English
- Morphosyntactic and lexical features of business communication
- sector- based language communication
- Understanding the Foundations of Business Communication
- Applying the Three-Step Writing Process:
a. planning business messages
b. writing business messages
c. completing business messages
- Different types of resumes
- written translations 8200-300 words) english-italian/italian-english
- Preparing Written Reports and Oral Presentations
- designing messages for eletronic media
Excellence in Business Communication (Tenth Edition), John Thill,Courtland Bovee,
Pearson Education, 2013.
-Quadri SUA-CdS: A4.a; A2.a
- Acquire the necessary skills in order to read, understand and comment complex texts in English
- Acquire specific terminology to communicate in an economic/financial sector
- Acquire the necessary compositional skills in order to structure and develop ideas and business proposals according to the traditional rules of the written Business Report: Introduction, Body, Conclusion
- Acquire the necessary technical and linguistic skills to sustain and to conduct a job inteview
no pre-requisites
- lectures
- seminars
- PowerPoint Presentations
- workshops
At the end of the course, the student should:
- write short compositions (about 300-400 words) and be able to summarize them orally
- possess a technical vocabulary of idiomatic expressions, or business expressions, principally in use in commercial sector
- be fluent enough in his English in order to carry on various types of conversation either on professional topics or leisure activities
- have a sufficient linguistic competence to travel abroad without any major problems
- be able to talk about himself using a varied and extensive vocabulary
- be able to illustrate and synthesize the chief points of a work plan or the main thesis of a scholarly/journalistic article
The general objectives of the course is thus to give the student the knowledge and skills necessary to:
- Acquire the technical vocabulary in order to communicate effectively in a managerial environment
- Read/compose short texts characterized by idiomatic expressions of that sector
- Carry on technical and/or general conversations with native speakers
- Articulate complex ideas on specific topics
Thus, the course aims to give the student the following skills in terms of particular objectives:
COMPREHENSION AND SKILLS
- to read short technical texts
- to read short narrative texst
- to read business/personal correspondence in English
- to translate in Italian short technical texts written in English
- to translate in Italian short narrative texts written in English
- to translate in Italian business/personal correspondence in English
- to carry on English conversations concerning managerial topics and arguments
- Sostenere conversazioni in lingua inglese su argomenti inerenti allo svago: viaggi all’estero, hobbies, etc.
- to carry on English conversations concerning leisure activities: foreign travel, hobbies etc.
AUTONOMOUS EVALUATION:
- the student is able to identify the chief points of a technical/narrative text written in English (e.g. buying and selling of services/general thesis in favor of the legalization of marijuana) and can express his/her own opinions concerning the argument
In-class evaluation for students who attend the course; final written multiple choice/true or false quiz for those students who do not attend the course
In-class evaluation for students who attend the course; final written
multiple choice/true or false quiz for those students who do not attend
the course.
