Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Dr. Valentina Concu


Lehrveranstaltungen

Italienisch A2 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Valentina Concu

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 17:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 5.109 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Die Veranstaltung A2 führt innerhalb von einem Semester zur Vollendung des Niveaus A2 und bereitet auf das Niveau B1 vor. Kurs- und Übungsbuch: UniversItalia 2.0 A1/A2: Italienisch für Studierende ISBN: 978-3-19-165463-4

Italienisch B1 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Valentina Concu

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 7.320 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Die Veranstaltung führt innerhalb von einem Semester zum Niveau B1 des GER.

Übung 5: Introduction to English Linguistics (Übung)

Dozent/in: Valentina Concu

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 5.310 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This tutorial complements the seminar "Introduction to English Linguistics". The purpose and contents of the tutorial are practical activities designed to follow up and illustrate those concepts and methods introduced and discussed in the above-mentioned class. It aims to improve students' skills in using linguistic methods through practical exercises.

Sound Matters: English Pronunciation and Beyond. B2.2 (Übung)

Dozent/in: Valentina Concu

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 5.311 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Spoken language plays a central role in communication, academic study, and professional interaction. However, opportunities to work systematically on pronunciation and spoken fluency are often limited in university language programs. In weekly 90-minute sessions, students explore spoken English through a learning-by-doing approach. Working with their own recordings as well as selected speech samples, students investigate central segmental and suprasegmental features of English pronunciation, including vowel and consonant contrasts, stress patterns, speech rhythm, pausing, and pitch movement. Basic acoustic analysis tools such as Praat are used to visualize and explore these features, allowing students to connect what they hear with observable patterns in the speech signal. Beyond individual sounds, the course also introduces selected insights from conversation analysis to examine how pronunciation and prosody function in spoken interaction. Students explore how features such as pitch movement, rhythm, and pausing contribute to conversational organization, including turn-taking and the flow of spoken dialogue. The course further addresses how pronunciation and fluency are evaluated and discussed in language learning contexts. Students reflect on different forms of pronunciation feedback and consider basic principles of pronunciation assessment, including the role of intelligibility and communicative effectiveness. Throughout the semester, students engage in guided observation, small analytical tasks, and reflective activities using their own spoken data. The course emphasizes pronunciation awareness, analytical confidence, and reflective understanding of spoken language rather than performance-based pronunciation training. In the final part of the course, students consider how insights from phonetics, fluency research, and spoken interaction can inform simple approaches to teaching and evaluating pronunciation in second language contexts. Drawing on selected readings from pronunciation pedagogy, students design small pronunciation-focused learning activities that could be used in classroom settings.