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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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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Handouts |
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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.
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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. |
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Marking Scheme |
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Italian school marking system: 0 |
1 - 3 |
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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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