Università Roma Tre

The reading of different types of narrative texts will allow the student to enrich his/her lexical and grammar-syntactical competences through constant exercise (pre-reading and post-reading activities, reading and listening comprehension), stimulating the students’ reflection and discussion on general-interest themes and providing useful topics for class-work both at written and oral level.
In particular, the course will focus on bullying attitudes, through the analysis of some of the first text dealing with the phenomenon in the UK.
The constant use of English in the classroom will be encouraged; students will be fostered to noticing the differences and similarities between L2 and L1 also by providing and analysing different translations of the texts proposed. Pre-reading and post-reading activities, as well as reading and listening comprehension exercises will be proposed.

The exam test is written; it consists in a Reading Comprehension, to ascertain the knowledge of the texts, as well as grammar, syntax and lexical-idiomatic competencies.
The exam will include the test concerning the Laboratory of English Language (see specific Programme) so granting 9 CFU in total.
* N.B.: Due to the particular modality of the exam and to the learning needs in terms of time, the student will be allowed to undertake the test only once per exam session.
* N.B.: All changing concerning the program or the lessons, or any other news will be posted on the teacher’s page on the Department website.
For more information or further details, or to ask for an appointment, please contact the teacher via e-mail [raffaella.leproni@uniroma3.it].

** Reading texts (mandatory, all available on the platform, at the course page):
- Maria Edgeworth, Harrington, (ed. by Susan Manly) Broadview editions, Canada, 2004 (or online http://www.online-literature.com/maria-edgeworth/harrington/) [traduzione italiana di riferimento a cura di Carla De Petris e Raffaella Leproni, Belforte ediitore, Livorno 2015]
- Maria Edgeworth, Essay on Irish Bulls (any edition; online https://archive.org/details/essayonirishbul00edgegoog )
- Marco Catarci, Massimiliano Fiorucci (eds.), Intercultural Education in the European Context. Theories, Experiences, Challenges, Ashgate, UK/USA, 2015
** Grammar texts (optional):
- Michael VINCE, Lelio PALLINI, English Grammar Practice for Italian Students, Macmillan & Heinemann OR . M. Foley, D. Hall, MyGrammarLab (Intermediate B1/B2), Pearson Education Limited, 2012

** Dictionaries (optional):
- Bilingual dictionaries: Hazon Garzanti, New Edition, OR F.Picchi, Grande dizionario Inglese-Italiano/Italiano-Inglese, Hoepli.
- Monolingual dictionaries: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners OR Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary, OR Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

* Aims of the course: Students will acquire an awareness of the use of English throughout the world, the spread of the language as a Lingua Franca and the idea of the varieties of Englishes spoken in different countries.
* Description of the course: - This course is meant to provide a cultural analysis of the texts studied. A first text (Andrea Binelli’s) deals with materials concerning a reflection on English and Englishes and a study of the language itself. The texts provided on the web focus on representative historical and meta linguistic analysis on the development and importance of a language for a consequent cultural and social development of a country. Students will have to deal with these texts in order to read, understand and interpret them from a linguistic, sociological, historical and cultural point of view.
- Lessons will be held in English and in Italian. Activities such as cloze tests, reading / comprehension and listening / comprehension exercises will be part of the course. Authentic materials will be used in order to provide different models of the use of English.
- The books indicated in bibliography provide a fundamental reference for a general revision of English morphological and syntactic structures. The study of a grammar book corresponding to B1 level is highly recommended.
- Exam: the exam consists in a reading comprehension structured on the texts available on line and on a short cloze test on the book by Andrea Binelli plus an open question on a general issue discussed in the lessons.
This part of the exam is an integration to the exam of English Language 6 cfu held by professor Leproni Raffella (see specific Programme) so granting 9 CFU in total. The two parts are to be taken together.

** Testi di approfondimento culturale:
- Testi da George Orwell, T.B. Macaulay, S. Rushdie, R. Williams, W. Scott.
-Andrea Binelli, Of Englishes and Styles—Rhetorical and Semiotic Analyses of Advertisements, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2012 (SOLO IL PRIMO CAPITOLO).
** Testi di base: Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use, CUP, Cambridge (3rd ed.) 2007.
** Testi di consultazione: - Dizionari bilingue consigliati: Hazon Garzanti , Nuova Edizione, oppure F.Picchi, Grande dizionario Inglese-Italiano/Italiano-Inglese, Hoepli. - Dizionari monolingue consigliati: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners oppure Oxford Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary, oppure Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary.