Università Roma Tre

INGLESE Lexis and collocations. Use of bilingual dictionaries and of collocations dictionaries in productive activities
The course will focus on the role of collocations and on their use; it will also analyse the (macro and micro) structure of the set dictionaries and on their potential and practical use in written production activities
Teaching/learning activities include: lectures; language improvement classes; dictionary evaluation and use.
Students must pass their language tests before doing the exam. They will be awarded 12 ects only on completing all activities and after passing their exam.
STUDENTS MUST SIGN UP ONLINE (GOMP) FOR ALL EXAMS, INCLUDING LANGUAGE TESTS .

For EMLex and Erasmus Mundus students:
One Bilingual dictionary to be chosen
One collocations dictionary among the following: (in alphabetical order)
-THE BBI COMBINATORY DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH, 2009
-LONGMAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS, 2013
-MACMILLAN COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2010
-OXFORD COLLOCATIONS DICTIONARY, 2009

Other dictionaries can be consulted in the library

-Introductions to Dictionaries used
-Sinclair J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, chapter 8, Collocation, OUP, pp.109-121.
-Moon R. (2005) Dictionaries and Collocations, in Granger S., F. Meunier (eds.) Phraseology, Benjamin, pp. 313-336

Information about further reading material will be made available at the beginning of the course and posted on the Department site

The course is organized into two parallel learning paths: one deals with notions of language policies, the role of language and cultural mediation in international settings, with reference to migration contexts and integration activities, the second path is linked to current variations of English, it is focussed upon the analysis of specialized written and spoken texts used in international and plurilingual settings in standard or lingua franca English. Forms, functions, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic aspects of specialized discourse (journalistic, tourist, legal, sociopolitical , institutional) in their various genres and registers will be analyzed.
Theoretical and practical implementations of mediation and translation will be carried out via dictionaries and corpora use.
Lessons will alternate with workshops aimed at analysis, creation, translation of documents and the realization of micro projects related to the LM 38 profiles.
Language activities will aim at developing comprehension and production of texts at level B2+, partly towards C1

Selected readings from:
- Jeremy Munday, latest edition. Introducing Translation Studies. Routledge. Selection only of a few chapters
- Jenkins, J. 2015. Global Englishes. A resource Book for Students, 3rd edition, Routledge. Selection only of a few chapters
- European Union documents.
1 bilingual dictionary and 1 collocation dictionary among the following:
Bilingual dictionaries in alphabetical order
- GRANDE DIZIONARIO HAZON DI INGLESE, GARZANTI latest edition
- IL RAGAZZINI DIZIONARIO INGLESE – ITALIANO ITALIANO – INGLESE, ZANICHELLI, 2015
- OXFORD - PARAVIA DIZIONARIO INGLESE - ITALIANO E ITALIANO INGLESE, PARAVIA latest edition
- PICCHI FERDINANDO, GRANDE DIZIONARIO HOEPLI INGLESE CON CD-ROM, HOEPLI latest edition
Information about further reading material will be made available at the beginning of the course and posted on the Department site