| Course Title : Albanian Language I | ||||||||
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| Code | Course Type |
Regular Semester |
Lecture (hours/week) |
Seminar (hours/week) |
Lab (hours/week) |
Credits | ECTS | |
| ALB 101-1 | B | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.00 | 5 | |
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| Language | Albanian | |||||||
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| Description | The language is a core element of our life. It helps to make possible the communication in our life and at the same time, it shapes our structues of thinking and the way we communicate our thoughts. This is why the better we use the language, the better we get to know ourselves and present our personality to the society. This course aims to give to the students general and special skills in using the albanian language; by improving their skills in writng of the albanian language and by developing their speaking abilities in discourses and different discussions. | |||||||
| Objectives | • To present the students with the basic rules of the art of writing. • To learn the basic issues of the morphological and syntactic regulations. • To make the students achieve better acts of communication through the normative discourse. • To create their papers, writings, studies, diploma etc. through a specialised and normative language. • To encourage the critical approach on the language matters and on the corretion in the cases when the albanian language is not uses correctly. | |||||||
| Course Outline | ||||||||
| Week | Topics | |||||||
| 1 | The Albanian Language in a general view.-the origins and the name-the first documents-the dialects-the alphabet-the normative language | |||||||
| 2 | The vocabulary of the Albanian Language- The types of vocabularies - The explanatory vocabulary and its use | |||||||
| 3 | Semantics- The meaning of the words- The lexical and semantic field- Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms- The idioms of the Albanian Language | |||||||
| 4 | The foreign words in Albanian- Neologism- Borrowings and their types | |||||||
| 5 | The sources of the enrichement of the Albanian Language- Through the translation of the borrowings and the suffixes- The international words and the terminology of different fields. | |||||||
| 6 | The standardisation of the Albanian Language- Skills on correct writing- Characteristics of the standard language- Ilustrations and exercises by examples from the press (the orthographic and grammatical errors) | |||||||
| 7 | THE NOUN, ITS GRAMMATICAL GENDER AND FLEXION- How is formed the plural of the masculine names- Nouns with the same theme in both gramatical genders- The flexion in the Albanian Language - How to write correctly the names of the persons. | |||||||
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |||||||
| 9 | THE PRONOUN- The personal pronoun- The composite short forms in Albanian- The grammatical issue of the short forms- The sintaxis of the personal pronounExercises about the errors in this topics | |||||||
| 10 | - Word order in the sentences - Adjective word order in Albanian Language- The adaptation of the parts of the sentence- The adaptation of the | |||||||
| 11 | - The complex and composite sentences- The main regulations we need to know about these sentences | |||||||
| 12 | The types of composite sentences in Albanian- determinants - leading questions- Time - target- local - causal- consequential - concessive- conditional - comparative- modal - quantitative | |||||||
| 13 | Irregular verbs in Albanian Language- The main principles of punctuation- The role of punctuation into the way we organize our thoughts | |||||||
| 14 | - The classification of the punctuation symbols in Albanian- Special uses of the puntuation - The punctuation in grammaticaly simple sentences- The punctuation in grammaticaly complex sentences | |||||||
| 15 | Repeat | |||||||
| 16 | Final Exam | |||||||
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| Computer Usage | ||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes and Competences | ||||||||
| 1 | Students will acquire basic knowledge of the language and will know how to write without spelling mistakes. | |||||||
| 2 | Students will be able to translate from foreign languages different texts, recognizing radically native language. | |||||||
| 3 | Students will be able to write essays, reports, statements, etc.., Coherently and correctly. | |||||||
| Course Evaluation Methods | ||||||||
| In-term studies | Quantity | Percentage | ||||||
| Midterms | 1 | 20 | ||||||
| Quizzes | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Projects | 1 | 20 | ||||||
| Term Projects | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Attendance | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 50 | |||||||
| Contribution of final examination to overall grade | 50 | |||||||
| Total | 100 | |||||||
| ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload | ||||||||
| Activities | Quantity | Duration (hours) |
Total Workload (hours) |
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| Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course hours) | 16 | 4 | 64 | |||||
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 14 | 2 | 28 | |||||
| Assignments | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Final examination | 1 | 20 | 20 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Total Work Load | 127 | |||||||
| Total Work Load / 25 (hours) | 5.08 | |||||||
| ECTS | 5 | |||||||
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