Program Readings and Exam Modalities Classe L11 II

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

Program available at: http: //docenti 2. unior. it/index 2. php? content_id=18930&content_id_start=1&ID_Utente=2973 (verified 10 May, 2017) The course intends to guide students to reach the B 2+ 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. prof. Liliana Landolfi 2

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 page 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: • • ü 1) classroom recommended activities, ü 2) task activities (available on the MOUVE platform, password necessary), ü 3) error analysis of the assigned texts, and ü 4) comments on personal learning path prof. Liliana Landolfi 3

• 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 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 prof. Liliana Landolfi Readings SUBSTITUTE Cutting, J. 2008. Pragmatics and Discourse. London. Routledge with topics taken from the Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics by Jacob L. Mey DOWNLOAD 4

To download Brown, G. and Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University Press (chapters 1 e 6). • https: //abudira. files. wordpress. com/2012/02/ discourse-analysis-by-gillian-brown-georgeyule. pdf (verified 10 May, 2017) prof. Liliana Landolfi 5

To download Halliday, M. and Hasan, R. 1974. Cohesion in English. Harlow. Longman (chapters 1 e 7). prof. Liliana Landolfi 6

To download Da inserire See next slide to know what to study prof. Liliana Landolfi 7

List of topics taken from the Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics Topics Encyclopedia Articles Authors and pages 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 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. Mc. Neill, p. 299 -307 Context, Communicative W. Hanks, p. 119 -132 Spoken Discourse: Types G. Pianese, p. 1042 -1046 Communication Oral communication Levels of formality in communication Family Speak M. Laforest, p. 263 -264 Pragmatics: Overview J. L. Mey, p. 786 -797 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 Y. Huang, p. 1000 -1009 Speech Acts, Classification and Definition A. Capone, p. 1015 -1017 Grice, Herbert Paul P. P. Chruszczewski, p. 318 -319 Cooperative Principle K. Lindblom, p. 151 -158 Maxims and Flouting prof. Liliana Landolfi A. K. Greenall, p. 569 -572 Speech acts The theory of conversational implicatures Conversational 'Maxims' 8

Spot the Error Project PROCEDURE Texts 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 errors 2. Central Column: code errors using the appropriate identifying symbol(s) 3. Right Column: Type the revised version of the text After each text, students will insert personal comments (e. g. , what you learned, similarities and/or differences with your own writing style) and other comments ERROR SYMBOLS SYMBOL MEANING ? m meaning not clear ^ word missing + word or phrase is unnecessary article c collocation cv covert error (ex. False friends) dme double marking error (ex. double negation) fe fixed expressions ir irrelevant information L 1 i L 1 influence / interference me use of the wrong form of a morpheme p punctuation (including capital letters) preposition reg inappropriate style or register sp spelling s/p singular, plural s≠v concordance (agreement: subject + Verb t tense v vocabulary ( wrong word or usage) prof. Liliana Landolfi w/o word order 9

What to bring … Written Exam: - Libretto - Monolingual dictionary Oral Exam: - Libretto - Four Study Packs (completed) - Portfolio (printed + on CD-rom) - Spot the error (ready to be handed in + on CD-rom) - Corpus Book prof. Liliana Landolfi 10

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Encouragement Shoot for the moon and even if you miss it, you'll land among the stars. prof. Liliana Landolfi 12