ENGLISH LANGUAGE 3

The course, as part of the LCSL degree course, will develop and improve the linguistic skills acquired during the two previous years. In particular, it will develop the students' skills in terms of the metalinguistic and textual analyses required to understand, produce and translate texts from English into Italian, and vice versa.

The English language 3 course consists of a Professor’s module taught in the second semester and a year round language practice course (“esercitazioni”). The general aim is to further consolidate the metalinguistic competence required to understand English language at a highly proficient level (C1+/C2 on the CEFR).
1. Competences: the English Language 3 course will consolidate the syntactic, lexical and pragmatic aspects at a highly proficient language level so students will be able to understand complex texts that they will translate from English into Italian. The approach will also include the analysis of the several registers with respect to the several genres that will be translated.
2. Applied Competences: students will be able to use their linguistic competence and the theoretical-methodological approaches provided by translation theory and studies to analyse and translate texts, at the same time considering the several communicative contexts and applications of the texts in both the source language and the target language. Students will also be able to write complex academic texts and to discuss topics typical of academic and professional domains.
3. Independent assessment: students will be able to translate, discuss and write complex texts in English in an effective and autonomous way.
4. Communicative competence: CEFR C1+/C2 level for all the four linguistic skills of written and spoken comprehension and production. Students will be able to communicate in a clear and well structured way with a limited number of mistakes. Students will also develop their skills to mediate contents from English into Italian, and vice versa.
5. Learning Competence: Students will be able to read analytically complex academic texts, specific to their academic curriculum; they will also be able to report on these topics, both in written and oral form, through brief presentations (in preparation to writing their first-degree dissertation). Students will also learn how to take notes from lecture-like situations.

C1 level (CEFR) obtained from successfully passing the English Language 2 final exam.

The English Language 3 course (12 credits) is composed of two parts:

- theoretical module on translation from English into Italian (prof Laura Tosi)
- language practice classes with the CEL to develop the C1+/C2 level (CEFR) in written and spoken Language

Basic notions of translation theory will be discussed: equivalence, collocation, register and jargons, thematic cohesion and coherence, identification of cultural references; text genres, etc. Various types of narrative texts will be translated and analysed in class.

The theoretical module starts in the second semester. Language practice classes are taught in both semesters.Erasmus students are required to have a good knowledge of English (good B2 level in the CEFR framework) as well as a good knowledge of Italian since the core of this module is the translation of texts from English into Italian.

Coursebook for language practice with the CEL:
- Keynote C2. National Geographic Learning.
- Mark Foley, Diane Hall. MyGrammarLab C1/C2. Pearson [reference grammar, class - the same as in second year]
- Paterson, Ken / WedgeTextbook/Study Material for the module on English/Italian translation:

Materials to be studied for the module of Prof. Tosi will be available in the Moodle Learning Environment (password protected) (http://moodle.unive.it ) at the beginning of the module. See also the following suggested reading:

Mona Baker, IN OTHER WORDS. A COURSEBOOK ON TRANSLATION, 2011
Christopher Taylor, LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE, 1999.

Written exam.

The learning outcome of the English Language 3 course will be assessed in a written exam composed of two parts: 1) The Professor’s module is assessed in a written English-Italian Translation test 2) A general language test (composed of a listening comprehension, a written production of a complex text, translation from Italian into English; overall duration: approximately 4 hours with in-between breaks). Starting from the Academic year 2018/2019 the Speaking part will contribute to the final mark. It will be COMPULSORY for all students and will assess the level of oral production in English. Attenders will take the Speaking part test with their CEL, during the E2 practice classes during the academic year. NON-attenders will take the Speaking part test after the written exam: in order to do so, they need to contact their CEL (see divisions according to second language as in the CELs' timetable online) BEFORE the exam. In both cases, the marks of the Speaking part will be kept valid for two academic years.
Students need to pass the module’s part, first, in order to have the rest of the exam marked. Both the module’s part and the general language part (taken on the same day) need to reach the pass mark for the students to successfully pass the English Language 3 exam.

This is a "Blended" course

Italian

Students are informed that:
• The Professor's module starts in the second semester;
• Materials to be studied for the module on translation from English into Italian will be available also in the Moodle Learning Environment (password protected) at the beginning of the module);
• Language practice with the CEL starts in the first semester and will continue in the second semester.

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