Schema della sezione

  • Advanced Spoken English: World Englishes


    Dott.sa Richardson

    Monday 9-11  Aula 9, VC



    This course will held only in the 2nd Semester


    The course will examine Spoken English from both the active and the passive point of view, involving extensive work on producing speech, but also on listening to varieties of Spoken English. Intonation and Register will be investigated, as well as a review of Pronunciation with emphasis on phonemes which cause particular problems to non-native speakers. The concept of World Englishes will be examined as well looking in detail at examples of these including Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, Singapore English, Hong Kong English.
    Classwork will involve speaking activities and will go over in detail the elements required for Presentations. Students will be expected not only to participate fully (and willingly!) in these activities, but also to carry out preparation for them as Homework.

    The final assessment will be a Presentation relating to some aspect covered in the course.

    Students who miss more than two lessons need to do the Make Up Work before they can have a final mark for this course.

    There is no need to have followed the 1st semester course in Advanced Spoken English: Regional Varieties in order to follow this course, though obviously students are welcome to do so. This course is a discrete unit.

    First lesson Monday 24th February

    Please note that in accordance with the Decreto all lessons and office hours "in aula" are suspended with immediate effect and are being replaced with Distance Learning facilities. Please consult your teacher's Moodle page and the Unifi website for updated information from tomorrow (05.03.20). 

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    The next lesson(s) will be video lessons using the Google Meet system  (I'm learning it as fast as I can!) since it takes so much less time than both the methods I've tried so far and it looks as though we are in for Distance learning for some weeks to come .

    So keep 9 to 11 am free on Monday 23rd. You will receive via your unifi email an "invitation" to attend the lesson. Please reply to this and then use the code it contains to access the lesson at 9 am on Monday. NB it works via unifi mail so make sure you check your unifi mail regularly (which you should do any way!).

    Monday 9th March lesson =  ASE Lesson 3 Monday 9 March

    Monday 16th March Lesson 4 = 4 files of slides + 4 audio files with commentary: Parts 1, 2 3 and 4

    Monday 23rd March  Video lesson 9-11 am  held via  the University's Google Meet system, at the usual lesson time (9 to 11 am).  If you missed the lesson, send me an email and I'll let you have the link to the recording of the lesson so that you can watch it and catch up.

    Monday 30th March  Video lesson 9-11 am  held via  the University's Google Meet system, at the usual lesson time (9 to 11 am).  If you missed the lesson, send me an email and I'll let you have the link to the recording of the lesson so that you can watch it and catch up.

    Monday 20th April  Video lesson 9-11 am

    Monday 27th April  Video lesson 9-11 am

    Monday 4th May  Video lesson 9-11 am

    Monday 11th May  Video special Presentation Practice lesson 9-11 am


    Office hours: During the Distance Learning period, book an appointment for office hours (usual time) via email and I'll send you the access code link.