Scienze Politiche e delle Relazioni Internazionali | ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS I

cod. 1212100008

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS I

	1212100008
	DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES
	EQF6
	POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCIENCE
	2021/2022

CURRICULUM ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

	YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2019
	SPRING SEMESTER

TEACHING UNITS

	SSD	CFU	HOURS	ACTIVITY	TYPE OF ACTIVITY
	L-LIN/12	6	40	LESSONS	BASIC COMPULSORY SUBJECTS

	Objectives
	The teaching is organized in a single module. It aims to achieve a linguistic-communicative competence at least at level A2-B1 of the European reference framework articulated by the Council of Europe. Students will have to become aware of approaches and insights relating to informative and semi-specialized texts. The student must be able to understand and use everyday expressions and semi-specialized terms related to the social sciences with ease. The student must be able to understand informative and semi-specialized texts relating to the English language and linguistics and to specialized languages in English. Furthermore, students will have to acquire the tools of pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis for a critical approach to specialized languages, themes and texts, with particular reference to media and political language. The student must be able to understand and use everyday expressions and specialized terminology relating to the social sciences with ease. The student must be able to understand and produce informative, semi-specialized and specialist texts relating to the English language and linguistics and to specialized languages in English.

The teaching is organized in a single module. It aims to achieve a linguistic-communicative competence at least at level A2-B1 of the European reference framework articulated by the Council of Europe. Students will have to become aware of approaches and insights relating to informative and semi-specialized texts. The student must be able to understand and use everyday expressions and semi-specialized terms related to the social sciences with ease. The student must be able to understand informative and semi-specialized texts relating to the English language and linguistics and to specialized languages in English. Furthermore, students will have to acquire the tools of pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis for a critical approach to specialized languages, themes and texts, with particular reference to media and political language. The student must be able to understand and use everyday expressions and specialized terminology relating to the social sciences with ease. The student must be able to understand and produce informative, semi-specialized and specialist texts relating to the English language and linguistics and to specialized languages in English.

	Contents
	THE COURSE WILL BE STRUCTURED INTO TWO DIFFERENT PARTS: PART I: GRAMMAR: PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, LEXICON, SYNTAX (B1 / B2 LEVEL) PART II: CULTURE: TRANSLATION STUDIES. AIMS: TO PROVIDE A FULL THRESHOLD KNOWLEDGE (B2) IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE A BETTER AND COMPLEX AWARENESS OF THE GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS (CONCERNING PHONETICS, LEXICON, MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX) OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ITS USES IN THE MEDIA. A SPECIAL FOCUS WILL BE GIVEN TO TRANSLATION IN MEDIA IN THE SECOND PART OF THE COURSE.

Contents

THE COURSE WILL BE STRUCTURED INTO TWO DIFFERENT PARTS:
PART I: GRAMMAR: PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, LEXICON, SYNTAX
(B1 / B2 LEVEL)
PART II: CULTURE: TRANSLATION STUDIES. AIMS: TO PROVIDE A FULL THRESHOLD KNOWLEDGE (B2) IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE A BETTER AND COMPLEX AWARENESS OF THE GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS (CONCERNING PHONETICS, LEXICON, MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX) OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ITS USES IN THE MEDIA.
A SPECIAL FOCUS WILL BE GIVEN TO TRANSLATION IN MEDIA IN THE SECOND PART OF THE COURSE.

	Verification of learning
	For each module there is an exam, which includes both a written and an oral test. The one-hour written test is to be held on computer stations and includes multiple choice exercises, text comprehension, text completion and transformation. The oral exam lasting 15-20 minutes includes a general conversation in English and discussion of the teaching contents (lectures and seminars).

	Texts
	FIRST MODULE: - N. CERAMELLA, E. LEE: CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH FOR THE MEDIA, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016. - A GOOD GRAMMAR REFERENCE TEXT SECOND MODULE: -HANDOUTS - C. TAYLOR: LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE: A PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL GUIDE FOR ITALIAN / ENGLISH TRANSLATORS, CAMBRIGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. - R. BERTAZZOLI: TRANSLATION: THEORIES AND METHODS, CAROCCI ED, 2008.

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