University
of Rome III _ School of Humanities _
Degree in Languages and International Communication |
Academic
Year: 2008-09
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Course
convener: Patrick Boylan _
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First
Year English for
LL English minors and OCI English majors (surnames A-Z) |
“Seeing
and saying things in English” |
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ESONERO RESULTS: NOT READY
YET, I'M STILL BUSY WITH THE ELECTIONS;
Il
prof. Suresh
Canagarajah sarà
ospite da noi a Roma Tre per due diversi incontri. Il primo
incontro - un open meeting - si terrà mercoledì 26
dalle 14.00 alle 16.00 in aula 14, sul tema: WORLD ENGLISHES and
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY What does being proficient in English mean
today when there are diverse varieties of English. Implications
for testing.
Della
serie, “In che mondo viviamo? Assemblea,
mercoledì 26.11, ore 16, aula 10. TROVATI!
14.11.08 Results of the
request to sign for “being Anglo during the lessons on
Anglo language and culture” Out of 87 students, 86
signed up to “be Anglo” during the lessons. And,
hopefully, when interacting with Anglos!
13.11.08
Information about
Trinity College: in the United States> Information about the
“Contro-inaugurazione studentesca” on Thursday:
If you can't send
your Group Leader your audio/video files because your email
service doesn't accept big emails,
7.11.08 TRANSPORTATION
STRIKE ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH – NO LESSON
26.10.08
26..10.08
NO MAKE-UP LESSON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 Our “alternative
lesson” on Monday, October 27th, was rained out after 20
minutes! So there was no lesson. And thus there is no
lesson to make up.
The weather report
says it will rain heavily on Wednesday and Friday, so for now
our ONLY Lezione in Piazza will
be Monday.
OUR
LESSON WILL BE HELD IN PIAZZA FARNESE
24-10-08
24-10-08 Michael Moore's latest film (made in 2007 but just released) Slacker Uprising (il risveglio degli studenti menefreghisti) This Thursday, October
30th, at 8 pm, U.S.
Citizens for Peace and Justice - Rome will present
Slacker
Uprising, a documentary film that shows how Michael
Moore, just before the last United States Presidential election
(2004), held rallies on college campuses all across America, to
convince college kids (who traditionally boycott elections) that
THEY CAN MAKE THE
DIFFERENCE. With him: musicians and artists like
Eddie Vedder, Steve Earle, Roseanne Barr, Joan Baez, and Viggo
Mortensen. The film shows "the birth of a new political
generation." 24-10-08 NOTICE for the
students I assigned to classes with Connealy/Fallon.
PLEASE
DO NOT ASK ME PERSONAL QUESTIONS
22.10.08 Question to answer at the beginning of the class: How many students are taking prof. MacLarens's Speaking Module (Thursday , 2-4pm) and would be able to take it instead on Tuesday 10am-12 noon?
22.10.08 SUGGESTED LETTORATI
FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS (OCI
and LL 2a lingua)
20-10.08 Please read the
instructions on how to “take roll” (“segnare le
presenze”).
20-10.08 TWO CHANGES IN CLASS
DATES: 15-10.08 TUTTI GLI STUDENTI
DI INGLESE, PRIMO ANNO, SONO PREGATI DI CONTROLLARE La partecipazione ai corsi non dà diritto
a crediti ma serve unicamente ad assolvere gli obblighi
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How to do “Task
1” (compito) for Monday?
15-10.08 The lessons on Wednesday, 6 – 8 pm, will be held in Room 12 instead of Room 10.
15-10.08 As
of October 15th: NO
MORE NEW STUDENTS ADMITTED TO THE
FREQUENTANTI
PROGRAM 15-10.08 FRIDAY
(October 17th): NO LESSON – SCIOPERO GENERALE, read about
it here and
here.
15-10.08 “Solution” for the conflict in class schedules There were no large classrooms available on Tuesday 4-6pm or Thursday 10-12pm, so these two proposals could not be taken into consideration. The Lettrice
of Chinese came up with a
solution.
13-10.08 Schedule of the
Lettori Lessons
08-10.08 If you didn't do (or
finish) the DiaLang test today, do it (or finisih it) at home
tonight. There are 15 PC's (with DiaLang ALREADY INSTALLED) in the in Language Laboratory that you can use until 4 pm. Send me the results on
the form here.
Download it, fill it out, and send it to:
patrick
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08.10.08
Next
Tuesday, October 14, 2 pm, Meeting of the Collegio
Didattico, at the request of the Student Representatives
(Federica, Kosyta, Valentina), to examine the conflicts in the
course schedule.
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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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In
this Module we will examine what language is "beyond words
and syntax" -- a move toward a
linguistics of parole
alongside
the traditional Saussurian linguistics of langue.
Then, on the basis of our wider
definition of language, we will attempt a cultural description of
"English" -- or rather, Englishes, as they exist in
today's globalized yet fragmented world.
During the Lettore tutorial students will acquire a better formal competence in using contemporary R.P. English – at level B1 or higher – through class and lab work.
The
organizational aspects of the Module -- requirements and credits,
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1.
Monograph:
P.
Boylan. "Understanding others". SIETAR
Deutschland Journal
10:1
(April, 2004), pp. 28-32. To
read the text click here> Non
Frequentanti
only
4.
Monograph
P.
Boylan “Il
come e il perché degli esami”
For Frequentanti only;
Students
from the corso
di laurea in Lettere
(and
other degree courses) who need 6 credits will study texts 1, 2, 3
and 4 if they are
non
frequenanti;
as frequentanti
they
will study the program indicated in the paragraph above.
