Università Roma Tre

PROGRAMMA

UNIT 1: Knowledge
Academic focus: understanding and presenting information. Identifying and using general, academic, and technical vocabulary - Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary:. Using compound sentences with coordinators.

UNIT 2: Organization
Academic focus: perspective and stance. understanding stance: adverbials and useful phrases, using contextualising language; Cohesion. – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: identifying common academic nouns; pronouns and determiners marking cohesion.

UNIT 3: Motivation
Academic focus: definition and explanation; signposting language: giving an overview and sequencing; Introducing cohesive information, definitions, explanations and examples. - Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: understanding and using classifying and evaluative adjectives; the structure of definitions: Noun+prepositional phrase/noun+relative clauses.

UNIT 4: Nature
Academic focus: Description. Using adverbials to introduce supporting information – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: Identifying adverbials meaning; using adverbials for cohesion. Noun phrases: adjective+noun+adverb+adjective+noun.

UNIT 5: Power
Academic focus: Reporting and Summarising. Reporting verbs: referring to points in a presentation.– Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: affixes: using suffixes to recognise word families; building word families using affixes. Noun phrases: summarising ideas using noun phrase patterns/using key nouns and determiners/ paraphrasing longer structures.

UNIT 6: Growth
Academic focus: Using sources; referring to sources/using reporting verbs and verb structures – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: identifying form in reported structures; Using reporting structures

UNIT 7: Networks
Academic focus: Contextualising. Identify essay focus. Explaining and rephrasing. – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: essay verbs; noun phrases: expressing key information using complex noun phrases.

UNIT 8: Innovation
Academic focus: Referencing – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: Cohesive language; selecting and using linking expressions in texts.

UNIT 9: Consumption
Academic focus: Comparison and contrast.– Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: identifying comparing and contrasting structures.

UNIT 10: Crime
Academic focus: argument and evidence; evaluative language: adjectives. Maximizing and minimising language: modal verbs, adverbs and verbs – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: noticing and interpreting arguments.

UNIT 11: Energy
Academic focus: identifying problem, solution and evaluation in texts. – case study and process – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: the language of problems and solutions.

UNIT 12: Progress
Academic focus: Cause and effect. – Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. Vocabulary: Identify cause and effect language in a text; expressing caution. Identify stance in cause and effect relationships.


CONOSCENZA E CAPACITÀ DI COMPRENSIONE: Al termine del corso lo studente dovrà essere in grado di comprendere le caratteristiche di base dell’Inglese accademico, sapendone individuare le caratteristiche discorsive e i generi fondamentali.

CAPACITÀ DI APPLICARE CONOSCENZA E COMPRENSIONE:
Lo studente dovrà essere in grado di analizzare il discorso accademico, le peculiarità linguistiche in relazione al genere testuale e alla comunità discorsiva di riferimento, applicandone adeguatamente i principali concetti e definizioni. Lo studente sarà anche in grado di interagire criticamente nelle attività di produzione orale di diverso registro formale, esaminando il contenuto e la resa comunicativa in varie situazioni accademiche.

MODALITÀ DI VERIFICA DELL’ APPRENDIMENTO

ESAME SCRITTO
TEST COMPUTERIZZATO

₋ Linguaggio accademico (Grammatica/Lessico)
₋ Lettura
₋ Scrittura

L’esame scritto dura 40 minuti e prevede 3 sezioni per un totale di 50 punti. Le sezioni includeranno diverse tipologie di esercizi sul modello degli esercizi inclusi nel testo in adozione.

Non è consentito l’utilizzo del dizionario.

MODALITA’ DI EROGAZIONE
Il corso prevede sia lezioni frontali che esercitazioni in classe.

TESTI DI RIFERIMENTO

Libro di Testo Adottato:

Edward de Chazal & Louis Rogers: Oxford EAP – A Course in English for Academic Purposes – B1+, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 9780194002011

TESTI DI RIFERIMENTO

Libro di Testo Adottato:

Edward de Chazal & Louis Rogers: Oxford EAP – A Course in English for Academic Purposes – B1+, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 9780194002011