2014/2015

2014/2015

DM270

L-LIN/12 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

PAVESI MARIA GABRIELLA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

B2 level of the Common European framework of reference for languages.

The course aims to describe a topic of English linguistics with special reference to its acquisitional, sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural dimensions.

Contexts of acquisition of English as a second language

The course offers an overview of key notions in the field of English as a second language, including spontaneous and classroom second language acquisition (SLA), interlanguage and English Lingua Franca. It focuses on input, that is the language data learners obtain through exposure to English, and its relationship to output or language production. Topics covered include the main input types in naturalistic, classroom and multimedial contexts (e.g. native-native interactions, simplified input, non interactional language). The resulting acquisitional processes and outcomes will be discussed with special emphasis on incidental learning in CLIL - content and language integrated learning - contexts and through exposure to audiovisual input.

Lectures and seminars

Attending students

Ellis, R. 2008. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 3, pp. 67-102.
Gass, S., Selinker, L., 2008. Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course. London/New York: Routledge. (Chapt. 8, Chapt. 10, Chapt. 11), pp. 219-255, 304-362, 368-392.

Formentelli, M., 2012, English Lingua Franca: reality or fiction? Assessing the debate on the status of English as language of global communication. SILTA, XL1, 19-47.

Pavesi M., 2002 “Per una didattica naturale: strategie discorsivi nell’insegnamento integrato di lingue e contenuti”. In F. Maggi, C. Mariotti, M. Pavesi (a cura di), Le lingue straniere come veicolo di apprendimento nella scuola. Como: Ibis, 47-63.

Pavesi, M., Perego E., 2008. “Tailor-made interlingual subtitling as a means to enhance second language acquisition”. In J. Díaz Cintas (ed.), The didactics of audiovisual translation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 215-225.

Verspoor, M.H., de Bot, K. van Rein, E., 2011. “The role of out-of-school language input”. In A. De Houwer, A. Wilton (eds.), English in Europe today. Sociocultural and educational perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 147-166.

Pérez Vidal, C., 2011. “Language acquisition in three different contexts of learning: Formal instruction, Stay abroad, and semi-immersion (CLIL)”. In Y. Ruiz de Zarobe, J. M. Sierra, F. Gallardo del Puerto (eds.), Content and foreign language integrated learning. Contributions to multilinguism in European Contexts. Bern: Lang, pp. 103-127.

Non attending students

Ellis, R. 2008. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 3. pp. 67-102.
Gass, S., Selinker, L., 2008. Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course. London/New York: Routledge. (Chapt. 1, Chapt. 8, Chapt. 10, Chapt. 11), pp. 1-15, 219-255, 304-362, 368-392.

Formentelli, M., 2012, English Lingua Franca: reality or fiction? Assessing the debate on the status of English as language of global communication. SILTA, XL1, 19-47.

Pavesi M., 2002 “Per una didattica naturale: strategie discorsivi nell’insegnamento integrato di lingue e contenuti”. In F. Maggi, C. Mariotti, M. Pavesi (a cura di), Le lingue straniere come veicolo di apprendimento nella scuola. Como: Ibis, 47-63.

Pavesi, M., Perego E., 2008. “Tailor-made interlingual subtitling as a means to enhance second language acquisition”. In J. Díaz Cintas (ed.), The didactics of audiovisual translation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 215-225.

Pérez Vidal, C., 2011. “Language acquisition in three different contexts of learning: Formal instruction, Stay abroad, and semi-immersion (CLIL)”. In Y. Ruiz de Zarobe, J. M. Sierra, F. Gallardo del Puerto (eds.), Content and foreign language integrated learning. Contributions to multilinguism in European Contexts. Bern: Lang, pp. 103-127.

Course knowledge will be assessed by a final oral examination on the course contents.
Attending students who give a presentation during the seminar at the end of the course will be tested on a shortened reading list.

Course knowledge will be assessed by a final oral examination on the course contents.
Attending students who give a presentation during the seminar at the end of the course will be tested on a shortened reading list.