University of Rome III - Faculty of Arts and Letters - Department of Linguistics - Patrick Boylan - October-December 2001
![]() Modi di essere e modi di esprimersi in inglese II° ciclo: 20 ottobre - 17 dicembre |
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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-›.
Chi
è principiante in inglese potrà ricuperare il proprio
"deficit" frequentando
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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.
To see who is enrolled, click
here-›..
To see the groups
for the Ethnolinguistic Interview project (Monday lessons), click here
-› .
To see the groups for the Accommodation of Pronunciation project (Thursday lessons), click here -› .
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.
Optional
assignments
Compiti
per gli "esoneri"
There are 14 chapters in Byram & Fleming. Each assignment successfully completed exonerates the student from one or more of the 14 chapters. How many chapters? Which ones? This information will appear on this web site after the assignments are corrected -- a long process, as the students of the first cycle have learned! The assignments (esoneri) consist of the following 4 tasks: N.B.: Lingua e Linguistica students do only esoneri 1 and 2.1. Phonetic transcription of RP and regional British English (worth 1-3 chapters) 2. Ethnolinguistic report on a native speaker of non-standard English (worth 2-4 chapters) 3. Cultural Accommodation practices using English in non-British cultures (worth 1-3 chapters) 4. Cultural Accommodation to accents (RP, American) (worth 2-4 chapters) Students who do poorly on their assignments and students who do none of the assignments (because they were absent or because they are part-time students) are not penalized as to their final mark. They will simply have to read (and be examined on) all 14 chapters of Byram & Fleming. Lingua e Linguistica and Europei ed Extraeuropei students, who can do two assignments, could theoretically be exonerated from half the book (7 chapters out of 14). This would mean, however, getting a perfect score for both tasks done. Operatori Interculturali students have the theoretical possibility
of getting perfect scores on all four assignments and thus not being
tested on the book at all (automatic credit). In the past this has
proved to be a rare case...but "where there's life, there's hope" (la
speranza è l'ultima a morire).
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1.
Module
B (Monday classes)
Exam
on December 17th, 2001
Phonetic and CA transcription exam as a preparation for the
Ethnolinguistic report project (only for students taking Module B).
The exam (or "esonero")
is scheduled for December 17th. It consists of writing two transcriptions:
1. an IPA
(International Phonetic Association) transcription
of a BBC weather report;
2. a CA ("Conversational
Analysis") transcription of a segment of the original Big Brother
show (BBC, 1970 - working class speakers from Reading).
You can hear both
segments on a cassette, labeled Documentation, which
is available for individual study in the language
lab. The teacher will also furnish one Documentationcassette
to each group leader for group study (in an empty classroom, at the home
of one of the group members). This is the best way to study.
Finally, you can also hear the sounds of RP English by pressing
the buttons below :
To learn the phonetic symbols as defined by the IPA (International Phonetic Association), follow the booklet Documentation while listening to the sounds of RP ("Received Pronunciation") English. Then listen to them again while practicing writing them. Then practice writing out the phonetic transcription of the following RP reading of a
Check how you have written the words against the transcriptions found in any dictionary using IPA conventions. For example, the Cobuild dictionary uses IPA while Webster's does not (it uses its own system); so do not consult Webster's..
Then, using the conventions illustrated in the booklet Documentation, practice making a Conversation Analysis (CA) transcription of two excerpts from the original "Big Brother" program produced in 1970 by the BBC:
Check what you have written against the CA transcription found in Documentation.(Recorded material from:
Dennis Freeborn, Varieties of English, MacMillan: London, 1993.)
*These
files are too big to import directly. They will be downloaded as
compressed files, for example, "consonants.exe". Just click
on them to extract the audio files and click on the latter.
2.
Module
B (Monday classes)
report
due any time before Easter vacation
Ethnolinguistic research projectTo 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).
Ecco una serie di email in cui RISPONDO A DOMANE che forse hai
anche tu.
Perciò, prima di scrivermi, legge le varie lettere cliccando qui -› ![]() |
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 carry out the
project you must be part of a group of 6 students (maximum 7, minimum 5).
These are different from the groups formed for the Cultural Accommodation
project (Thusday classes). Click here to see the proposed groups (no enrolment
application will be accepted after January 31st!) -›.
If you are not on this list, ask the students of one of the groups alreay formed to join theirs.
Once you have a group, elect a group leader and ask her/him to email the names of the members of the group to mod-b @ boylan.it (s/he must give the group number, too; see the numbers by clicking on the orange button above
Then, sometime before Easer vacation, as a group:
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 booklet Documentation.
3.
Modulo
C (giovedì)
Exam
on December 13th
Cultural accommodation practices (only for students taking Module
C) -- This is an individual exam, scheduled for the last Thursday
of this cycle, December 13th. Read the web pages here-›
to prepare for it.
