TEST RESULTS for C2 (Dec 2015)

RESULTS OF THE DECEMBER MID-COURSE TEST

While some of the results were satisfactory and some students produced some interesting work, even those who managed to achieve a pass mark made a number of mistakes when being tested on structures which had been taught during the course.

The results of the exercises where students were required to write short paragraphs in English containing the information given in an Italian prompt were disappointing. Far too many people followed the Italian original in a pedestrian manner; the consequent answer was predictably poor. I shall give some examples here below during the next few days.

The results are given in numerical order according to class numbers. All marks are out of 30. Please remember that these need not reflect negatively upon your final results but that they are an indication of what needs to to improve. Those who got less than 20/30 need to work very hard on improving their English grammar and their mental flexibility when thinking in a second language.  This is the final year of a university course and not a secondary school. My impression is that the two hours private study for every one hour in the classroom was not done. Take up your grammar books before the start of the course in March and start some hard study of basic English.

1: 20; 2: 19-; 3: 22; 4: 09; 5: 16; 6: 25; 7: 26-; 8: 18; 

10: 23;11: 19; 12: 24; 13: 23; 14: 21; 15: 20; 16: 11; 17: 12; 18: 16; 19: 17;

20: 23; 21: 25; 23: 21; 24: 21; 25: 19; 26: 23; 27: 09;

30: 19; 32: 19-; 33: 17; 34: 23; 36: 15; 37: 16; 38: 20-; 39: 22;

40: 23; 41: 15; 41: 20; 43: 16; 44: 18-; 46: 12; 47: 21; 48: 21; 49: 23;

50: 17; 51: 13; 53: 08; 54: 19; 55: 15; 56: 21; 57: 16; 58: 13; 59: 19;

60: 23; 61: 15; 62: 19; 63: 20; 64: 12; 65: 17; 66: 22; 67: 19-; 68: 25;

70: 17; 73: 18; 74: 16; 75: 21; 76: 23; 79: 13;

80: 14; 83: 27; 85: 18-; 86: 21; 87: 19; 88: 15.

Those students who took the mid-course test without having completed the 2nd year lingua & lettorato exam, must complete it during the coming Winter session of examinations for this mark to be valid. Those few members of the course who were absent for the test will need a very good excuse ready for the beginning of the 2nd semester.

SCRITTI III ANNO (sessione invernale)

