Università Roma Tre

Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities.
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010. Introduction: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/how-dictionaries-are-written/macmillan-collocations-dictionary/
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121 and Glossary
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

1A and 1B (1st and 2nd language) courses are unified since the required entry level (B2+) is the same. 12 credits ETS
Development of: a) ability to communicate ideas, attitudes, intentions and to solve foreign language-specific communicative problems especially in written texts; b) knowledge and understanding of theoretical and methodological translation issues; c) analytic skills in a range of texts produced in selected domains.
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; use of language laboratory; text analysis and translation workshop.

Module: The course will focus on the theoretical issues of translation of specialized and audiovisual texts, the use of dictionaries and corpora and with reference to current approaches and the use of different tools
Language classes for the reinforcement of language competence: writing and speaking activities at B2+ level.

The manual and the accompanying materials - mostly reference texts from the European Union and the Council of Europe - will be indicated before the beginning of the course.
One bilingual dictionary and one collocations dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries (in alphabetical order)
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI ultima edizione
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI edizione 2014 oppure 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA ultima edizione
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI ultima edizione