ENGLISH LANGUAGE I
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ELEONORA FEDERICI
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Annualità Singola
- SSD
- L-LIN/12
Training objectives
- Students will acquire a linguistic, communicative and cultural competence of oral and written English (level B1/B2 QCER). At the end of the course students will possess a good knowledge of lexical and pragmatic aspects, will be able to translate short texts from English into Italian and analyse short literary, tourist and journalistic texts.
Prerequisites
- none
Course programme
- The course introduces the main phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects of the English language. It gives students the descriptive and metalinguistic tools pivotal to the development of an awareness of the building blocks of English through the analysis of authentic materials. A more practical part consists in the linguistic and cultural analysis of different contemporary text types.
The interactive nature of the course calls for an active participation in the classroom during lessons, which will be enriched by practice exercises and by the retrieval of online texts.
Practical lessons by language instructors will tackle phonetical, syntactical and lexical aspects of the English language Didactic methods
- The course is divided into practical lesson by language instructors and theoretical lesson by Professor Eleonora Federici. Language sessions will be held for smaller groups and students will be divided in different classes. Language sessions aim at providing students with knowledge of grammar and a linguistic and communicative competence at least at B1 level. The theoretical module is thought to enable students to learn to analyse different textual typologies with attention to morphology, phonology, semantics, lexis and syntax
Learning assessment procedures
- Annual course taught in English. The course is divided in theoretical lessons held by Professor Eleonora Federici and language sessions with language instructors. The final exam is both written and oral. The written part is made of grammar exercises, reading comprehension and a short translation from English into Italian. The oral exam is based on the materials given in class. Partial exams at the end of each semester will be offered to students who attend classes.
Reference texts
- C. Latham Koenig, C. Oxenden, J. Lambert, English File Intermediate Digital Gold B1 fourth edition student's book and workbook with key, Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780194035613
Per il modulo docente: Biber D., Conrad S., Leech G. (2013) Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Longman (Pearson Education Limited). ISBN 9780194035613
Il Ragazzini 2017 Dizionario inglese-italiano/italiano-inglese, Zanichelli, Bologna
(or any recent bilingual dictionary)
Oxford Dictionary of English (or any recent monolingual dictionary)
Authentic materials will be inserted in the google classroom
