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.
The course aims at increasing students' knowledge in English language, confirming the B1 intermediate level acquired in their secondary school education.
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.
Frontal lesson with interactive activities. Further teaching resources can be found in aulaweb (www.aulaweb.unige.it).
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.
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).
ELENA FIRPO (President)
FEDERICO RAHOLA
28th September, 2017.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE I
Written and oral exam
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.
Futher information can be found in aulaweb (www.aulaweb.unige.it).
