Ateneo - UPO

See ‘Programma esteso’

Compulsory texts (all the students)

- M. Vince, Language Practice New Edition C1 Student's Book Pack with Macmillan Practice Online and Answer Key. ISBN 9780230463813. (2nd-3rd year BA)
- Bailey, Stephen, 2018 (5th ed.), Academic Writing. A Handbook for International Students, Routledge. (2nd-3rd year BA)

Further materials on paragraph writing, reading comprehension, and academic English will be provided to students during the year, and uploaded to the webpage DIR.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS (the same texts listed above for ‘all the students’).

English Language Practical Classes 2 aim to develop lexical, grammatical, morpho-syntactic, and discursive skills (both encoding and decoding) of contemporary English, in relation to everyday topics and events.

The general contents and specific topics, language skills and activities, the end-of-course examination, as well as the assessment criteria applied, refer to an upper-intermediate B2-B2+ level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference).

English Language 1 (English Language Practical Classes 1).

Practical activities for decoding (reading comprehension), encoding (paragraph writing), grammatical skills (exercises), oral interaction focussed on general and/or specific topics of everyday communication (ex. current events).
Self-study and activities previously introduced during practical classes.

ALL THE STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THE COMPULSORY TEXTS (see above).

Practical Classes will start in September 2021 and will end in June 2022.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRACTICAL CLASSES II YEAR
Written exam (2 hrs)

Your practical classes final mark is the average of all your grades: different sections of the written exam.

2nd-year students have to pass the reading comprehension/lexis, sentence translation, and paragraph writing (min. 18/30 for all of them).

With reference to the 'Intended learning objectives' (see below), the following grades correspond to different skills: 18-22/30-sufficient, 23-25/30-satisfying, 26-28/30 good, 29-30 lode-very good.

Oral interaction skills, language competence, and fluency (discourse structure, pronunciation, lexis, morphosyntax, and linguistic appropriateness) will be assessed by professor E. Lonati on the occasion of the English Linguistics A exam.

SYLLABUS VALID UNTIL: Winter Exam Session 2024 (January-February)

WRITTEN EXAM:
1. Reading Comprehension of a 500-word text, followed by lexical/word meaning exercises: 30’ minutes.
Reading comprehension activities aim to develop the student’s skills in reading-understanding various topics from different sources (newspapers, magazines, brochures, etc.), they also help to improve the lexis of contemporary English. Exercises include collocations and phrases, meaning of words, meaning in context, etc.

2. Sentence translation activities:Italian-English: 30’ minutes.

3. Paragraph writing: 60’ minutes.
Starting from an outline on well-known topics, students will write a 250/300-word paragraph.
Paragraph writing aims to assess grammar, lexis, spelling, and punctuation in a well-organised text.

Oral interaction skills, language competence, and fluency (discourse structure, pronunciation, lexis, morphosyntax, and linguistic appropriateness) will be assessed by professor E. Lonati on the occasion of the English Linguistics A exam.

English Language Practical Classes 2 are based on the textbooks listed above, and on further materials analysed during the year (see DIR).

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Students will be able to read and understand texts of medium complexity in contemporary English, of general contents and/or on current issues.

APPLIED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
They will also translate sentences and relate the fundamental structures of English and Italian. They will also be able to write short/medium length paragraphs, and to have a conversation on general/current issues.

Linguistic knowledge and language understanding will be used at a practical level, and applied to the many disciplinary research and professional contexts.