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:

Level B1 of English is required to addend the course in a profitable way

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 course aims to provide participants with the basic knowledge necessary for the analysis of a realia in Business English
The whole 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. In details:
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:
In details:
Reading skills - pre-reading activities; skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading.
Efficient reading strategies
Essential definition for what a text is - part I (understanding different types of text)
First step- what a text is - part II (Identifying texts and purposes)
Factual text Analysis
Types of text –Identifying purpose and text convention
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 Teams
Tokyo: 1 in block style 2 in Indented style 3 in column version (layout of a text)
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.

Recommended Bibliography

1 Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- course book -Longman-Person da pag 1 a pag 136
2 S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello. Tutte le units
Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- solo students’ book – Longman-Person
3 Dispensa del docente, Business English for Academic Students-Fundamental Concepts of Business Theory
file 1 Destinations: Writing for academic Success – from page 2 to page 34 - from page 212 to page 219
file 2 Oxford Writing Tudor
file 4 D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter
file 5 D’Angelo, Deterioration of British English saggio
AAVV Types of text

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course programme 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 highly recommended compulsory

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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