ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2021/2022 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Roberto Salvucci | at the end of the lessons |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to acquire the grammatical, lexical and syntactical foundations of the English language through translation exercises and exercises of a grammatical nature.. At the end of the course the student must be able to:
- translate from Italian to English short phrases of common use
- correctly use the main verb tenses in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms
- correctly use prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, partitives
Program
The course mainly covers the study of:
- prepositions
- adverbs
- comparative and suplerlative adjectives
-partitives
- main verb tenses affermative, negative and interrogative
Bridging Courses
None
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Students must achieve:
1. Knowledge and ability to understand elements of English grammar and translation skills.
1.1. Students shall obtain this knowledge through the attendance of lectures and classroom exercises.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: through translation skills from Italian of common use short phrases.
2.1. Skills acquired through the classroom development of the exercises in the textbook.
3. Judgment skills: critical reflection on the ability to translate short sentences from Italian to English.
3.1. This judgement will have to be applied in the classroom comparison with the teacher and colleagues, during the exercises and and in the preparation of the final exam.
4. Communication skills: students are called to interact in the classroom through the performance of textbook exercises.
4.1. Ability that is exercised in classroom with the organization of moments of exercise.
5. Learning ability: students are required to adopt a method of application and individual exercise which is both methodical and continuous.
5.1. Ability to be enhanced by the performance, which can also be repetitive, of the exercises present in the textbook.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
The teaching material made available by the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.ii
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Classroom lectures
- Course books
Murphy R., Pallini L., Essential grammar in Use con soluzioni. Cambridge University Press
- Assessment
Written text consisting in grammatical exercises and translation of short sentences.
Assessments of excellence: the student’s possession of a good knowledge of the English language.
Discrete evaluations: the student’s possession of a decent knowledge of the English language.
Sufficient evaluations: the student’s possession of a sufficient knowledge of the English language.
Negative evaluations: the student’s possession of an insufficient knowledge of the English language.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Individual study
- Attendance
Individual exercises of the grammar text
- Course books
Murphy R., Pallini L., Essential grammar in Use con soluzioni. Cambridge University Press
- Assessment
Written test consisting in grammatical exercises and translation of short sentences
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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