- Docente: Samuel Porter Whitsitt
- Credits: 9
- Language: English
- Moduli: Samuel Porter Whitsitt (Modulo 1) Janette Louise Mathias (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
The student will be capable of understanding and producing a wide
range of written and oral texts in English, and will be able to
express his or her self with relative ease and spontaneity. The
student will be capable of recognizing problems and will be capable
of using the strategies of linguistic mediation to solve them. The
student will be able to recognize and understand what constitutes
in given situations correct linguistic and behavioral activity.
Course contents
The course has four dimensions, each taught by a different
teacher/s:
- Professors Michela Giorgio-Marano and Janette Mathias focus on liaison interpreting, specificially business and community interpreting. As such, students spend one class period interacting in role-plays to develop oral communication skills. Further class work is done on improving memory, rephrasing and comprehension.
- Prof. Diana Roberts works in the language labs, and focuses on listening comprehension and transcription, as well as note-taking, and reformulating various text types both orally and in writing.
- Prof. Fiachra Stockman focuses on language and culture with
particular attention given to Ireland, and the oral aspects of
Irish English.
- Prof. Sam Whitsitt focuses on language and culture with
particular attention given to American English.
Readings/Bibliography
Each teacher selects his or her texts for the course. Students can
contact individual teachers before classes begin, or wait for the
first day of class.
Teaching methods
Mathias / Giorgio-Marano: students participate in simulated
mediation sessions; students carry out task of riformulation,
memorization and comprehension during frontal lectures.
Roberts: Language Lab; analysis of written and oral texts.
Stockman: Oral presentations; group discussions.
Whitsitt: Lectures; American writing -- curriculum vitae and cover
letter; analysis of written texts.
Assessment methods
This will be explained during the first lesson.
Teaching tools
Language Lab; video; film; overhead; group work.
Links to further information
http://www.ssit.unibo.it/SSLMiT/Avvisi/2010/07/mozione_cdf.htm
Office hours
See the website of Samuel Porter Whitsitt
See the website of Janette Louise Mathias