LINGUA INGLESE 

ESAMI SCRITTI DI LETTORATO

 GENNAIO 2016

RESULTS OF WRITTEN EXAM

COGNOME	NOME	C.L.	MATRIC	ESITO	ORALE
ABDIPOUR	ATEFEH	LLM	1272629	INSUFF
ALIKO	ERGYS	LCMM	1071198	INSUFF
AMMOSCATO	CHIARA		1219458.	INSUFF
AZZARO	ALESSANDRA	LCLT	1482084	20	3/2
BOLANOS	TAKASHI F.	LCLT	1559109	INSUFF
BOZZELLI	FAUSTA	LCLT	1551741	18	3/2
CAL0’	ELISABETTA	LCLT	1138395	INSUFF
CARATELLI	MICAELA	LCLT	1527904	21	29/1
CARBONI	CRISTINA	ML	1167900	INSUFF
CARPINETI	ISABELLA	LCLT	1330417	19	29/1
CENCI	MANUEL	LCLT	1565184	21	3/2
CHICHKINE	CATERINA	LCLT	1562114	18	3/2
CONDORELLI	VITTORIA	LCLT	1542248	18	3/2
CORBO	FRANCESCO	LCLT	1494042	INSUFF
D’EMILIA	PRISCILLA		1279636	18	WARDLE
DE MASI	ILARIA	LCLT	1397999	18	3/2
DE ROSA	PAMELA	LCMM	959997	INSUFF
DESIDERATI	ROBERTA	LCMM	1403153	18/30	29/1
DI CRISTINA	FABIANA	LCLT	1560725	INSUFF
DI TULLIO	AMBRA	MLC	1157113	INSUFF
FANTINI	GIANLUCA	LCLT	1532419	INSUFF
FARINA	FRANCESCA	MLC	1316929	21/30	WARDLE
FAVARETTO	MARINA	LCLT	1466088	INSUFF
FERRARO	SONIA	LLCT	1564381	18/30	3/2
FORTUNA	LUANA	LCLT	1465938	INSUFF
GAGLIARDI	CHIARA	LCLT	1457959	18/30	3/2
GIADANS	MELANI N.	LCLT	1553816	INSUFF
GIORDANO	ALESSANDRA	LCLT	1553701	INSUFF
GONNELLA	M. TERESA	LCLT	1528958	18/30	3/2
GUGLIOTTA	ANGELA	LCLT	1541469	INSUFF
KHALIL	PETRA	LCLT	1561039	22/30	3/2
LABELLA	GIORGIO	MLC	1282259	INSUFF
LANCIA	FLAVIA	LCLT	1457465	18/30	3/2
LEONE	ELISA	LCLT	1385125	INSUFF
LEOPARDI	TIMUR	LCLT	1404385	19/30	29/1
LOBREGLIO	ANTONIETTA	LCLT	1549571	INSUFF
MIRABELLA	LETIZIA	LCMM	1319174	INSUFF
PALAORO	ERICA	LCLT	1564441	18/30	3/2
PENTA	GIADA	MLC	1216418	INSUFF
POP	NARCISA	LCLT	1491720	INSUFF
PROIETTI	FEDERICA	LCLT	1493865	18/30	3/2
PULICANI	VALENTINA	MLC	1284574	INSUFF
SABATINO	NADIA	LCLT	1498645,	INSUFF
SALVO	SONIA	MLC	1342120	INSUFF
SANTELLI	CARLOTTA	MLC	1228638	INSUFF
TARTAGLIA	SARA	MLC	1093554	INSUFF
USTIMENKO	TATIANA	LCLT	1596480	INSUFF
VAHDAT	PARVIN		1452307	INSUFF
VESCOVO	LUCREZIA	LCLT	1501253	INSUFF

As stated during the written test, those students who stated they were "LAUREANDI" in March will do their examination on Friday 29th January at 10.30. The remaining students who have to do the exam with the lettore will do it on Wednesday 3rd February at 10.30. The candidate who has to complete the examination with prof. Wardle should contact her by email.

PLEASE REMEMBER that the oral part of the examination MUST be completed within this session of the exams, otherwise the written part has to be retaken. Also remember that the oral part of the exam must be studied adequately and passed in order to be valid.

EXAM on 3rd Feb.

Aula III @ 10.30

Those students who failed may see their papers at the following times:

De Rosa, Di Cristina, Di Tullio, Leone, Vescovo – Friday, 29^th January, 10,30 – 12,30

                                Wednesday, 3^rd February, 10,30 -12,30      

or during subsequent ricevimento hours

It is incredible to me that there are still students asking about the oral examination (unable to scroll down and find the instructions in earlier posts). They are expected to have prepared for this in advance and not at the last minute. I repeat that if this part of the exam is inadequate and if they fail to pass it, then the whole of the exam will have to be taken again. Understanding instructions is a part of the examination.

ORAL EXAM FORMAT

LLM ,LCMM and those MLC students who enrolled at university before 2007.

Do an oral exam with a lettore as part of lettorato . You should choose a news story taken from the English newspapers in the week before the exam, and bring an article on it taken from both a qualitybroadsheet newspaper and a popular tabloid for purposes of comparative discussion. Please bring the newspaper articles themselves as well as a photocopy of them. Do not download the articles from the internet.

