Il corso consta di 6 crediti al primo anno del cds in Economia Informatica per l’Impresa suddivisi in ore di lezioni frontali ed esercitazioni, divisi in 2 CFU per la lingua inglese e 4 CFU per l’inglese specialistici dell’economia.
Il livello di partenza sarà quello del B2 del Common European Framework (CEFR) per arrivare al C1.
Il programma sarà improntato al ripasso delle funzioni linguistiche e delle strutture grammaticali e all’introduzione del linguaggio attinente alla microlingua economica e dell’informatica.
Per l’esame finale di lingua inglese, gli studenti dovranno infatti, sostenere un test scritto volto a verificare le abilità di reading di primo e secondo livello, la codifica di un writing, nonché la risoluzione di tasks grammaticali, ed una performance orale dove con fluency ed accuracy gli stessi riferiranno di argomenti economici, informatici, dell’impresa (e non solo) trattati nel corso.

Il programma sarà adeguato alle conoscenze e competenze acquisite dagli studenti nel corso dei loro studi scolastici e verificate durante le prime lezioni con un entry test.

Verranno ripassate tutte le funzioni e le strutture grammaticali di ciascuna unit presente nel testo di
S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello.

La parte relativa all’inglese tecnico-scientifico mira a far acquisire agli studenti una conoscenza di base dell’inglese economico attraverso letture mirate ed esercizi sui prefissi e suffissi, phrasal verbs, compound nouns, acronyms e le differenze grammaticali, di pronuncia e di spelling tra il British English e l’American English non solo nello spelling, pronunciation ma soprattutto lessicali di base e specialistico in campo economico.
Particolare attenzione sarà data ai processi di nominalizzazione (preferenza sull’uso di un nome, anziché di un verbo per esprimere le azioni e i concetti), passivizzazione (uso frequente del passivo), spostamento a sinistra nella costruzione delle frasi con abolizione delle relative (sinteticità espressiva), così caratteristici dell’inglese tecnico-scientifico ed evidenziati da insigni studiosi della materia.
Pertanto le letture su cui gli studenti riferiranno all’orale e di carattere esclusivamente economico ed informatico saranno quelle contenute nelle units dei seguenti testi:

i Eric H Glendinning, John McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGeQO7ROwE4 audio CD

ii S R Estesas, E M Fabrè, Professional English in Use , ICT for Computetrs and The Internet, Cambridge edition – ONLINE

ììi Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level- course book -Longman-Person and The Economist

iv Gli effetti della globalizzazione sulla lingua inglese verranno messi in evidenza dall’analisi del Prof Crystal
D Crystal, English as a Global Language – 1st and 2nd prefaces + 1st chapter – Paper Version oppure through a video course:

Programma Dettagliato:
A Essential strategies and procedures to analyse a case study
Reading skills - pre-reading activities; skimming, scanning, intensive and extensive reading.
Efficient reading strategies
Essential definition for what a text is - part I (understanding different types of text)
First step- what a text is - part II (Identifying texts and purposes)
Factual text Analysis
Types of text –Identifying purpose and text convention
Jacobson theory of Communication (sender, message, receive and code)
Graphs
Linkers or Connectors
Writing a summary
Further texts present in scrambled order in the file
Tokyo/Karoshi: 1 in block style 2 in Indented style 3 in column version
CCTV surveillance system

B Programma dettagliato inerente il libro di testo sull’economia:
Graham Tullis, Tonya Trappe, Intelligent Business, intermediate level-course book -Longman-Person.
Unit 1 Companies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Survival of the fittest and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
 A matter of choice
 Will the corporation survive
Unit 2 Leadership
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Terrorising the talent and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
 When to terrorise talent
 The art of Delegation
 We don’t need managers we manage ourselves!
Unit 3 Strategy
Comment and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts: comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The big picture
 S.W.O.T. Analysis
 Nike’s Goddess
 Breaking into a new market
Unit 4 Pay
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Because I’m worth it and then refer orally in fluent English about he following texts:
 The rewards of failure
Unit 5 Development
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Prosperity or preservation? Then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Gas for Peru V green imperialism
Unit 6 Marketing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Seducing the masses and then refer orally in fluent English about6 the following texts:
 Money can buy you love
 Saying ‘I do’ to the marketers
Unit 7 Outsourcing
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The great job migration and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
 The new global shift
Unit 10 Counterfeiting
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: The globalisation of deceit and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Imitating property is theft
Unit 12 Lobbies
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Finding a voice and then refer orally in fluent English the following texts:
 Of celebrities, charity and trade
 The new networked lobbies
Unit 13 Communication
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Messaging meltdown and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
 Coping with infoglut
Unit 15 Innovation
Comment the cover of the magazine ‘The Economist’: Pushing the limits and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
 Failure is glorious

C) Programma dettagliato inerente il libro di testo di carattere informatico:
Eric H Glendinning, John McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP
Comprehend, analyse and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
Unit 1 Computers make the world smaller and smaller p 8-9
Unit 2 Cache memory p 16-17
Unit 3
 Computer Applications - Reading n 2 on p 18-19
 Data Mining p 22- 23
Unit 4 Ready for the Bazillion-Byte Drive? p 30-31
Unit 6
 Operating system reading n 2 p 36
 Operating Systems: Hidden Software p 37
 LINUX p 42-43
Unit 8
 Application Programs Reading n 4 p 54
 Application Service Providers p 58-59
Unit 11
 Networks –Starter n 1 and n 2
 Reading n 3 p c 73
 Network Communications p 78-79

D) S R Estesas, E M Fabrè, Professional English in Use , ICT for Computetrs and The Internet, Cambridge edition – ONLINE
Comprehend, analyse and then refer orally in fluent English about the following texts:
Unit 8 Processing
Unit 10 Healty and safety
Unit 12 Word Processing features
Unit 17 programming
Unit 21 Faces of Internet
Unit 22 Email
Unit 23 The World Wide Web
Unit 26 The internet security
Unit 27 E-commerce
Unit 30 Robot, androids, AI
Unit 31 Intelligent homes

E) Linguistics through a video course
Another innovative feature of Global: Global English with Professor David Crystal.
interview with D Crystal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GMlpAdVok
English as a Global Language
Global English with David Crystal – YouTube
Varieties of English in
David Crystal - World Englishes – YouTube
What will be the future of English as a global language in:
David Crystal - Will English Always Be the Global ... – YouTube
David Crystal - The Effect of New Technologies on English
https://www.youtube.com
David Crystal - How is the internet changing language today?
https://www.youtube.com

F) S. Perez, M. Solly, Communicative Grammar and Practice, Il Capitello
Detailed Grammar programme

Analysing the English sentence
The main parts of a sentence
To be; subject pronouns; demonstratives
To have – possession -
Possessives, reflexives, interrogatives
The Present Continuous
The Present Simple
Prepositions of Place and Time
The Imperative
The Future - four different ways to express the idea of future -
Past simple and past continuous
Present perfect and past perfect
The noun
Articles
Adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives
Indefinite pronouns and adjectives
Interrogative pronouns and adjectives
Conditional sentences and if clauses
The duration form
The passive voice
The subjunctive
Connectors
Direct and reported speech