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Teacher
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GRAZIANO Alba
(syllabus)
TITLE: English in use: a grammar for communication
The course requires students to reflect on their English learning process at school and outside, with particular focus to their attitudes and descriptions of the English grammar. Then different historical ways of approaching the description of the language system will be introduced and finally the communicative/functional grammar. The main areas of contrast betweeen Italian and English will be dealt with through this approach (verb system, concept of mass and of defining/non-defining, word order, word formation, modality, etc.).
(reference books)
Geoffrey Leech - Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English, Longman
Ronald Carter - Michael McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English, CUP.
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