Students
from the corso
di laurea triennale
in
Lingue e Comunicazione Internazionale
who
need 5 credits for the Teacher's Module will study texts 1, 3 and
4 if they are non
frequentanti.
As frequentanti
they
will attend lessons up to November 28th and take both
esoneri.
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<cliccare "Learning
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October 6 |
Introduction to course |
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October 8 |
DiaLang test in the PC lab |
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October 10 |
Class
organization. News...
Seeing this film is OPTIONAL and is part of the ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH* to language learning that this course promotes. *Rome
offers many occasions to learn English, or other languages,
ethnographically,
through participant
observation of
native speakers while they interact as a community in real life
situations. For example, you can learn about British pub
life by observing Brits in one of their “locals” in
Rome (see the addresses here)
and using the techniques Kate Fox describes
here.
Or you can see and discuss “alternative” films with
American expats in Rome who have organized the film club
described above. See other opportunities here.
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October 13 |
Second
technique:
Triangulation
-- note how the culture is described by people of a third culture
that you are familiar with. (This will help to relativize
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October 15 |
Reminder:
Eyes
Wide Open film series
tomorrow evening, 8pm, Circolo Arci
Arcobaleno, Metro Garbatella
Discussion on a Short Story (about a boxer who looses a match) in the English literature class at El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, California. Teacher Joan Cone. What cultural values are expressed by the turn-taking* procedures used spontaneously by the students?
Cultural Differences among Students – In class The stereotype of the White, middle-class American of Anglo descent versus the stereotype of the South-Central middle-class urbanized Italian. See here. Learning
a language – in this case, English – means acquiring
a will to mean that expresses a will to be shared
by some English speaking community. Thus, when we are speaking
English in class, we will be acting and thinking and feeling
things as we would in an American classroom (later, if time
allows, we will experiment doing things in a British, Australian,
Irish, Jamaican etc. way). Coming
late to lessons Chatting
during lessons This
is what YOU should think, feel and want
during the lesson, A
language like English is therefore not simply a code (words +
rules for combining them). A language can seem
like
a code because, from the standpoint of acoustics, people do use a
set of rules for signal/message conversion; and from the
standpoint of semiotics, people do use a set of signs in
lexical-syntactic opposition to each other. But this is only the
superficial aspect of language. If language were only
a
code, under normal conditions there would be no ambiguities or
misunderstandings or inventiveness. Talking would be a mere
bureaucratic function. “Task
1” (compito)
for Monday: For full
instructions, click on “Research Tasks” in the Main
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October 20 |
More
on “being in class”... Stereotypical
upper class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
(WASP) students |
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October 22 |
Discussion
of (a.) your comments on the film clip “Littering”
and (b.) your linguistic/attitudinal questions..
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October 27 |
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Warm-up: “Hey, Sarah Palin”. |
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October 29 |
Michael Moore's latest documentary (made in 2007 but just released) Slacker Uprising (il risveglio degli studenti menefreghisti) This Thursday, October 30th,
at 8 pm, U.S.
Citizens for Peace and Justice - Rome will
present Slacker
Uprising, a documentary film
that shows how Michael Moore, just before the last United States
Presidential election (2004), held rallies on college campuses
all across America, to convince college kids (who traditionally
boycott elections) that THEY
CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
With him: musicians and artists like Eddie Vedder, Steve Earle,
Roseanne Barr, Joan Baez, and Viggo Mortensen. The film shows
"the birth of a new political generation." |
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October 31 |
-- Photos of each group |
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November 3 |
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8 cultural dimensions: Which characterize stereotypical Americans
and Italians?
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November 7 |
-- The concept of
intercultural understanding
as
a “decentering”. (Love, too, is a decentering;
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November 12 |
-- Go over news (has everyone read all the news
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November 19 |
-- REGROUP (2 groups of 2 or 3 together, towards the front) -- Chinese and Arab lettori may interrupt lessons.
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November 21 |
Suresh
Canagarajah Negotiating the local
in English as a lingua franca qui.
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Italian school marking system: 0 |
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Points for each Task completed: 0 |
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Read the Recap of the lesson on
October 15th and be prepared to answer questions on the
concepts expressed.
Give
your paper to your group leader. (You should make a second copy
to keep in case the Group Leader looses yours.) Next Wednesday I
will explain to the group leaders how they are to evaluate your
work. For now the Group Leader must do only one thing: mark the
papers from 0 to 5 (see the values of each mark above) and select
what s/he considers to be the best paper (s/he should write
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Read
Appendix A:
GROUP
LEADERS (week 2): Use this form to mark the other students'
papers (as well as your own)> |
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Research task 2 –
due on SUB-GOAL A –
Learn how to ask for clarification as explained in Appendix
B HERE ARE THE CRITERIA
THAT I WILL USE IN EVALUATING THE MARKS THAT THE GROUP LEADER
GIVES> EMAIL PROBLEM? If you can't send your Group Leader your
audio/video files because your email service doesn't accept big
emails, |
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Task 3 due on
Wednesday, November 19th NOTE: Students who
are NOT able to come to the evening with Trinity College on
November 13th must find, on their own (per conto
proprio), American students
in Rome to interview exactly as they would have done on the
13th. They can find these students during the day at
American book stores, churches, etc. and, in the late afternoon
(“Happy Hour”, after 5 pm) in the pubs. For a list of
“lairs” where the Anglo community holes out, click
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