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English Language 3 (Professional Communication and Language) - Year 3 Curriculum:
Language Expert for Business
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Group A-K and L-Z: Prof. Costanza Cucchi
English Language Classes (Year 3, First-level Degree)
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Dr. Lucia Arnò; Dr. Laura Belloni; Dr. Nara Carlini; Dr. Michael Cruickshank; Dr.
Michael Cullity; Dr. Laura Ferrario; Dr. Stephen Liti Mutunga; Dr. Caterina Pavesi; Dr.
Jane Pollard; Dr. Paul Prostitis; Dr. Stefania Riglione; Dr. James Rock; Dr. Stephen
Thorne
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English Language 3 (Professional Communication and Language) - Year 3
Curriculum: Language Expert for Business
GROUP A-K AND L-Z: PROF. COSTANZA CUCCHI
COURSE AIMS
The course sets out to develop the skills needed by the student to analyse spoken
and written texts in English, with a special focus on professional communication
and on promoting awareness of the relationship between language and culture. The
course will introduce the tools to analyse spoken and written discourses and apply
them to different genres of texts, for example: business meetings, negotiations,
newspaper articles, advertisements, websites and promotional letters.
COURSE CONTENT
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Textuality.
Register and genre.
Language and culture.
Features of spoken discourse.
Conversation analysis.
Pragmatics.
READING LIST
C. CUCCHI-M. PEDROLA, Insights into English Discourse, EDUCatt, Milan, 2010.
C. CUCCHI-A. MURPHY, Spoken and Written Communication at Work, EDUCatt, Milan, 2011.
C. CUCCHI-A. MURPHY, Perspectives on Discourse, EDUCatt, Milan, 2009.
A. KOESTER, Investigating Workplace Discourse, Routledge, London, 2006.
Suggested reading:
P. DREW-J. HERITAGE (eds.), Talk at Work, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
A. KOESTER, Workplace Discourse, Continuum, London, 2010.
Additional information on the reading list will be communicated via Blackboard. Students
are requested to read notes published on Blackboard.
TEACHING METHOD
Classroom lectures and practical classes.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Written exam to qualify for the oral exam.
NOTES
The language of instruction is English. The student should register with the Blackboard
version of this course.
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.
English Language Classes (Year 3, First-level Degree)
DR. LUCIA ARNÒ; DR. LAURA BELLONI; DR. NARA CARLINI; DR. MICHAEL CRUICKSHANK;
DR. MICHAEL CULLITY; DR. LAURA FERRARIO; DR. STEPHEN LITI MUTUNGA; DR. CATERINA
PAVESI; DR. JANE POLLARD; DR. PAUL PROSTITIS; DR. STEFANIA RIGLIONE; DR. JAMES ROCK;
DR. STEPHEN THORNE
COURSE AIMS
Overall, the course aims to equip the student with in-depth knowledge of the
specific linguistics and terminology of their chosen field of study and develop their
written and oral abilities to use English in their selected professions. Special
emphasis will be placed on expanding their lexical repertoire, including the use of
idiomatic phrases. At the end of the course, the student is expected to demonstrate
that they have learned the implicit and explicit meanings of the texts handed out in
class and the key points to emerge from the authentic audio texts that discuss
difficult subjects, even when these are not specifically indicated. Translation is an
integral part of the course, both from English to Italian and vice versa.
COURSE CONTENT
The students will be given a vast range of materials carefully selected from the
internet, newspapers and magazines in line with their chosen field of study. The
material will be provided in various formats, including written documents, graphic
and visual information and audio texts. The course incorporates a translation
module and will enable the student to translate authentic texts related to their
chosen field of study.
READING LIST
Students are invited to obtain a monolingual and a bilingual dictionary to refer to throughout
their entire study programme.
Recommended dictionaries:
Bilingual
Il Sansoni Italiano-Inglese, Sansoni, 2010 (5th ed.)
Grande Dizionario Hoepli Inglese con CD-ROM, Hoepli, 2007.
Il Dizionario Inglese Italiano Ragazzini, Zanichelli, 2012.
Monolingual
Advanced Dictionary, Collins Cobuild, 2008 (6th ed.).
Advanced Learners Dictionary, Cambridge, 2010 (3rd ed.).
Advanced Learners Dictionary, Oxford, 2010 (8th ed.).
English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Macmillan, 2007 (2nd ed.).
Compulsory text:
Specific materials will be given for each curriculum.
Additional recommended materials:
C. TAYLOR, Language to Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
MACMILLAN, Collocations Dictionary, Michael Rundell ed., London, 2010.
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OXFORD, Oxford Collocations Dictonary, C. McIntosh ed., Oxford and New York, 2009.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures.
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Written and oral exams.
The written exam is in two parts: the first part has a duration of 1 hour 40 minutes and
consists of a translation from Italian into English and a translation from English into Italian.
Students are allowed to use a monolingual dictionary (Italian or English); the second part, of
1 hour 15 minutes duration, will test the student’s comprehension and drawing up of a
written text, knowledge of vocabulary through a quiz and their listening comprehension
ability. No dictionaries are allowed for this part of the exam.
The oral exam will require the student to discuss a selection of the literature indicated
during the academic year and test their oral comprehension and production and interactive
skills. The student is expected to demonstrate phonetic-phonologic correctness,
communicative naturalness, grammaticaql accuracy, and an appropriate use of the lexicon,
as well as a good knowledge of the texts read in the course and the ability to discuss related
topics.
NOTES
To ensure consistency in numbers and level, the students are kindly requested to attend
the course they have been specifically assigned to.
Third-year students who still need to pass the English Language 2 written and/or oral
exam must necessarily attend the semester recovery course scheduled for Semester One and
repeated in Semester Two.
Further information can be found on the lecturer's webpage at
http://docenti.unicatt.it/web/searchByName.do?language=ENG, or on the Faculty notice
board.