TEACHING/LEARNING AIMS
The course aims to develop in an integrated way the receptive and
productive abilities, in this case either listening and oral or written
comprehension, together with the ability to use the foreign language in a
flexible and effective way. Finally the language reflection on a morpho syntactic, semantic-communicative level will be developed and improved.
In the case:
B1-B2 (European language framework) skills, i.e.
General skills
• understand the general meaning of oral messages of various types
• understand specific information in oral messages of various types
•skimming, using appropriate strategies,
•Understanding the main ideas and specific information in texts of a
technical-professional nature
interacting in conversations on topics related to work
producing descriptions of technical-professional topics
producing brief reports, summaries and coherent and cohesive
comments, also with the aid of multimedia tools, using the vocabulary
producing coherent and cohesive written and oral texts, including
technical and professional ones, concerning experiences, situations and
processes relating to one's own sector of Specific skills
General linguistic knowledge
• communicative aspects of interaction and oral production in relation to
the context and the interlocutors
• compensatory strategies in oral interaction
• strategies for oral interaction in study and work contexts, including
formal ones
• skimming and scanning of complex written, oral and multimedia texts
• conventional vocabulary and phraseology for dealing with social and
work situations; variety of register and context
• morphosyntactic structures, rhythm and intonation suitable for the
communicative context and textual professional contexts of use
• organizing the speech in the main textual types, including technical professional ones
Specific knowledge
The ones related to the contents of the syllabus