![]() Modi di essere e modi di esprimersi in inglese I° ciclo: 22 ottobre - 19 novembre |
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Chi
è principiante in inglese potrà ricuperare il proprio
"deficit" frequentando
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Course
Syllabus (goals, topics, required readings)
Programma
del corso (finalità, temi, testi da portare all'esame)
Il corso completa consiste nei seguenti quattro moduli. Secondo il tipo di formazione desiderato e quindi il curriculum scelto, lo studente può seguirne solo alcuni e in un ordine diverso da quello indicato qui.
N.B. Nell'ordine degli studi, viene detto che il corso Modi di essere e modi di esprimersi in Inglese s'articola in quattro unità ("a", "b", "c", e "d"). Quest'anno, tuttavia, per problemi organizzativi, verranno offerti i soli moduli "a", "b", "c".
Testi:
BYRAM M. & FLEMING M., Language Learning in an Intercultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
AA.VV., Siti per l'esercitazione interattiva
in inglese, http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/boylan/call/call-ing.htm
‹--Premere sull'indirizzo.
http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/boylan/terni/terni-si.htm
‹--Premere sull'indirizzo.
(Interrogazione su 5 siti, a scelta dello studente)
Per ragguagli sugli orari delle lezioni, sui crediti riconosciuti e sulle categorie di studenti a cui questi corsi sono destinati, premere qui-›.
Enrolment Form.
Please download the
Enrolment
Form, fill it out, and e-mail it to me. You can get a copy
of the form and instructions for filling it out by clicking here-›..
The information on the form will be treated with respect for your privacy. The information will help me estimate what level I should aim for in my teaching. It will also permit me to reform groups according to such criteria as: geographical proximity of habitation, knowledge of English, curriculum chosen, etc.
Are you on the class
list? Click here to see the students enrolled to date-›..
(For the list of Study
Groups, see below)
Optional
reading: U.S.
Accents Click here-› .
From: www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NatMap1.html
What does "optional
reading" mean?
It means that this
publication gives you background information
On the exam, however,
you will not be asked to imitate Southern American pronunciation or to
transcribe it (unless you are taking Module C on Thursdays). So the
technical information in this publication will not be necessary to pass
the exam. On the other hand, some exam questions will be about the
different varieties of English in the world; in answering them, you may
be able to use some of the technical (phonological) information from this
publication. If you do, you will get a higher mark.
Modulo B
Ethnolinguistic research groups (no enrolment application
will be accepted after January 31st!): click here to see group members-›
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Phonetic and CA transcription exam as a preparation for the
Ethnolinguistic research project (only for students taking Module B): the
exam (or "esonero") is scheduled for November 12th. It consists
of writing two transcriptions:
1. a phonetic transcription
of a segment of a BBC weather report;
2. a CA transcription
("Conversational Analysis") of a segment of the original Big Brother
show (BBC, 1970 - working class speakers from Reading)
Both audio segments
are on cassettes available for individual study in the language lab.
The lab technician will also furnish one cassette to each
group leader for group study (recommended) to be done at home or in an
empty classroom, not in the lab. For the conventions of phonetic
and CA transcriptions, see the booklet "Documentation" distributed in class
to each group.
Ethnolinguistic research project (only for students taking Module
B). Due date: before Easter vacation (otherwise it
will not be corrected). The group leader can consign the paper to
the teacher during office hours. For office hours and absences, press
here-›
.
To better prepare yourself for your ethnolinguistic research project, you can read the text Developing an ethnographic method by clicking here-›.(to see the text on your screen) or here-›.
(to download the text).
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To carry out the project you must:
1. Interview a native speaker of English who speaks some variety that is not "Queen's English" (you can interview a typical tourist at the train station or in an Irish pub, for example).
2. Transcribe the
most interesting segment of the recording (one minute of speech is the
minimum): use CA conventions and, when the subject's pronunciation conveys
meaning, use phonetic symbols between slashes, like the word "Italian"
below:
Student:ä
Sîr (2.0) sîr (1.0) ä excuse
me
(5.0) May we ìnterview you (.) [for a] cláss
project
Tourist:
[Wha-]
(2.0) a whát
S
A clàss project h for our [ènglish] class=
T
[âh ]
=At an /aitæ:ljÙn/
schòol
3. Identify the subject's cultural group membership: where s/he was born, raised, educated; where s/he now lives and works; what social class s/he belongs to; what kind of people and places s/he frequents; what beliefs and values s/he professes (this last question can be dangerous so use prudence!).
4. Write a report
in which you give the CA (and phonetic) transcription, the subject's cultural
group membership, and your comments. Use a word processor to write
the report. Most versions of Word permit you to choose IPA
symbols for your character set when doing a phonetic transcription.
If your word processor does not have IPA characters, you can write the
phonetic transcriptions by hand. The paper should be the length of
the model papers in the Documentation booklet.
Modulo C (giovedì)
Cultural accommodation exam (only for students taking Module
C):
the exam (or "esonero")
is scheduled for the last day of this cycle, November 15th. Read
the web pages here-›
to prepare for it.
Cultural accommodation project (only for students taking
Module C). Due date: before Easter vacation
(otherwise it will not be corrected). The group leader can consign
the cassette to the teacher during office hours. For office hours
and absences, press here-›
.
