ID:
L0003
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
7
SSD:
LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Annuale (03/10/2025 - 31/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
In line with the educational objectives of the CdS, the course aims to provide a knowledge of the most complex grammatical, morphosyntactic and lexical structures of the English language in order to reach an advanced level of competence. The course will aim to consolidate the skills of comprehension, production and oral interaction, as well as to provide the appropriate tools for the critical analysis of literary and non literary texts in English, with particular attention to discourses about ecology.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students must demonstrate that they have reached B2+ competences, that they have acquired the necessary linguistic and communicative skills, that they are able to understand and analyse texts in English. Finally they must be able to apply their linguistic and methodological knowledge in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis.
Course Prerequisites
Students are required to have a deep knowledge of the English Language at a B2 Level, according to the European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in order to understand the concepts exposed during the course.
In order to undertake the exam, students must have passed English Language II (2nd year).
Teaching Methods
The course includes the following activities:
1) Lectures held by the professor starting from January 2026;
2) Teaching activities organized by the CEL of the University Language Centre, based on oral and written skills.
It is highly recommended to attend the CEL classes in order to achieve the language proficiency levels set by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The final exams with the CEL (both written and oral) will take place concurrently with the language exams held by the professor. All information regarding class schedules, exam procedures, and CEL office hours can be found on the University Language Centre’s website.
Assessment Methods
The final exam consists in a written test and an oral part. The written test will be as follows:
1) Multilevel analysis of a text and of its discursive strategies (style, contents, vocabulary, register, symbolic and rhetorical level, ideologies etc.)
2) Test of analytical skills, understanding and use of English at a B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with the CEL.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
The written test is to be assessed in thirtieths, and the results will be published on the Department website. The final mark will be given after an oral test, to be taken in English, on the subjects discussed during the course. To access the final oral test students must have passed the written exam. Online registration is mandatory for both tests (via the ESSE 3 online platform).
Written exams are held on a regular basis only once for each exam session; oral tests take place twice for each of the three sessions (summer, autumn, additional). Students who reach a solid linguistic and metalinguistic competence will obtain an excellent evaluation.
Texts
Arran Stibbe, Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, 2nd ed., London and New York, 2021;
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 2 volls, Oxford University Press is recommended.
Further material will be provided during the course.
Contents
APPROACHING ECOLINGUISTICS
This course aims to investigate the relationships between language, ecology, and society, apply ecolinguistic theory to contemporary ecological issues, and explore examples of discourses produced within the media, politics, literature, and by social movements. The course will introduce key theories in ecolinguistics, and through the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis students will be shown how language constructs reality, and how it responds to and engages with ecological systems. Additionally, the course will address ethical issues related to language use and ecological responsibility, promoting sustainable communication strategies.
This course provides a theoretical framework and practical tools for revealing how the dominant discourses of our unsustainable industrial civilization promote ecologically destructive behaviour. Students will analyse a wide range of texts from advertisements to newspaper articles and lifestyle magazines, from political speeches and economics textbooks to literary texts. In each case, the question is whether the stories that underlie texts allow us to identify consumerist and destructive discourses, or encourage us to care about people and the ecosystems. Part of the course will therefore consider the theoretical and practical issues in order to conduct what J. R. Martin defines as Positive Discourse Analysis within ecolinguistics
The course is based on Arran Stibbe’s Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By, Routledge, 2021) .It describes eight types of ‘stories we live by’: ideologies, framings, metaphors, evaluations, identities, convictions, erasure and salience. These stories are cognitive, as they belong to people’s mind, but they also manifest themselves in distinctive patterns of language. The aim of ecolinguistics is to analyse these patterns, reveal the ‘stories we live by’, and open them to a critical investigation.
Course Language
English
More information
Non-attending students are invited to contact the professor before the final exam.
Degrees
Degrees
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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