Group a-k and l-z: Prof. Pierfranca Forchini course aims

Group A-K and L-Z: Prof. Pierfranca Forchini

COURSE AIMS

1. Standard British English and General American English; varieties of English.

2. The International Phonetic Alphabet.

3. Aspects of segmental and suprasegmental phonology.

Compulsory manuals and dictionary:

Additional information on the reading list will be given during the course.

Recommended manuals:

M. Hancock, English Pronunciation in Use (with CD-ROM), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

P. Trudgill-J. Hannah, International English: a guide to the varieties of standard English, Arnold, London, 2002, 4^th ed.

Additional information on the reading list will be given during the course.

The reading list for non-attending students will be published on Blackboard.

TEACHING METHOD

Lectures and practical language classes.

Written exam to qualify for the oral exam.

The language of instruction is English.

The student must register with the Blackboard version of this course.

Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice board.

English Language Practical Classes (Year 1, Three-year Course students)

Dr. Lucia Arnò; Dr. Catherine Bell; Dr. Laura Belloni; Dr. Paola Biancolini; Dr. Nara Carlini; Dr. Anthony Farrugia; Dr. Laura Ferrario; Dr. Alison Frrell; Dr. Stephen Liti Mutunga; Dr. Caterina Pavesi; Dr. Jane Pollard; Dr. Michela Porro; Dr. Paul Prostitis; Dr. Stefania Riglione; Dr. Giovanna Taglialatela; Dr. Luisa Tracogna; Dr. Mimi Watts; Dr. Tobias Willis

The student will learn and/or consolidate the basic grammatical and lexical structures of the English language, developing the four linguistic abilities of reading, writing, spoken communication and listening with a focus on the basic skills of phonetics and phonology.

The course is designed as follows:

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  Study and acquisition of English grammar and vocabulary;
  
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  Learning of the IPA;
  
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  Introduction to translation into English, focusing on contrastive grammar;
  
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  Oral reception and production drills;
  
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  Exercises on phonetics and phonology;
  
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  Dictation.
  

The student is advised to buy a monolingual and a bilingual dictionary that will support them throughout their study cycle.

Recommended dictionaries

Bilingual:

Monolingual:

Basic manuals

Additional materials will be indicated during the course.

Lectures and guided language learning in the multimedia lab.

Final written and oral exams (called intermediate tests). The written exam will test the student’s knowledge of grammar through different kinds of exercises: written comprehension, free writing, short translation from Italian into English, IPA recognition, and dictation.

The oral exam will require the student to discuss the written and audio content on the English-speaking civilizations of the textbook Life and to take an IPA-word recognition quizz. The oral will test the student’s ability to understand, communicate and interact in face-to-face situations, so they will need to demonstrate correct use of phonetics and phonology, communicative fluency, grammatical accuracy, good vocabulary and the ability to interact.

NOTES

The first-year courses are tailored to each student’s degree specialization in order to avoid any overlaps in basic curricular materials as much as possible. Those degree programmes wth the most students will be split into different levels, which means a different learning pace for each curriculum and not a different syllabus. In fact, the programme is the same for all curricula.

Each student will be assigned to the course that best suits their level according to a placement test, which the student will take before the courses commence. The list of groups split by curriculum and level will be posted on the notice board of the Morozzo della Rocca campus. The student must stick to the course assigned to ensure consistency of both numbers and levels.

One-year and two-year course students: Students choosing a one-year or two-year course of English will take the same English Language Workshop 2 course for the first year held by Dr. Anna Caldirola of the Primary Education Sciences Course. In their second year, the two-year course students will attend 4 hours of the J1 course held by Dr. Alison Fottrell.

Students that still need to sit their English Language written and/or oral exam must attend the semester recovery course.