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Program, Readings and Exam Modalities
Classe L-11 II year - EA (A-G)Lingue, Letterature e Culture dell’Europa e delle Americhe
Lingua e linguistica Inglese II
Prof. Liliana Landolfi
The course intends to guide students to reach the B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference via developing their understanding of English in its lexical, grammatical, textual, idiomatic, and pragmatic nuances. Through targeted activities and interactive work in pairs and groups, students will be guided to identify the various facets of the target language.
Authentic materials taken from articles, advertisements, scientific papers, corpora, and so on will be analyzed so as to identify the various linguistic, syntactic, and pragmatic constituents of English and verify their patterns of use, misuse, or abuse. A number of different media (e.g., audio, video, interactive programs) will be looked at in order to compare and analyze the multiplicity of textual and conversational expressions which characterize today’s English.
The use of numerous examples, practice tests, and class exercises, enriched with exposure to movies and documentaries and the exploitation of eduware and websites, will let students experiment with English and consolidate what they have acquired in the first year.
http://docenti2.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=18930&content_id_start=1&ID_Utente=2973
Program available at:
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EXAMS • Ss have to pass a written test and an oral exam. • The written test is propaedeutic to the oral exam. • A mock test can be downloaded from my pagehttp://docenti2.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=18934&content_id_start=1
• The oral exam requires Ss to talk over the topics indicated in the program and discussed in class
• Ss also need to illustrate the tasks collected in their personal portfolios.
Portfolios must contain: 1) classroom recommended activities, 2) task activities (available on the MOUVE platform, password necessary), 3) error analysis of the assigned texts, and 4) comments on personal learning path
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Readings • Biber, Douglas, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, 2002, Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman, (chapters 8-13)
• Brown, G. and Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (chapters 1 e 6). DOWNLOAD
• Halliday, M. and Hasan, R. 1974. Cohesion in English. Harlow. Longman (chapters 1 e 7). DOWNLOAD
• Landolfi, L. 2012. P.Æ.C.E. An Italian-English Corpus based on EFL Students. Napoli. Liguori Editore. (50 texts)
• Landolfi, L. Study Pack disponibile presso la copisteria in Via DUOMO
SUBSTITUTE Cutting, J. 2008. Pragmatics and
Discourse. London. Routledge with
topics taken from the Concise
Encyclopedia of Pragmatics by Jacob L. MeyDOWNLOADprof. Liliana Landolfi 4
To download
Brown, G. and Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (chapters 1 e 6).
•https://abudira.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/discourse-analysis-by-gillian-brown-george-yule.pdf
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To download
Halliday, M. and Hasan, R. 1974. Cohesion in English. Harlow. Longman (chapters 1 e 7).•http://www.pdf3000.com/ebook/title/halliday-mak-hasan.html#
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http://npu.edu.ua/!e-book/book/djvu/A/iif_kgpm_Mey%20J.%20Concise%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Pragmatics.pdf
See next slide to know what to
study
To download
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List of topics taken from the Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics
Topics Encyclopedia Articles Authors and pagesHalliday Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood M. Cummings, p.323-324
The Writing process Writing and Cognition M. Torrance, p.1126-1128
Register: Overview D. Biber, p.847-853
Communication Communicative Principle and Communication I. Kecskés, P.106-109
Communicative Competence T. M. Lillis, p.92-99
Conspicuity B. Nerlich, p.114
Gesture and Communication D. McNeill, p.299-307
Context, Communicative W. Hanks, p.119-132
Oral communication Spoken Discourse: Types G.Pianese, p.1042-1046
Levels of formality in communication Family Speak M. Laforest, p.263-264
Pragmatics Pragmatics: Overview J. L. Mey, p.786-797
Deixis Deixis and Anaphora: Pragmatic Approaches K. Green, p.178-181
Politeness B .Pizziconi, p.706-710
Austin, John L. W .A. de Pater and P. Swiggers, p.27-28
Speech acts Speech Acts Y .Huang, p.1000-1009
Speech Acts, Classification and Definition A .Capone, p.1015-1017
The theory of conversationalimplicatures Grice, Herbert Paul P. P. Chruszczewski, p.318-319
Cooperative Principle K. Lindblom, p.151-158
Conversational 'Maxims' Maxims and Flouting A. K .Greenall, p.569-572prof. Liliana Landolfi 8
Spot the Error Project
ERROR SYMBOLSSYMBOL MEANING
?m meaning not clear^ word missing+ word or phrase is unnecessary
art articlec collocation
cv covert error (ex. False friends)dme double marking error (ex. double negation)
fe fixed expressionsir irrelevant information
L1i L1 influence / interferenceme use of the wrong form of a morphemep punctuation (including capital letters)
prep prepositionreg inappropriate style or registersp spellings/p singular, plurals≠v concordance (agreement: subject + Verb
t tensev vocabulary ( wrong word or usage)
w/o word order
PROCEDURETexts to analyze are assigned to each student during Office Hours.Students have to create a Table with three columns and arrange the analysis as follows:1.Left Column: copy the text, as in the corpus, underline spotted errors2.Central Column: code errors using the appropriate identifying symbol(s)3.Right Column: Type the revised version of the textAfter each text, students will insert personal comments (e.g., what you learned, similarities and/or differences with your own writing style) and other comments
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What to bring …
Written Exam:- Libretto-Monolingual dictionaryOral Exam:-Libretto-Four Study Packs (completed)-Portfolio (printed + on CD-rom)-Spot the error (ready to be handed in + on CD-rom)-Corpus Book
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Practice – Practice - Practice
Encouragement Shoot for the moon and even if you miss it, you'll land among the stars.
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