- Docente: Marina Manfredi
- Credits: 9
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Learning outcomes
The students are expected to possess an excellent knowledge of the metalanguage, as well as mechanisms, of the descriptive-analytical model of the English language taught. Moreover, they should be competent in all four communicative skills at the C-1 level of the Common European Framework.
Course contents
IMPORTANT: Due to important changes concerning Language classes starting from the new academic year, students need to read (carefully) all news that is posted on the ELSP PAGES: http://www.facli.unibo.it/Lingue/Studenti/Programmi+di+studio+specifici/EnglishLanguageStudiesProgram/default+ELSP.htm
The course is for those who have already done the first and second year of Lingua e linguistica inglese. If you are an erasmus student or for whatever reason have not done these prior exams, please read the informationfor erasmus etc. students below (NB 2, under ‘Assessment Methods'). Your program will need to be different.
Integral parts of the course:
Lectures: II semester (students' group A-F, all semester)
Tutorials: all II semester
Language lessons: all I and II semesterLanguage as Purposeful: Functional Varieties of Text
The course is for 3rd year undergraduate students who have already passed and registered their marks for Lingua e Linguistica Inglese 1 and 2.
Lectures aim at perfecting the competence acquired during the 1st and 2nd year, through: 1) the introduction of concepts that provide the theoretical bases for the notion of register, the subject of the course, and 2) the application of the Functional Grammar descriptive-analytical model to different functional varieties of texts, or registers, with the aim of having students understand the typical lexicogrammar and discourse semantics of these texts and the contextual variables which tend to active them.
Tutorials offer Workshops on the contents of the lectures.
However, since a knowledge of the model is only progressively and cumulatively acquired in the course of all three years of Lingua e Linguistica Inglese, a pre-requisite for this course is that students know the most updated 1st and 2nd year course-book contents.
The practical language classes which go on all year aim at bringing the students to C1 level in all abilities according to the Common European Framework (‘Competent User'). With a view towards further studies and/or the development of professional abilities, they will also aim at developing language awareness through contrastive analysis, focusing on translation and other skills, and using various text types that are relevant to the degree courses the students are enrolled in.
For further information on 3rd year language competence target level, see the ELSP website, at:
Course content:
The course is divided into three different, non-separable, components, in English:
a) Lectures given in English by the course Professor
b) Tutorial workshops held by the tutor
c) Practical language classes with native-speaker language experts
A + B) Lectures and Workshops:
Lectures aim firstly to review, refine and add to basic systemic functional linguistic notions, such as: text, context of situation and culture; register and genre, inter- and contra-textuality and heteroglossia (Bakhtin), and coding orientation (Bernstein). Then, the description of the semiotic system of language and of the process of text creation which the students were taught during the first two years of the course is reinforced through its application to the analysis of various functional varieties of text.
The workshops explain and illustrate further the contents of the lectures, and offer students the opportunity to do practical exercises on theory as well as analysis of the text types which are covered during the course. They also serve the purpose of ‘bridging' the potential divide between the metalinguistic and practical language components of the course.
C) Language lessons:
*** SEE IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE ELSP PAGES.
These focus on all four skills areas: reading (text structure, reading for specific information, for detail, gist, speaker opinion or attitude, in single and multiple texts, in a comparative perspective);writing (content, style and organization in a range of text types; focus on developing argumentation skills); listening (for specific information, gist and attitude); and speaking (pronunciation practice; oral argumentation on a range of topics).
Readings/Bibliography
Lectures and Workshops
The main course-book is:
- Miller D.R. (in collaboration with A. Maiorani & M. Turci), 2005, Language as Purposeful: Functional Varieties of Texts, in the series Functional Grammar Studies for Non-Native Speakers of English; Quaderni del Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), D.R. Miller (ed.): ALMA DL, Asterisco, Bologna.
- Students are also required to know the following texts:
- Halliday M.A.K. & R. Hasan, 1985/1989, Part A of Language, context and text. Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective, Australia, Deakin University Press; Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Ravelli L., 2000, “Getting Started with Functional Analysis of Texts”, in L. Unsworth (ed.), Researching Language in Schools and Communities: functional linguistic perspectives, London, Cassell.
- The basic FG Reference book is:
· Thompson G., Introducing Functional Grammar, London, Arnold, 3rd edition 2012.
All texts will be available for students at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature library. The Thompson text can also be ordered at Feltrinelli International in Via Zamboni, Bologna (or online at http://www.amazon.com) and the Miller coursebook can be found at the copy centre Asterisco in Via delle Belle Arti, and also in electronic form at: AMS ACTA, http://amsacta.cib.unibo.it/866/
Language Classes:
Details of required texts and reader (‘dispensa') will be made available at the beginning of the course.
