University
of Rome III _ School of Humanities _
Degree in Languages and International Communication |
Academic Year: 2006-07 _ Course convener: Patrick Boylan _ Email: p a t r i c k @ b o y l a n . i t _ Folder: 6_III-2o |
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III-2
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Third Year
English for English minors (surnames A-Z, curriculum
OCI) |
Module “English for intercultural communication” |
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Welcome to the Web Site of this course. During
the course information of general interest will be posted here.
If YOU want to communicate with the other students or with the
teacher, use the BULLETIN BOARD above: just click on New
user (for your first visit) and Old
user (for the following visits). Your
photo page is ready! Go to YOUR DATA (in the main menu) and click
on PHOTOS: REVOCATO SCIOPERO venerdì 15 dicembre TELEVIDEO
ORE 18.52 Revocato sciopero nazionale metro-bus Accordo raggiunto
a Palazzo Chigi sul contratto degli autoferrotranvieri. Revocato
lo sciopero di 24 ore.
Our last lesson will take place as
scheduled, Friday, Dec. 15th, 3 to 5 pm.
A few shots of the encounter with Trinity College students on November 20th...
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*Partial exams: To take the “partial exams” (esoneri), you must enroll in this course (use the form above). But no booking is required since they are not "real"exams -- they simply reduce the study load for the final exam (for which you must book). Each partial exam you pass eliminates one of the texts from the final exam and counts for a part of your final mark. But only the final mark goes on your libretto. |
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As a non-attender, you are responsible
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Syllabus |
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Interactants
in L1/L2 and lingua franca encounters in English are often
uncertain about the other party's linguistic-cultural matrix
(felt values). This leads one or both of them to adopt a
so-called "neutral stance" in framing utterances or in
communicating behaviorally, in order to ensure minimal
understanding and to avoid critical incidents. The
organizational aspects of the module -- requirements and credits,
evaluation |
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3.
Monograph P. Boylan
“Il come e il perché degli
esami”
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<cliccare "Learning
language as culture" (in italiano) |
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Where
to meet native speakers of English? Here are their
“lairs*” in Rome!
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17.11.06 |
Review of key ideas
behind course (including the presupposition – while we are
speaking in English, we are acting coherently with some Anglo
culture). The first linguistic/cultural model we will follow is
that of R.P. speakers in England, whose sociolect is that of the
(former) British empire.
Encounter
with the students of Trinity College, Clivio dei Publicii 7 (colle
Avventino)
Fabio Carello |
20.11.06 |
Simulation of “dual
level interview”: sociometric questioning and
ethnolinguistic questioning. ![]() British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "Let us therefore
brace ourselves to our duty... so bear ourselves... that if the
British Empire and its commonwealths last for a thousand years...
men will still say... this was their finest hour!" ( House of
Commons, June 18th, 1940.)
![]() Lady
Diana Frances Spenser, Princess of Wales: Interview on the BBC
program Panorama, November 1995: “The most
daunting aspect was the media attention...” ![]() J.
R. R. Tolkien,
Oxford
professor of English, author of
studies on Anglo-Saxon and of the fantasy novels The Hobbit
and The Fellowship of the Ring. “There was one
page of this particular [exam]
paper that was left BLANK!
Glorious!
Nothing to read! So I scribbled on it – I can't think
why –
'In
a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit...'” |
21.11.06 |
Epistemological
differences between sociometric findings and ethnographic
findings. Since I am late posting the evaluation form for TASK 1, you have an extra day to do the assignment! Send
your report to your group leader by Saturday, 25 November. Your
Group Leader should mark it and send it to me by noon on Monday,
November 27th . Sending it in earlier to your group
leader, so that I can receive it earlier than Monday morning,
would be appreciated. |
27.11.06 |
Studying English as ethnographic
research – for example, when to use “some/any”
in an expression like “Would you like some/any coffee?”
or the value of the word “nice” in the expression
“Sara/Chiara is a nice girl”
said with a given intonation. How can you discover what to say or
what is meant? A window will appear asking you for
From November 29th to
December 4th you must complete all the work asked of
you in the workbook "How
to interview using a questionnaire", Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and
5 (but not 6). On December 5th
(a Friday) you will meet as a group in the classroom (Aula A),
read the work produced by the other members and decide, together
with your Group Leader, the mark for Task 2 (Sections 1, 2, 3 and
4, worth 5 points) and Task 3 (Section 5, worth points). Your
group leader will fill out the respective evalu5ation
sheets.
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28.11.07 |
Review the notion of the 3 kinds of ethnographic questions (it was not discussed during the last lesson because the Consiglio di Facoltà, which occupied our classroom, lasted until 3:45. Assignment: Task 2 and Task 3 by December 5th. |
11.12.06 |
1. The PICTURE interview of the Englishman in downtown Amsterdam. Note his intonation and behavioral communication when asked if he is proud to be British: 1. How proud are you to be a British citizen? On a scale of: very proud ◄─|─|─|─|─|─|─|─|─|─► not proud Why? Any comment? ________________________________________
Warning:
Many of the ethnographic questions invented for Task 2 were almost
sociometric in nature. You must distinguish between sociometic
questioning and: 4. Example: Using
structured ethnographic questions to see if you have understood
your Anglo interlocutor who speaks of “letters of
recommendation”. |
12.12.06 |
Partial Exam (Esonero)
on Kistler & Konivuori. |
15.12.06 |
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Italian school marking system: 0 |
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Points for each Task completed: 0 |
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TASK
1 ETHNOGRAPHIC REPORT Write your report using British academic English.
See
the Evaluation Form here
for the criteria in judging a good report.
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Task
2 Do
Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of your workbook. These Sections, together
with their Appendices, will guide you in preparing your own
Sociometric Questionnaire. This is the Questionnaire that you
will use for Task 3 and Task 4. (For Task 3 you will use a
translated version, since your interviewees will be
Italians.)
Your
workbook will help you create a Sociometric Questionnaire. It can
be on ANY subject you want that, in your opinion, helps you
understand the culture of your Anglo interviewees. You will find
suggestions about topics in Section 1 of your workbook. But
before you write your questionnaire, read Section 2. |
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Task
3
As
for the form your indirect interrogation, read the indications
given for the lesson on Nov. 27th (see Recap of
Lessons in the main menu): your questions MUST be of three
different kinds: Descriptive/Structural/Contrast. YOUR
QUESTIONNAIRE IN ITALIAN
Finally,
write a BRIEF summary of the results of your questioning. In
particular, make it clear if you learned something new about your
own culture or if people answered as you had predicted. |
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Task
4 For
Task 4, you will repeat Task 1. This time the Sociometric
Questionnaire will be the one you invented for Task 2 and that
you practiced using (in its translated from) with family and
neighbors for Task 3. It will be the “cover” for your
ethnographic questions DOING TASK 4 – YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE IN ENGLISH Just
as you did for Task 1, first try to place your interviewees along
Hofstede's five cultural dimension clines, then decide which of
your sociometric questions can illuminate whether your hypotheses
are correct. To be able to make a statistic, interview at
least 3 Anglo native speakers, preferably from the same
geographical region and social class. After asking each
Sociometric Question, ask your Descriptive/Structural/Contrast
questions to give context to the answer and also situate the
values that lie behind your Sociometric Question. |
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