FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

00064LI

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Language/Final Examination

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE

Language:

Italian

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FULGENZI Mirella

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

At least B1 level

Objectives

The course aims to develop language competence to comprehend and produce text in business English according to the syllabus of the degree course in Economics
Therefore, the curriculum, based on the parameter of Common European Framework for Foreign Languages (Strasbourg 1998) will give the student the possibility to learn:
 Communicative competence - level B2 * –
 Micro-language of Economics and Management
 Economic and cultural aspects of the Angle - Saxon world through realia (authentic material) of the economic field necessary to practice:
 The four basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
*Of course it will depend on the score the student gets at the exam, that may be A1 A2 B1 B1plus

Contents

The present degree course in Economics and Commerce prescribes 6 ETC and is organized into both frontal lecturers and practice.
Thus, it will be divided into 2 ETC for English Language and 4 ETC for English in special purposes.
B1 of the Common European Framework (CEFR) is the starting level required, being B1 plus /B2 the final level to gain.
Therefore, the program is based on the review of. English language functions, grammar structures as well as to the introduction of the main lexical and structural elements of the English language for Economics-
As a matter of fact, finally the students will have both a written test – based on a language structures test, a reading comprehension test, a factual text analysis and a summary/report- and an oral exam to check their fluency and accuracy in speaking English for Economics.

Extended Syllabus

The complete English language structures and functions will be reviewed. Therefore, all the 38 units of the grammar course book - S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello,- will be explained and practiced.

As regards English for special purposes, students are required to learn business English through specific and authentic readings of the subject with activities on prefixes and suffixes, phrasal verbs, compound nouns, acronyms, as well as through grammar, spelling and pronunciation differences between British English and American English.
Particular attention will be given to the use of the passive form, the abolition of the relative clause in favour of the sentence construction on the left of the key word, typical of technical and scientific English.

Commercial theory will be dealt in the : Dispensa del docente, Business English for Academic Students-Fundamental Concepts of Business Theory

Topics on English as a global/common language will also be dealt at the course through the essay of Professor Crystal :in
file D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
Furthermore, the possible deterioration of British English in favour of American English will be taught through the following study:
file D’Angelo, Deterioration of British English - Carocci ed

The course aims to provide participants with the basic knowledge necessary for the analysis of a realia in Business English
The complete English language structures and functions will be reviewed. Therefor, all the 38 units of the grammar course book - S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello,- will be explained and practiced.
1 Analysing the English sentence
2 The main parts of a sentence
3 To be; subject pronouns; demonstratives
4 To have – possession -
5 Possessives, reflexives, interrogatives
6 The Present Continuous
7 The Present Simple
8 Prepositions of Place and Time
9 The Imperative
10 The Future - four different ways to express the idea of future -
11 Past simple and past continuous
12 Present perfect and past perfect
14 The noun
15 Articles
16 Adjectives
18 Comparatives and superlatives
19 Indefinite pronouns and adjectives
21 Interrogative pronouns and adjectives
24 Modal Verbs (potere)
25 Modal verbs (dovere)
28 Conditional sentences and if clauses
29 The duration form
30 The passive voice
34 The subjunctive
37 Connectors
38 Direct and reported speech

In order to code a text the learner have to decode many of them, so the course will give the students all the necessary tools to do that, such as how to have a factual text analysis on report with economic topics
To satisfy that aim the students are given the following materials:
Essential strategies and procedures to analyse a case study
Reading skills - pre-reading activities; skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading.
Efficient reading strategies
Factual text Analysis
Types of text – understanding different types of text
Identifying texts and purposes
Jacobson theory of Communication (sender, message, receive and code)
Graphs
Linkers or Connectors
Writing a summary
Further texts present in scrambled order in the file
Karoshi
CCTV surveillance system
Define a lobby
Define pandemic, infodemic and syndemic
Syndemic, by The Lancet

Thus, the source of the economic texts is the Economist. The same passages, with proper activities are introduced through the following course book :
Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- solo students’ book – Longman-Person
Unit 1 Companies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Survival of the fittest and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 A matter of choice
 Will the corporation survive
Unit 2 Leadership
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Terrorising the talent and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 When to terrorise talent
 The art of Delegation
 We don’t need managers we manage ourselves!
Unit 3 Strategy
Comment and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts: comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The big picture
 Nike’s Goddess
 Breaking into a new market
Unit 4 Pay
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Because I’m worth it and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 The rewards of failure
 A controversial court case
Unit 5 Development
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Prosperity or preservation? Then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Gas for Peru V green imperialism
 Pag 46
Unit 6 Marketing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Seducing the masses and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Money can buy you love
 Saying ‘I do’ to the marketers
 That little voice in your head
Unit 7 Outsourcing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The great job migration and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 The new global shift
Unit 8 Finance
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The bottom-line and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Europe’s Enron
Unit 10 Counterfeiting
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The globalisation of deceit and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Imitating property is theft
Unit 11 Markets
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The people’s company and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Going, going, gone?
 The world’s most successful auctioneer
Unit 12 Lobbies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Finding a voice and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Of celebrities, charity and trade
 The new networked lobbies
Unit 13 Communication
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Messaging meltdown and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Coping with infoglut
Unit 14 Logistics
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The invisible industry and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 The best thing since the barcode
Unit 15 Innovation
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Pushing the limits and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Failure is glorious
 Motorola and Iridium

A number of texts based on finance contents – choose during the course – will be given through slides and photocopies,
Commercial theory will be dealt in the
Dispensa del docente, Business English for Academic Students-Fundamental Concepts of Business Theory
Concepts of Business Theory
Commerce and trade: a difference in meaning
Divisions of trade
The cycle of production
The economic system
To produce goods and services three things are needed
Product identification and protection
Demand and supply
Types of economy
Publicly- owned businesses
Types of business ownership
Merchant houses
Corporate structure can change when companies form an alliance
Finance and banks
Banking services
The stock exchange
Speculators

Topics on English as a global/common language will also be dealt at the course through the essay of Professor Crystal :in
file 4 D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
Furthermore, the possible deterioration of British English in favour of American English will be taught through the following study:
D’Angelo, Deterioration of British English - Carocci ed
Linguistics through a video course
Another innovative feature of Globalization: Global English with Professor David Crystal. English as a Global Language
Global English with David Crystal – YouTube
Varieties of English in
David Crystal - World Englishes – YouTube
What will be the future of English as a global language in:
David Crystal - Will English Always Be the Global ... – YouTube

Recommended Bibliography

1 Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- students’ course book -Longman-Person from pag 1 to pag 136
2 S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello. Tutte le units
3 Dispensa del docente, Business English for Academic Students-Fundamental Concepts of Business Theory
file D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
file D’Angelo, Deterioration of British English saggio
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Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course program will be divided into two modules as follows:
MODULE 1 – 2 ECT (European University Credit) deals with:
 Language structure
 Language functions
 Vocabulary

MODULE 2 - 4 ECT – deals with :
 Decode/comprehend realia of Economics
 Practice a Factual Text Analysis
 Write a summary and/or a short report
 Presentation using micro language of Economics

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The evaluation is based on:
 A compulsory written tests to check:
Grammar
Reading comprehension
Factual text analysis
The skill to write a summary and/or a short report

 An oral exam to check:
The student ability to speak in fluent English about all the topics about Economica dealt during the course
Ongoing evaluations for attender students only will be given during or at the end of the course

Contacts/More Information

Attendance is compulsory

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