The required grammar (available in the department library) is:
Downing A. & P. Locke, 2005, English grammar: A university course, UK, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2nd revised edition.
It can also be ordered at Feltrinelli International in Via Zamboni, Bologna (or online at http://www.amazon.co.uk).
Teaching methods
Attendance of all lectures, workshops and language classes is very strongly recommended. Studies in Language Acquisition show that a language is best learnt through active class participation.
a) Lectures and Workshops
3rd year students are divided into 2 groups, by alphabetical order A-F (prof. Manfredi) and G-O/ P-Z (prof. Miller). Lectures for these groups take place on the average of 3-4 hours a week, while the related workshops, aiming to reinforce theory through concrete practice, ordinarily take place every other week, for 2 hours.
A detailed calendar of these activities will be available at the start of the teaching semester,
All students who regularly attend the lectures will be able to access a selection of class PPTs through an online Distribution List.
In order to change lecture group, students must provide BOTH Professors (the student's regular course professor, as well as the one of the group desired) with a letter – categorically by the beginning of the course – specifying and documenting the motivation for their requests (lessons overlapping with other lessons or with a student's working hours, which make attendance impossible). Acceptance of requests – and monitoring of subsequent attendance – is at the discretion of the course Professors.
b) Language lessons
3rd year students will be divided into groups according to their 2nd year results and meet for 4 hours a week for the entire academic year.
Group lists and timetables will be put out on 3rd year notice board at the DLSSM, 2nd floor, staircase B, and on the faculty website, www.facli.unibo.it.
Assessment methods
NB 1: Students CANNOT WAIT to do their language exams until the session in which they are to graduate. Besides the risk that they will not pass and therefore not graduate, there is also simply NOT ample time to correct the exams and register the marks before the deadline in the summer session.
NB 2: Convalidating an exam done abroad is neither simple nor automatic. For vital information concerning Erasmus students (both outgoing and incoming), as well as those out-of-faculty students attending our English courses, see
the English version is available at a link from the Erasmus information page in English.
The English Language and Linguistics 3 exam is divided into three parts:
- a written test based on the contents of lectures and required readings;
detailed information on the test and sample questions are available on ‘Lingua e Linguistica Inglese 3' webpage in the ELSP website, at:
- a written language test, at C1 level;
As soon as possible after the beginning of the language classes in October, a facsimile of the new language exam typology with timing indications will be available on ‘Lingua e linguistica inglese 3' webpage in the ELSP website, at:
as well as at one of the copy centres near the department.
- a speaking ability test (SAT)
A facsimile of the modified speaking ability test will also be available at one of the photocopy shops in the area and on ‘Lingua e linguistica inglese 3' webpage in the same ELSP website pages.
Students are allowed to take the SAT only after having passed both written exams, after which they can register the final mark for the course. This may NOT be done, however, until the student has registered his/her ‘English Literature 2' result.
Both written tests will be offered just once in each official exam session.
Students enrolled in the 3rd year for the academic year 2012-13 will have to wait until the summer session in order to take the language written exam. They will, however, be able to take the written based on the lectures in the first exam session following the end of the lectures of their group (for this academic year, not till the summer session 2013).
The 2 writtens can be taken in separate sessions.
Exam results are always published on the facli website and also put out on 3rd year notice board.
The Faculty has ruled that students who have passed the written exams are NOT allowed to take them again.
The Faculty is currently examining a validity of one year only for written exams (3 sessions). Its decision will be communicated as soon as possible.
N.B: All students MUST enrol themselves on the lists in almaesami. In the absence of a ‘libretto' a student doing an exam must present a valid ID with photo.
·Evaluation for Students doing English as a 3rd language:
Due to our serious lack of personnel, we are unable to offer specific programmes for students doing English as a 3rd language. The only difference is that these students do NOT have to take the SAT.
· Evaluation for Students still enrolled in the ‘vecchio ordinamento – laurea quadriennale' – doing ‘Lingua e Letteratura Inglese':
THESE STUDENTS DO NOT NEED TO TAKE THE WRITTEN TEST BASED ON THE LECTURES AND THE COURSE BOOK CONTENTS (FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR) or the SAT.
They need only take the written language test, at C1 level. Their mark in this will be averaged with that of their literature component and registered as ‘Lingua e Letteratura Inglese'.
· ‘PROVA DI CONOSCENZA DELLALINGUA STRANIERA'
This 3-credit, pass/fail exam, required for those enrolled in the V.O. 509, is to be done ONLY by those who are certain that they will be doing their final undergraduate paper on some English or Anglo-American topic. It consists in a very brief discussion on current affairs.
Those enrolled in the new ‘ordinamento' 270 do NOT do this exam.
Teaching tools
Lectures will make use of PPT.
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/docenti/marina.manfredi
Office hours
See the website of Marina Manfredi