4.
Modulo
C (giovedì)
Exam
on December 13th
Cultural accommodation of accent (RP and American) -- only for
students taking Module C. This is an group task, to be completed
and consigned before Easter vacation (otherwise it will not
be corrected).
Groups can have between
5 and 10 members. 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.
The grades (marks)
will be assigned individually; the reason for doing the recordings in groups
is that experience shows how much performance improves when students are
coached by other students. The group leader can consign the cassette
to the teacher during office hours. For office hours and absences,
press here-› .
To carry out the project you must:
1. View at least part of the film The Maltese Falcon. 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: Sam Spade, Caspar Gutman, Brigid O'Schaughnessy, Effie (the secretary), Joel Cairo, Wilmer (the Punk), Tom (the police lieutenant), Archer (Sam's partner), etc.
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 Gutman, 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:
Caspar Gutman: "I must have my little joke now and then. And you
passed with flying colours."
4. Make a group recording of your pronunciation. This means that you must first form a group of 5 to 10 students (not necessarily the same as the group you formed for module B, Mondays). 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: Caspur
Gutman.
Accent: He speaks old boy (upper class) British English, with an
RP accent.
Imitation: "Yes sir, that I did. I must have my
little joke now and then. And I must say you passed with flying colours."
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: Wilmer,
the Punk.
Accent: He speaks general American with an Inland Northern accent
typical of the slums and of criminals in general.
Imitation: "Ya better watch what ya say. [...] C'mon,
dick, there's someone what wants ya."
(In this case, the student Bianca Neri has chosen utterances from two 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. The cassette must have the recordings of at least five students,
one after another, preferably (but not necessarily) done the same day.
Scene from The Maltese Falcon
(John Houston, 1941; with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney
Greenstreet)
Click here-›
OR here-›
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Vecchie Notizie apparse su questa pagina:
Lunedì, 26 nov., VOTAZIONE
per poter sdoppiare il corso.
Su un foglio di carta risponderai
alla domanda: "Quale nuovo orario accetteresti tu?"
N.B.: Qualunque sia l'esito della votazione, coloro che, lunedì mattina, non avranno trovato un posto seduto alle 10 dovranno uscire e poi tornare dalle 11.30 alle 13.00 nell'aula 18 accanto. Se non potranno tornare, dovranno convincere uno degli studenti seduti a fare lo scambio oppure a prestare gli appunti della lezione.
ATTENZIONE: L'orario 11.30-13 del corso sdoppiato vale solo per questo lunedì, 26 novembre. In seguito, non ci saranno più aule disponibili in quella fascia oraria.
Pertanto, a partire da martedì,
il corso sdoppiato
si terrà necessariamente in uno dei due orari che seguono (che verrà
selezionato in base alle votazioni):
- il
lunedì e il martedì dalle 14.30 alle 16 (aula 3)
- il
lunedì dalle 13 alle 15 e il martedì dalle 14 alle 15 (aula
16)
Quest'ultimo orario è caldamente
consigliato -- consente di lavorare meglio insieme il lunedì (formando
gruppi, ecc., per il modulo della ricerca sul campo).
La lezione di giovedì non
cambia orario: rimane sempre dalle 10 alle 11.30 (aula 17).
Il corso sdoppiato durerà
da martedì, 27 nov., fino alla fine del corso, il 17 dic.
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Se
hai mandato la scheda ma il tuo nome non appare sulla lista che vedi cliccando
sul tasto qui sopra, cosa vorrà dire?
Potrà
voler dire che la tua scheda va bene ma non è stata ancora inserita
(vedi la data all'inizio della lista dei nomi ("as of Nov....") per sapere
quando c'è stato l'ultimo aggiornamento della lista).
Oppure
potrebbe voler dire che, quando hai riempito la scheda, l'hai scaricata
dalla pagina del I° ciclo invece di usare questa pagina qui (che è
quella del II° ciclo). In tal caso troverai il tuo nome nella
lista degli studenti del primo ciclo.
Oppure
potrebbe voler dire che la scheda è arrivata in forma non idonea
per essere inserita nella lista. "Non idonea" vuol dire che hai scordato
di salvare la scheda, dopo averla riempita, come documento TEXT (scheda2-,txt).
Per esempio, se hai salvato la scheda come documento Word (scheda2-.doc),
non può essere inserita nella lista perché la database usata
non riconosce documenti Word. La soluzione? Rimandare la scheda,
dopo averla salvata come TEXT (scheda2-.txt).
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!).
Your e-mail (Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:32:12 +0100):
sì >e di quelli del Big Brother? NO! Devi saper trascrivere Big Brother secondo le norme della Conversational Analysis (ortografia normale con indicazioni dell'intonazione, pause, sovrapposizioni, interruzioni...) >Oppure dei due brani del Big Brother
infatti, proprio così.
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