ENGLISH LANGUAGE III

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0003

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Disciplinary Sector:

English Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ETTORRE Emanuela

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

105

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have a deep knowledge of the English Language at a B2 Level, according to the CEFR (European Framework of Reference for Languages) in order to understand the concepts exposed during the course.
In order to undertake the exam, students must have passed English Language II (2nd year).

Objectives

In line with the educational objectives of the CdS, the course aims to provide a knowledge of the most complex grammatical, morphosyntactic and lexical structures of the English language in order to reach an advanced level of competence. The course will aim to consolidate the skills of comprehension, production and oral interaction, as well as to provide the appropriate tools for the critical analysis of literary and non literary texts in English, with particular attention to the discourses about ecology.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students must demonstrate that they have reached level B2+ of the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), that they have acquired the necessary linguistic and communicative skills, that they are able to understand and analyse texts in English, that they are able to apply their linguistic and methodological knowledge in the field of critical discourse analysis.

Contents

This course on Ecolinguistics provides a theoretical framework and practical tools for revealing how the dominant discourses of our unsustainable industrial civilization promote ecologically destructive behaviour. Students will analyse a wide range of texts from advertisements, lifestyle magazines and economics textbooks to literary texts. In each case, the question is whether the stories that underlie texts allow us to identify consumerist and destructive discourses, or encourage us to care about people and the ecosystems that life depends on. Part of the module will therefore consider the theoretical and practical issues in order to conduct what J. R. Martin defines as Positive Discourse Analysis within ecolinguistics
The course is based on Arran Stibbe’s Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, Routledge, 2021) in order to reveal the stories that support unequal and unsustainable societies and search for inspirational forms of language that can help rebuild a more ecological world. It describes eight types of ‘stories we live by’: ideologies, framings, metaphors, evaluations, identities, convictions, erasure and salience. These stories are cognitive, as they belong to people’s mind, but they also manifest themselves in distinctive patterns of language. The aim of ecolinguistics is to analyse these patterns, reveal the ‘stories we live by’, and open them to a critical investigation.

Recommended Bibliography

A. Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, 2nd ed., London and New York, 2021;

M. Bloor and T. Bloor, The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, London and New York, 2007, chapp. 1, 2, 5;
Oxford Collocations Dictionary, Oxford University Press;

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 2 volls, Oxford University Press;
Further material related to the textual analysis will be provided during the course.

Teaching Methods

The course includes the following activities:
1) Lectures held by the professor starting from November 2022;
2) Tutorials and other teaching activities (in classrooms, in laboratories, and online) organized by the linguistic experts of the CLA, based on oral and written skills in order to strengthen the abilities for acquiring the B2+ Level.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final exam consists of a written test and an oral interview. The written test will be as follows:
1) Multilevel analysis of a text and of its discursive strategies (style, contents, vocabulary, register, symbolic and rhetorical level, etc.) through five open questions.
2) Test of analytical skills, understanding and use of English at a B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with the linguistic experts of the CLA
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
The written test is to be assessed in thirtieths, and the results will be published on the Department website. The final mark will be given after an oral test, to be taken in English, on the subject discussed during the course. To access the final oral test students must have passed the written text. Online registration is mandatory for both tests (via the ESSE 3 online platform).
Written tests are held on a regular basis only once for each exam session; oral tests take place twice for each of the three sessions (summer, autumn, extraordinary). Students who reach a solid linguistic and metalinguistic competence will obtain an excellent evaluation.

Contacts/More Information

Further bibliographical material will be provided during the course. Non-attending students are invited to contact the professor before the final exam.

Other courses

Course year: 1

GENERAL LINGUISTICS I
6 Credits - Basic
ITALIAN LITERATURE I
6 Credits - Basic
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
6 Credits - Basic
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I
6 Credits - Basic
ARABIC LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
ARABIC LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising

Course year: 2

LANGUAGE TEACHING I
7 Credits - Basic
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Characterising
ARABIC LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
ARABIC LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE PHILOLOGY I
8 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
GERMANIC PHILOLOGY I
8 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS I
8 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
SEMITIC PHILOLOGY I
8 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
SLAVIC PHILOLOGY I
8 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LANGUAGE II
9 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LITERATURE II
9 Credits - Characterising
FILM STUDIES
9 Credits - Related/Supplementary
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE I
9 Credits - Related/Supplementary

Course year: 3

COURSES AND INTERNSHIPS
8 Credits
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE I
6 Credits - Characterising
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE II
6 Credits - Characterising
ARABIC LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
ARABIC LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
CHINESE LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LITERATURE II
6 Credits - Characterising
ENGLISH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
FRENCH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
GERMAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
RUSSIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LANGUAGE III
7 Credits - Characterising
SPANISH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Characterising
GEOGRAPHY I
9 Credits - Related/Supplementary
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS I
9 Credits - Related/Supplementary
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE I
9 Credits - Related/Supplementary
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE II
6 Credits - Elective Course
ARABIC I
6 Credits - Elective Course
ARABIC LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
ARABIC LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
CHINESE I
6 Credits - Elective Course
CHINESE LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
CHINESE LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
CHINESE PHILOLOGY
6 Credits - Elective Course
ENGLISH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
ENGLISH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
FRENCH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
FRENCH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
GEOGRAPHY
6 Credits - Elective Course
GERMAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
GERMAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION I
6 Credits - Elective Course
MEDIEVAL GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
6 Credits - Elective Course
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE
6 Credits - Elective Course
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
RUSSIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
SEMITIC PHILOLOGY
6 Credits - Elective Course
SERBO-CROATIAN LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
SERBO-CROATIAN LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
SPANISH LANGUAGE I
12 Credits - Elective Course
SPANISH LITERATURE III
6 Credits - Elective Course
FINAL DISSERTATION
6 Credits - Language/Final Examination
COMPUTER SCIENCE
5 Credits

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