- Docente: Alex Matthew Kunst
- Credits: 9
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0534)
Learning outcomes
The course is for students enrolled in the second year of the undergraduate degree program and who have already passed the exam for the course of English Language A. The pre-requisites are: a B1 level of language Competence (Council of Europe parameters) and a knowledge of the content in the course book/s of English Language A.
The course explores the notions of the Halladayan model of Functional Grammar introduced in English Language A and applies the language analysis to brief texts.
Course contents
English Language B includes the following activities, all held in English:
a) Lectures held by the Professor of the course (3-4 hours a week, during a period of 8-10 weeks)
b) Tutorial workshops in which students carry out practical exercises based on the contents of the lectures (1-2 hours a week during the 1st and 2nd semester)
c) Practical language skills, classes held by native speakers (4 hours a week during both semesters NB.
Activities a) and c) are inseparable components of the course, and students must pass written exams for both these two activities.
The lectures,held by the professor of the course, explore further the Halladayan model of Functional Grammar introduced in English Language A and applies this model of language analysis to brief texts.
The language skills classes aim at developing all the language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) at a B2 level of competence. Students attend these language skills classes according to their language competence.
Students can find further information regarding these classes, as well as other information regarding the lectures, workshops, and programs, on the English Language Studies Program website (ELSP). See the faculty homepage http://www.facli.unibo.it/ for a link to this site(click on material didattico)
Readings/Bibliography
Students need to bring the following texts to lectures and worokshops:
The course book for lectures: M. Lipson, 2006, Exploring Functional Grammar, 2nd edizione, Clueb, Bologna. Mandatory for the lectures
Exercise Workbook Functional Grammar: M. Lipson e M. Freddi, Practice in Functional Grammar, 2006, CLUEB, Bologna. Mandatory for the lectures and the workshops
Recommended Grammar: A. Downing and P. Locke, A University Course in English Grammar, London, Routledge (reserved in the library of DLLSM); Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners with CD-ROM
For the exercises:
TESTO GUIDA - COURSE BOOKS
Groups A, B, C, D, E, F
Cunningham and Moor, New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate (Student's
Book and Workbook and Students' Audio CD Pack), Longman
Groups G, H, J
Haines and May, IELTS Masterclass (Student's Book), Oxford
University Press
Group X 'Studenti in debito di esame'
Texts and material will be notified during the first lesson.
Students must bring the course book to the lectures, including the
first lesson!
These are already available at Feltrinelli
International.
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Other recommended texts:
1. Collins Cobuild English Grammar
COLLINS
2. Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced G. Yule
O.U.P
3. Advanced Grammar in Use M. Hewings
C.U.P.
4. Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English D. Biber, S.
Conrad & G. Leech LONGMAN
5. Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate/Advanced M. McCarthy &
F. O'Dell C.U.P.
6. Oxford Collocations dictionary
O.U.P
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Dictionaries:
Cambridge International Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary
Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
Students can consult the website of the English Language Studies Program (link on the homepage of the facoltà: www.facli.unibo.it ) for further information or learning materials.
Teaching methods
Students are divided into groups according to their surname (students with surname A – F:Prof. Lipson; students with surname G-O and P-Z : Prof.Kunst). During the lectures, the Hallidayan model of linguistic analysis will be explored and applied to various brief texts. Workshops, open to students attending the lectures, will be held during both semesters in which students will have the occasion to review and carry out exercises covering the material introduced in the lectures. Notices regarding these lectures and workshops will be posted on the bulletin board at the DLLSM, 2nd floor, wing B, and on the ELSP pages. Consult the individual professor's site on the faculty site for notices as well.
During the language skills classes, students will practice all language skills reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Assessment methods
The English Language B exam is divided into three parts, for all students, for those who attend and for those who do not attend.
1. a written test based on the content of the lectures held by the professor and the content of the course book for the current academic year. See the website ELSP, Attività Didattica, Lingua Inglese B, “Indicazioni per l'esame scritto di FG”. Students who pass this written exam will NOT take it again;
2. a written language exam, level B2. See the website ELSP, Attività Didattica, Esercitazioni, “Facsimile written exam”. A photocopy of the current langauge exam typology is availabe at a copy shop in the vicinity. For information on B2 target level see “Competenze Linguistiche” under Attività Didattica on the ELSP website. Students who pass this written exam will NOT take it again;
3. a speaking ability test (SAT). A facsimile of the SAT is also available aon the ELSP website, on the Esercitazioni page, under Attività Didattica. Students can take the SAT only after having passed the two written tests. Students who choose English as their third language do not take the SAT. They take only the two written tests. After the SAT, students enrol for an ‘oral' in which the final mark for the course can be registered.
The two written exams can be taken in separate sessions and their score is valid for 6 sessions. Results of the written exams are published on the Faculty site as well as posted on the bulletin board on the 2nd floor, wing B, Via Cartoleria 5.
Students may NOT register their final mark unless they have already registered their 2 Literature modules from the previous year.
Teaching tools
For the lectures: Overhead projector transparencies, pc power point presentations. For the practical language skills classes: transparencies, tape recorder. Students must bring their assigned book for the language skill classes.
For the workshops: students must bring their textbook Exploring Functional Grammar (Lipson, Clueb, 2007 and exercise book Practice in Functional Grammar, Lipson and Freddi, Clueb, 2007). Books are available at Feltrinelli International Bookshop. Supplementary material will be provided by the Tutor.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Alex Matthew Kunst