Università Roma Tre

*Further details about the course, materials and slides are (and will be) available on Google Drive.

The lessons aim at developing and refining students’ competences in English. Methods, techniques, and contents of the course will be shaped on the basis of the background knowledge and learning modalities and paces of the students.
In particular, the students will be trained to:

• learn and recognize most of the English grammar structures;
• learn some phonological characteristics of varieties of English spoken in Great Britain and the United States;
• create journalistic and academic texts in English;
• recognize linguistic varieties through different texts.

The language of journalism and some aspects related to British and American journalism will be given specific relevance.
The goal of the course is for the students to develop all the competences in the foreign language (speaking, writing, listening, reading, communicative) through the active participation in the class activities and the use of authentic texts (newspaper and magazine articles, news reports, newscasts, news releases) and of the textbook. In this course, English language will be the tool to learning and reasoning both on aspects of language and on those connected with journalism as a profession. In class, students will be engaged in a number of individual and group activities which include the work on a personal learning portfolio.
Classes will be primarily taught in English. Participation and attendance are strongly recommended.
We will be using an eclectic approach: lesson plans will be characterized by the use of multimedia materials along with the textbook. The function of these tools is that of interacting with the students involving them in activities that stimulate them cognitively and that make it possible for their different intelligences, personalities, and motivation to find the most suitable learning way(s).

Learning a language is, for a huge part, practicing it, so the students are expected to engage in discussions, to ask and answer questions, to detect errors with one another, to try to communicate in English, challenging the fear of being wrong or making errors.


***** IMPORTANT ***** To be allowed to take this exam, you need to get the CLA certification at the B1 level.******


EXAM
The final exam includes a written test a. The written test will include a test of reading comprehension on a journalistic text and exercises on linguistic structures (especially grammar and vocabulary). Students will be asked to discuss the topics covered in the textbook.

1) Pizziconi, Sergio e Di Ferrante, Laura (2016). Fixin' to learn English, ya'll. Second Edition* Copynet

[Il testo è disponibile presso Copynet (http://www.copynetshop.it/) Via degli Irpini 10/12 00185 Roma (Quartiere San Lorenzo) Tel. 0644360406]

2) Grammar for news http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/skills/writing-the-english-language/article/art20150914135359954

3) Lakoff, G., & Brugman, C. (1987). The semantics of aux-inversion and anaphora constraints. In Linguistic Society of America meeting, San Francisco, CA. **

*Coloro che hanno la prima edizione potranno scaricare l'integrazione dalla cartella di drive.

**Il testo è disponibile nella cartella di Google Drive