Your group is NOT
necessarily the same as the Ethnographic Reserarch Group (which probably
has members who are not Operatori Interculturali and who therefore are
not interested in doing this Cultural Accomodation Project). In order
to create a NEW group for the recording, find 5 to 10 students who live
near you or whom you know, phone them or e-mail them to meet and make a
recording, according to the instructions below. How can you find
5 to 10 students to form a group? Look at the names and addresses
listed here: -›
‹-On this page you will also see the groups already formed for the Accommodation
of Pronunciation.
To carry out the project you must:
1. View at least part of the film Nashville. There are 5 copies of the film in the language laboratory. Each monitor in the Video Room has a double earphone (cuffia) so try to view the film with another student: when you don't understand something, stop the tape and ask your partner for help.
2. Select a character you can identify with.
3. Imitate that person's pronunciation. If you want to know what characterizes the pronunciation of the person you choose, read the description of U.S. Accents (Northeastern, Mid-West, Western and Southern) above, If you choose to imitate Opal, the BBC journalist, read the description of "Received Pronunciation" (or "RP", the upper-class British pronunciation) in the following textbook (available in the language laboratory with an audio cassette):
You are to imitate
just a few seconds of speech (from 5 to 20 seconds). This corresponds
to two short utterances taken from a conversation or a brief monologue.
Example of a 5 second sequence:
Haven Hamilton: Now you get your hair cut. You don't belong
in Nashville.
4. Make a group recording of your pronunciation. This means that you must first form a group of 5 to 10 students; tell one of the students to bring a cassette and a cassette recorder: meet in an empty classroom; practice imitating your character; listen to the criticisms of the other students and, if you agree, modify your pronunciation; record the modified version following the format given below:
Name: Hello, my name's Nero Bianchi.
Identification: I was born in Latina on January 15th, 1980.
Character: The character I have chosen to identify with is: Haven
Hamilton.
Accent: He speaks Southern American English, country style.
Imitation: "Now I'd like to sing you all the song that got me started in
this business, a song that has been real kind to me all through these years:
Keep
a'goin' "
Name: Hello, my name's Bianca Neri.
Identification: I was born in Rome on December 4th, 1978.
Character: The character I have chosen to identify with is: Opal.
Accent: She speaks upper-class British English with an RP accent.
Imitation: "Do you really think so, Mr. Hamilton? [...] Oh,
how marvellous to see you here: do come in! [...] Good Lord,
just look at them!
(In this case, the student
Bianca Neri has chosen three separate utterances from three different scenes.
Putting them together has given her at least 5 seconds of speech.)
5. Consign the cassette
before Easter. DO NOT consign a cassette if it has only one recording
on it. Consign a cassette that has the recordings of at least five
students, one after another, preferably (but not necessarily) recorded
the same day.
OLD NOTICES
Language
Lab: On Tuesday, October 30th,
the lesson (module A) will proceed as follows:
11:30-12 -
Lesson, classroom 17. "How to study for the exam in the lab"
12.00-12.30 - Language
Lab, students M-P - guided practice.
12.30-13.00 - Language
Lab, students Q-Z (plus any A-L students taking the course
this month) - guided practice.
Ethnolinguistic research materials (only for students taking Module B)
Your
group will receive one copy of a 32-page booklet giving you examples of
the
kind
of project you are to conduct for your "esonero". The booklet
will not appear on this site so you must make photocopies of it for the
other people in your group.
N.B.
Your research project must be turned in to the teacher before Easter
vacation (otherwise it will not be corrected).
Dovete/volete ottenere un credito lavorando autonomamente nel laboratorio linguistico?
Ora è possibile.
Da oggi (4.12.01) la lettrice Seonaid Sinclair riceve gli studenti individualmente al laboratorio linguistico per concordare un programma di lavoro (25 ore) con i materiali per lo studio autonomo disponibili. Per fissare un appuntamento basta scrivere le proprie generalità sull'apposito quaderno nel laboratorio.
N.B. C'è ampio tempo (fino a giungo e anche oltre) per fissare e svolgere un proprio programma di studio. Quindi NON E' NECESSARIO iscriversi ora. (Non è nemmeno auspicabili: se tutti studenti dovessero presentarsi subito, non basterebbero neanche lontanamente le ore di disponibilità della prof. Sinclair questo mese!).
*exam results not ready yet (it will take at least 3 weeks!)
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MY RESPONSE:
"Sorry, Felix, but please try to understand. There
are 180 papers to correct. Even if I dedicate only 10 minutes to
correcting and registering each one, that makes 30 hours of work.
(Plus 20 hours for the Thursday exam = 50 hours. And since I spend
more than 10 minutes on many papers, it's actually more than 80 hours.)
But there are 40 hours in a work week! So even if I worked non-stop
on just the corrections I wouldn't have had the time.
And in reality, I can't work non-stop: this week, for example, I had to got to Turin for a commissione di selezione nuovi ricercatori, to numerous meetings to get the esercitazioni in inglese going for you and to plan for next semester, plus classes for three corsi di laurea, preparations for a congress next week and a conference the week after, tesi di laurea, research group encounters, discussions to improve the language lab, etc. etc.
Please keep in mind that you don't need the results now. I can in fact determine the amount of pages to eliminate from your required reading ONLY after I correct your ethnographic research project as well. So... BE PATIENT!"