The Persian language: Basic Level

Course: Persian language, literature, and translation, English language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
The Persian 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 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 Persian 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 language and be able to apply them in practical activities. PLO 14. To use Persian 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 teach students the basics of the Persian language, to ensure the formation of phonetic, lexical and grammatical Persian language competences in them, as well as mastery of the main types of speech activity (reading, speaking, writing and listening) within the conversational topics provided by the program. Considerable attention is paid to the study of the rules of Latin transcription when transmitting the pronunciation of Persian sounds and sound combinations, as well as during the study of the Persian alphabet. The discipline is the first part of the complex discipline "Practical Persian Language Course" and has a purely practical direction.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Мазепова О. В. Перська мова: базовий курс. К., 2020. 2. Максимів О.Й. Вступ до фонетики сучасної літературної перської мови. Матеріали до практичного курсу. Львів, 2007.2. 3. Українсько-перський словник // Укладачі: А.М. Бочарнікова, О.В. Мазепова, Х.Р. Салімі, В.А. Храновський. К., 2006. 3. Asgari, Mehnaz. Learning Persian vocabulary, 3 books. Tehran, 2005. 4. Zarghamian, Mehdi. Persian language – Training course, 3 volumes. Tehran, 2001.
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 Persian 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, Persian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Amirreza Mokhammadtahi Mollaakhmadi Dekhahi
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Iryna Dmytrivna Levchyn
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology