Lingua Inglese 1 (scritto) 2011/2012

Dott.ssa Christine Eade, Edificio A – Piano I, stanza P3; e-mail: ceade@libero.it

Dott.ssa Dympna Hayes, Edificio A – Piano I,  Stanza P6; e-mail: hayesdympna71@gmail.com 

Language Course :

Essentially the aim of this course is to direct students to a global learning environment where communication crosses national borders and continents. The course covers topics of international interest and seeks to enable the student to be better informed about the world of global English.  It considers the learning of a language to go beyond a narrow form of training and to be situated in a broader educational and cultural context. Hence, the student is expected not only to learn English, but through English to learn about the modern world. The pedagogical approach to the course is both communicative and text/task based. This approach to the topics allows the students to develop their powers of linguistic expression, their capacity to analyse and their critical thinking skills. The course has a topic-based multi-strand syllabus which includes comprehensive work on grammar and vocabulary through contextualisation and an inductive grammatical analysis of the texts.

As part of the exam, students are asked to complete a series of assignments outside of class using the Internet. These assignments will be collected in a Project Portfolio which you will discuss as part of the exam.  Students who so choose may discuss their work during class time in the lettorato.  They will be given an evaluation which will then be averaged in with their final oral evaluation.  This is highly recommended as it gives students an opportunity to speak in public and lightens the exam load at the end of the year.  Students who do not present their work in class will be asked to do so during the oral exam with Prof Petroni.

The assignments will be collected in your Portfolio. Each student must present an individual portfolio with their own individual work. 

- Course Materials:

Cotton, D., Falvey, D., Kent, S., Language Leader, Intermediate, Pearson Longman Publishers, Coursebook and workbook with key.

- Recommended Materials:

OxfordAdvanced Learner Dictionary with CD.