2020/2021

2020/2021

DM270

L-LIN/12 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(28/09/2020 - 11/12/2020)

9

54 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

ROBUTTI GIULIA SUSANNA - 9 ECTS

Students are supposed to have at least a B2 level of English (Upper-intermediate, independent users). They will be assisted in order to become conversant with both Standard English and Academic English vocabulary and style. In addition to this, students will cope with English for Specific Purposes (with a special attention to English for Communication studies) and English varieties. Lessons will be held in English but also Italian will be used, if necessary.

The course aims at providing students with the knowledge, skills and competences related to Standard/Formal English and English for Communication and Media Studies.
In particular, the course contributes to the learning frame of the Corso di laurea in Comunicazione, Innovazione e Multimedialità with the following specific objectives:
-to start to consider English as a system;
-acquisition of the tools for the linguistic analysis and creation of different text typologies, in particular Formal English writing tasks, proposals, letters of complaints.
Many other aspects of the language will be analysed, for instance collocations, idiomatic expressions, polysemy.

Communication and types of communication
Academic English
Talking about languages, language groups, English language
New words in English
Formal and Informal English,
Discourse markers in writing and speech, linkers
Slang, jargon
Functional vocabulary
Polysemy
Collocations
False friends
Phrasal verbs
Word formation, Abstract nouns
prefixes
Suffixes
Roots
Compounds
Use of English in general
Idiomatic expressions
Arts and culture
Old and New Media and related advanced vocabulary
BBC
Media in print
Headline English
Marketing and Advertising
Advertising language and rethorical devices
Advertising and ethics

Normal and interactive lessons

-the dispensa has to be studied by all student;
-verb patterns and verb pattern advanced pdf files: students have to demonstrate to be familiar with verb patterns both during the computer-based and oral exam.
Additional and not compulsory materials to be read:
-Gramley, S., Patzold K-M., A survey of Modern English”, Routledge London
-Goddard, A., The Language of Advertising, London, Routledge, 1998.
-Jackson, H.; Amvela, E.Z., Words, meaning and Vocabulary.
-Crystal., D., English as a Global language, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Everything will be available on KIRO and at Copisteria Clu.

(Professor Elphinstone Micheal)
- Soars, L. and J., New Headway Intermediate. Fourth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
-Students will be given some supplementary materials

Students have to take and pass the prova informatizzata.

Then, they will be asked to prepare and send (two weeks before the date of the oral exam) a tesina in Formal/Academic English in which to analyse the style, contents and language used. They can choose a newspaper article or a commercial. They have to write two/three pages.
Students will be given details about the tesina at the beginning of the course.

For the oral exam they will be asked to prepare an effective PowerPoint Presentation about a topic that is related to the course. Students can seize the opportunity to send the Powepoint presentation to Professor Robutti five days before the oral exam in order to have it corrected.

Students must take into account that both the prova informatizzata and the tesina are valid for one year.