A-Level Italian (AM 20) MATSEC | London | Oxford etc.

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A-Level Italian Syllabus 2010

AIMS

Advanced specifications should:

develop students’ ability to understand the spoken and written forms from a variety of registers;
develop students’ ability to understand a wide range of texts of a certain complexity at the lexical,
syntactic and content level;
develop students’ ability for extended listening, speaking, reading and writing;
develop students’ ability for appropriateness in oral and written production at the socio-linguistic and
socio-cultural levels;
encourage students to communicate confidently, clearly and effectively through both the spoken and
written word, using increasingly accurate, complex and varied language;
develop students’ insights into, and encourage contact with, through newspapers and TV/radio news
bulletins, the contemporary society, cultural background, literature and heritage of Italy;
provide a suitable foundation for further study and/or practical use of the foreign language;
provide a sufficient basis for further study at degree level or equivalent;
develop students’ ability to write critical appreciation of literary texts.