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CODE 80238
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
CREDITS
LANGUAGE Inglese
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 1° Semester

OVERVIEW

The course (36 hours)  is for the first-year students of Communication Science. It is subdivided  into two main parts: the first one will focus on the communicative language, the second one  will allow the students to study  professional English.

 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at increasing students' knowledge in English language, confirming the B1 intermediate level acquired in their secondary school education.

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The course aims to encourage language awareness and to provide some useful metalinguistic instruments for reaching an awareness on the students’ part of their own processes of language learning; indeed, an important objective is to guide students towards autonomous learning. Textual and morphological analysis (including the use of examples of realia taken from various fields of international communication) will be used as practical examples of features of theory.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal  lesson with interactive activities. Further  teaching resources  can be found in aulaweb (www.aulaweb.unige.it).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course is divided into two main parts:  the first part will focus on linguistic  analysis of communicative language with particular attention to the language of  everyday life. Lessons will be held with interactive methods but they require an amount of individual study which may vary depending on the linguistic level of each student. The second part of the course will analyse different text types and genres  related to the media  and it is designed to improve comprehension, simple communication skills and specialist language knowledge.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chris Redston & Gillie Cunningham . face2face (B1 Pre-intermediate). Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press + DVD-ROM

Student’s book  ISBN 978 - 1 – 107 – 42207 – 0

Workbook with key ISBN 978 – 1 – 107 – 60353 – 0

 

 

Nick Caramella and  Elizabeth Lee. Cambridge English for the Media. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press + audio CD

ISBN 978 – 0 – 521 – 72457 – 9

 

NOTE: for students with LD (Leraning Disorders) it is possible to buy the Online workbook of  face2face. In this case they should buy the Student’s book  and Online workbook with ISBN 978 – 1 – 139 – 56658 – 2  

 

Additional  recommended readings but not obligatory (dictionaries, grammar etc.) can be found in aulaweb (www.aulaweb.unige.it).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ELENA FIRPO (President)

FEDERICO RAHOLA (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

29th September,  2016.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written and oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The course is assessed through a written exam  and an oral exam. The purpose is to assess reading and comprehension skills, listening and speaking, grammar and vocabulary.

 

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
10/07/2017 10:00 SAVONA Scritto + Orale

FURTHER INFORMATION

Futher information can be found in aulaweb (www.aulaweb.unige.it).