snell R., Weightman S. Teach Yourself Hindi: Complete Course. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 2. 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

Yurii Volodymyrovych Botvinkin
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology