Lingua e Traduzione Inglese is a 60 hour General English (level B2) course + 40 hour Theoretical module course meant to support students in the study of the English language by focussing on expanding their knowledge of syntax and vocabulary, their ability to read and understand written texts at the level B2.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as well as their communicative skills at the same level.
The course aims at supporting students in consolidating their knowledge of the English syntaxt and vocabulary, in addition to their ability to read, understand and discuss written and spoken texts at level B2.1. Students' knowledge and skills will therefore be assessed and students will be supported, both through a practical and a theoretical module, in expanding and consolidating them until all four abilities (reading, writing, listening and speaking) reach a B2.1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- To consolidate students' knowledge of the English syntax
- To expand students' vocabulary
- To help students improve their ability to read and understand written texts at the level B2.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
- To help students develop their understanding of the communicative strategies in English, thereby helping them develop their own communicative skills.
Knowledge of English at Level B1 and, for those who chose to attend the 53394 course, a registered mark confirming that exam has been taken and passed.
Weekly lectures.
First semester:
4 General English hours at week
Classes will be in-presence.
Second semester:
2 General English hours at week + 4 Theory hours at week
Theoretical module:
Introduction to pragmatics, discourse analysis, ESP, EAP, terminology.
General English course:
Morpho-syntactic aspects and vocabulary within the B2.1 level such as: adjectives and adverbs, future, mixed conditionals, modals – can’t have, needn’t have, modals of deduction and speculation, narrative tenses, passives, past perfect, past perfect continuous, phrasal verbs, relative clauses, reported speech, will and going to, for prediction, wish, would expressing habits, in the past
The detailed syllabus can be found on the Aulaweb page of the course.
Those students who cannot attend classes will not be required to integrate the syllabus in any way: they will need to study the same syllabus as those students who can attend.
General English course
Primary sources:
Secondary sources (one of the following sources must be selected for discussion during the oral exam):
Additional material will be uploaded to the Aulaweb page during the course to be downloaded by students.
Ricevimento: Please visit the Aulaweb page for this course.
ELISABETTA ZURRU (President)
MICHELA GRONCHI
MARCO BAGLI (Substitute)
First Semester:
Lettorato: third week of first semester
Second Semester:
Lettorato: first week of first semester
Modulo Teorico: first week of first semester
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
The General English exam is computer-based; the Theoretical module exam is oral.
For the general English part, students will be required to complete test which comprises a range of exercises focussing on syntax, vocabulary and reading and comprehension, based on the syllabus. The exam will be computer-based and take place on the "exams" section of the University's Aulaweb platform. Students will be required to complete a range of exercises ranging from cloze tests, open-ended questions, T/F, multiple choice and reading and comprehension. Only if students pass this test can they take the exam for the theoretical module. For the theory part, students will be required to take an oral exam, in English (level B2), to discuss the primary and secondary sources the theoritical module will be based on. The oral exam will consist of a 15-20 minute discussion on all primary sources and a secondary source that each student will have to select among those listed in the reading list, which they can either comment on and discuss during the oral exam, or which they can use as a stepping stone to present an original text (e.g. a slideshow presentation, an abstract, etc.) that they have produced. Students will not need to email their original texts beforehand, they just need to have them handy on the day of the exam.
Students will need their UNIGEPASS credentials to access both the Aulaweb page for this course and the computer-based exams.
During those sessions when there is more than one sitting (June/July: 3 sittings; January/February: 2 sittings), students can only take the exam in one of those sittings, as exams dates are too close to one another to allow for a significant improvement to have taken place. Those students who are close to graduation, however, can repeat the test, if their supervisor sends me an email confirming the graduation day is approaching.
If students are in possession of a B2 certificate (or above) from Cambridge, Oxford, TOEFL, or IELTS, these can be used in substitution of the computer-based exam (hence, students will still need to take the oral exam for the theorical part), if:
- the certificate was not obtained earlier than 2 years from the date of the exam
- the certificate was not used already in the course of students' academic career (e.g. in the first year to be excused from the CLAT Assessment test, or to have "crediti altri" registered).
For further information, including office hours, please visit the Aulaweb page for this course.
Erasmus students are invited to contact the lecturer during her office hours as soon as they arrive.
Students with disabilities and/or special needs are invited to get in touch with the lecturer during her office hours at the beginning of the course, so that their specific needs can be addressed both in terms of classes and assessment.
