Lingua inglese ii (K02)

Assessment is exam-based. The final oral examination with the course subject professor will test both the throretical notions discussed during the course and the ability to apply suck knowledge to real communicative situations.
Pror to sitting the final exam, students will have to pass two preliminary language skills tests (written and oral).
The assessment procedure is organized as follows:
1. PRELIMINARY LANGUAGE SKILLS TESTS
1.a. Written test
The written test is composed of two parts.
The first part (40 minutes) involves writing a summary of an oral text on a legal, professional or institutional topic, of about 150-200 words) which students will listen to. The summary will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria: ability to grasp and synthesise text contents; ability to reformulate txt contents without altering or reducing them; grammatical correctness; variety and appropriateness of lexicon and phraseology used; textual cohesion. For this part a monolingual dictionary may be used.
The second part (30 minutes) involves the translation of a non technical legal text (e.g. an article on a topical legal issue or on a general problem having legal implications) of about 150 words published in the media, or downloaded from the Internet. For this part, a bilingual (Italian/English) dictionary may be used.

1.b. Speaking test: professional presentation
Argumentative oral presentation, lasting from 4 to 5 minutes (maximum), using slides or a presentation programme such as PPT. The student prepares and delivers a presentation on a topic dealt with in the course or in the language practice sessions. At the end of the presentation the student will be asked some questions, prompting further illustration of aspects of the presentation.

Only students who have taken both preliminary language skills tests (written and oral) successfully will be allowed to sit the oral exam.

2. ORAL EXAM
The final exam will consist in an oral exam with the course subject professors, who will award the final mark. Students will need to demonstrate proficient command of the language varieties and theoretical instruments taught in the course, and will need to demonstrate their ability to analyse and discuss legal case studies autonomously using appropriate analytical categories. They will also be tested on the technique of consecutive interpreting (oral or written translation from English into Italian of a monologic or dialogic legal text, e.g. a comment, a report, an interview, a court examination; the text will be read twice).

Part of the testing will be computer based. Computer-based interim tests will be administered at the end of each component of the course. Marks obtained in the interim tests will go towards the formulation of the final mark, which will be expressed with a mark out of 30.

Students who have not taken the computer-based interim tests will sit the same tests during regular exam sessions. The oral exam cannot be broken down into separate units (except in the case of interim tests, where part of the sullabus are tested separately).

Only students who have completed English 1 are allowed to sit the English 2 exam or any of the interim tests.

It is strongly recommended that student complete their English 1 exam by the September session.