Università Roma Tre

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;
· understand 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.

Di Ferrante, Laura, Pizziconi, Sergio, e Attardo Salvatore (2018). Discovering English Grammar and Variation. Pacini Editore.

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

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