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EXONERATED CHAPTERS - ESONERI
Activity 1 (October 21st and 22nd): partecipate in an oral discussion (in class) on the article "To be or not to be: success or failure in intercultural communication".
NOTE: Activity 1 will not be counted because it was not completed. (On October 21st and 22nd, a large number of students, instead of coming to see me during the ora di ricevimento, took up half the class time asking me to resolve their personal problems (conflicts in schedules, uncertainty about the curriculum, etc.).
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MEANS THAT EVERY STUDENT WILL READ CHAPTER ONE OF GRADDOL
(except the 8 students who participated in the discussion on Oct.
21st, indicated here >
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Activity 2 (due October 28th): partecipate in an oral discussion (tape recorded in a group encounter) on the article "To be or not to be: success or failure in intercultural communication".
Your mark*: 0 – 5 (= no credit, read all of Chapter 2 of Graddol), 6 – 7 (half credit, read the first half of Chapter 2 of Graddol, pages 15-19), 8 – 10 (full credit, skip Chapter 2)
*given by your Rep or, in the case of a Rep, by the teacher.
Activity 3 (due November 4th): prepare a four-part plan to interview a native speaker of English in order to see what kind of English s/he speaks and what "way of seeing things" is associated with that kind of English.
Your mark*: 0 – 5 (= no credit, read all of Chapter 3 of Graddol), 6 – 7 (half credit, read the first half of Chapter 3 of Graddol, pages 25-33), 8 – 10 (full credit, skip Chapter 3)
*given by your Rep or, in the case of a Rep, by the teacher.
Activity 4 (due Novmber 11th): attempt a listening comprehension exercise in a pragmatic and intercultural perspective (first note taking and summarizing in English, then grasping the sociocultural background and communicative intent of native speakers of English).
Your mark*: 0 – 5 (= no credit, read all of Chapter 4 of Graddol), 6 – 7 (half credit, read the first half of Chapter 4 of Graddol, pages 41-47), 8 – 10 (full credit, skip Chapter 4)
*given by your Rep or, in the case of a Rep, by the teacher.
Activity 5 (due Novmber 25th): conduct the interview planned in Activity 2 in order to test a hypothesis about the cultural parameters of a native speaker of English (the interviewee).
Your mark*: 0 – 5 (= no credit, read all of Chapter 5 of Graddol), 6 – 7 (half credit, read the first half of Chapter 5 of Graddol, pages 55-59), 8 – 10 (full credit, skip Chapter 5)
*given by your Rep or, in the case of a Rep, by the teacher.
SUMMARY OF THE EXONERATED CHAPTERS - RIASSUNTO DEGLI ESONERI
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ARTICLE: P. Boylan, 'To be or not to be: success or failure in intercultural communication', in D. Lynch and A. Pilbeam (eds.), Heritage and progress in intercultural understanding, LTS/SIETAR, Bath, 2000, pp. 106-116. |
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If you are a frequentante (no more than 3 absences), you will be examined on this article for the esonero on November 25th and it will not appear on the final exam. If you are a non frequentante, you will not take the esonero on November 25th and you will be examined on this article during the oral part of the final exam in June. |
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ARTICLE: R. White, 'Going round in circles: English as an International Language and Cross-Cultural Capability', in D. Killick and M. Parry (eds.), Languages for Cross-Cultural Capability, CLS Publications, University of Leeds, Leeds, 1998. |
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If you are a frequentante (no more than 3 absences), you will not read this article and you will not be examined on it for any exam. If you are a non frequentante, you will be examined on this article during the oral part of the final exam in June. |
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David Graddol, The Future of English Milton Keynes, The English Company, 2000 |
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Everybody reads this:
page 01 Introduction 02 Overview 04 Book highlights
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Everybody reads this:
page Chapter 1
05 English today 06 The legacy of history 08 English in the 20th Century
10 Who speaks English? 12 Language hierarchies 14 Summary and references
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Students
with half credit for Activity 2 read the part in yellow
page Chapter 2
15 Forecasting 16 Futurology 18 Making sense of trends
20 Predictability or chaos? 22 Scenario planning 24 Summary and references
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Students
with half credit for Activity 3 read the part in yellow
page Chapter 3
25 Global trends 26 Demography 28 The world economy 30 The role of technology 32 Globalisation
34 The immaterial economy 36 Cultural flows 38 Global inequalities 40 Summary and references
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Students
with half credit for Activity 4 read the part in yellow
page Chapter 4
41 Impacts on English 42 The workplace 44 Education and training 46 The global media
48 Youth culture 50 Internet communication 52 Time and place 54 Summary and references
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Students
with half credit for Activity 5 read the part in yellow
page Chapter 5
55 English in the future 56 World English 58 Rival languages
60 English as a transitional phenomenon 62 Managing the future 64 Table, figures, case studies
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This book will be the basis of the final exam in June. If you are a frequentante (no more than 3 absences), you will be examined on ALL, HALF, or NO PART of each chapter, on the basis of the mark you received for the corresponding research activity (see above). The exam will be both written and oral.
If you are a non frequentante, you will be examined on the entire article during the written part of the final exam in June.
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