Academic year2016/17
CourseBANKING FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
Code099LL
Credits9
PeriodSemester 1
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| LINGUA INGLESE | L-LIN/12 | LEZIONI | 63 | |
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Knowledge
The student who successfully completes the course will be able to demonstrate a solid knowledge of the morpho-syntactic structures of English. He/She will have demonstrated the ability to use the terminology and communicative tools of specialised language, especially economic and business English, but also legal and technical English. The student will have developed both oral and written communication skills in order to be able to interact in professional contexts, make and receive telephone calls, introduce him-/her-self, socialise, present visual information, compile a CV, write a formal letter, a cover letter, an e-mail message, etc. Lastly, he/she will be able to read, understand, analyse and discuss written texts of specialised areas taken from newspapers focusing on international business, finance, economic and political news (The Economist, The Guardian) or from BBC news (Business section). At the end of the course, the student will have attained a B1 level of the CEFR.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
- In the written exam, the student must demonstrate his/her ability to understand a specialised text and its terminology. He/she must also demonstrate his/her knowledge of the grammatical structures and specialised vocabulary acquired during the course.
- In the oral exam, the student will be assessed on his/her ability to read, analyse and translate into Italian one of the specialised texts studied during the course. Furthermore, the student must demonstrate the ability to master the communicative skills developed during the course, i.e. introduce yourself in a job interview, describe your job benefits, make arrangements, make telephone calls, etc.
Methods:
- Final oral exam
- Final written exam
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- participation in discussions
- group work
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
Syllabus
The specific linguistic contents of the course include:
- Phonetic level: pronunciation of specialised terms;
- Morphology: Inflection (regular/irregular English plurals) and word-formation (derivation, composition, acronyms and similar abbreviations).
- Grammar/Syntax: Verb tenses (present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past perfect, futures); first/second/third conditional; modal verbs; phrasal verbs; active vs. passive voice; nouns (countable vs. uncountable); adjectives (comparative and superlative forms); definite, indefinite and no article; restrictive vs. non-restrictive relative clauses; direct vs. indirect speech.
- Semantics: Semantic fields; semantic collocations; semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, meronymy, hyponymy).
- Lexicon: Specialised vocabulary (business, economic, legal, technical, political); lexical collocations with specialised terms.
- Text: Textual cohesion (recurrence, parallelism) and coherence (logical connectors).
Bibliography
Required reading includes the following coursebook and material:
- Grant, David & Jane Hudson (2009) Business Result. Pre-intermediate Students' Book (Interactive Workbook on CD + Audio). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mattiello, Elisa (2014) The Popularisation of Business and Economic English in Online Newspapers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- A dispensa with specialised texts and exercises.
Further recommended reading, grammar books, dictionaries include:
- Anderson, Robin (2012) Working with Economic and Business English. Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN): Maggioli Editore.
- Murphy, Raymond (2004) English Grammar in Use: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English with Answers [with CD]. Third Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Monolingual dictionary (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Cobuild, Longman).
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