Second-year English language teaching is annual in duration. In the first semester it consists of the lectorate (language exercises), through which students and female students acquire and consolidate language knowledge to reach level B2 Common European Framework for Languages. In the second semester, teaching consists of the theoretical module in which students and female students acquire peculiar aspects of tourist language and analyze it in real contexts.
The course aims to provide written and oral mastery of the English language to answer the demand in the field of cultural tourism, including the ability to understand specific pre-intermediate texts. The aim of the course is to bring students to a level of mastery of English at B1 level of the Common European Framework for Languages. The four oral and written comprehension and production skills will be developed in parallel, with particular attention to oral skills in the first year. In particular, the theoretical module (36 hours) will address the pragmatic communication. The interpersonal and cultural aspects of 'tourism' communication will be enhanced in order to improve the communicative competence of learners in the domain of study. The tutorials held by native speakers will focus on the development of lexical, morphosyntactic and phonetic skills. Since the course will start from a pre-intermediate level, depending on the results obtained in the entrance test that will be run at the beginning of the course, the main goal is to consolidate the basic knowledge of the code so as to allow for more accurate performance in the four Ability (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN DETAIL Teaching aims to provide basic written and oral proficiency in English to meet the demand in the field of cultural tourism, including the ability to understand specific texts at the level between pre-intermediate and intermediate and interact in typical situations exemplified by the texts. Teaching aims to bring students to a level of proficiency in English that is at the B2 level of the Common European Framework for Languages. The four skills of oral and written comprehension and production will be developed in parallel. At the end of the teaching, students will be expected to possess: - Knowledge and understanding acquire adequate knowledge and an effective ability to understand the various theories of pragmatics. - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding be able to apply acquired knowledge by interpreting communicative events and solving problems that arise during a human communication. - Autonomy of judgment to be able to use both conceptually and operationally the knowledge acquired with autonomous judgment and skill in different application contexts. - Communication skills acquire the technical language typical of the discipline to communicate clearly and unambiguously with specialist and non-specialist interlocutors. Students should be able to identify various registers and know how to adapt their idiolect to the context. - LEARNING SKILLS Develop adequate learning skills that will enable them to continue to independently explore the main themes of the discipline especially in the work contexts in which they will be working.
PREREQUISITES B1+ level skills (Common European Framework for Languages).
TEACHING METHODS Lectures and classroom exercises
Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison.
PROGRAM AND CONTENT
Will be communicated at the beginning of the academic year
TEXTS Murphy, R. (2019, 5th ed.). English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. For the theory module: Material will be uploaded to the Aulaweb platform.
FRANCESCO PIERINI (President)
ROWAN MCBURNEY DRAFFIN
LESSONS START.
September 2024
EXAMINATION The examination is for both the first and second year a written test and an oral interview. The grade for the first year will be averaged with the grade for the second year, which will constitute the final grade for the English Language teaching. Grades are expressed in thirtieths.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT Second exam: written test of grammar, vocabulary, use of English, written production and oral test consisting of an interview in English on the syllabus given in class and found on Aulaweb