L.L.M. students ( NOT M.L.C.) may choose one of the novels from the list below to read and comment on as preparation for  their oral exam :

• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• The Secret Scriptures, Sebastian Barry
• The Uncommon Reader, Alan  Bennett
• Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd
• Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
• Brooklyn, Colm Toìbin

THOSE STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE THIS KIND OF EXAMINATION MUST BRING THE NOVEL TO THE EXAM

CURRENT DATE: 17th January 2017

TIME NOW: 13:10

ENROLMENT FOR THIS EXAM IS CLOSED

(see rules below)

 III ANNO - L.T. LINGUE E MEDIAZIONE     

Vecchissimo ordinamento
& Laurea Quadriennale - III & IV anno

mercoledì 20 gennaio. Ore 15,00. 

Aule da destinarsi  

Si prenota per l'esame scritto via email. 

Studenti con i cognomi A-C   peterson.more@yahoo.com   

Studenti con i cognomi D –M   wilsonsapienza@libero.it  

Studenti con i cognomi  N-Z  maria.hillan@uniroma1.it

Specificare Cognome, nome, numero  di  matricola e corso  di  laurea. 

Ogni email di prenotazione avrà una risposta che dovrà essere stampata e portata all'esame insieme al "libretto giallo" o la pagina "infostud" che attesta il superamento del II anno di lingua e lettorato.

Si prenota l'esame esclusivamente

dal giorno 3  al giorno 17 gennaio 

entro le ore 13.00 e non oltre.

Non sarà possibile accettare prenotazioni che saranno inviate al di fuori del periodo delle 2 settimane previste ed oltre l'orario indicato. 

Tali prenotazioni non avranno risposta e non potranno essere accettate.

 INFORMATION, RULES & ADVICE regarding 

ENGLISH LETTORATO EXAMINATIONS

1) Do not listen to student gossip about the exams but ask the teachers responsible (Hillan, Peterson-More & Wilson) directly. Then you will not be misinformed.

2) The examination will be set according to the bibliography published both on our blogs and in the department at the beginning of the academic year. The examining commission will mark it according to the same criteria.

3) With the exception of Italian/mother-tongue bilingual dictionaries which may be used by non-Italian native speakers - not including English native speakers, NO DICTIONARIES may be used during the first GRAMMAR section of the exam. Monolingual ENGLISH DICTIONARIES may be used for the COMPOSITION PAPER. These dictionaries, brought by the students, MUST BE CLEAN (with no notes written in them, nor hiding any papers) and they will be checked during the examination (the "borrowed from a friend syndrome" is no excuse). Cheating in university exams is an offence.

4) Candidates for the examination MUST HAVE PASSED THE 2nd year examination and BRING PROOF (the yellow card if possible, or the verbalino) that they have done so. They should also bring proof of identity and their matriculation number.

5) NO PENCILS are allowed on the desks. ANYTHING WRITTEN IN PENCIL WILL BE INVALID. We suggest that candidates write on alternate lines to give them space for corrections and alterations in their text. Clarity is important, not tidiness.

6) NO MOBILE PHONES or other electronic gadgets are allowed during the examination.
BRING A WRIST OR POCKET WATCH so that you can keep an eye on the time and organise your work properly (see point 7).

7) Give yourselves enough time to read through and make alterations at the end. In other words, PLAN your work. When the time has finished it is finished and "STOP WRITING" means stop.

8) READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.

9) Remember that this is the III and Final written English language examination before graduating in languages. It is at University Degree level. Whatever you choose to write, it must be in good and comprehensible English and you must answer the questions printed on the examination papers (i.e. not be prepared in advance on general topics).

10) Remember that your examiners want you to show the best you can do and they want you to pass the examination with a high mark. Therefore it is a good idea only to take the examination when you feel you are ready to do so and not as if it were a lottery.
Remember also, it is the candidate who passes an exam or the candidate who fails an exam, not the examiner, who simply checks what has been written.

III year course

BIBLIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN & ORAL EXAMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY III year &c.

PROGRAMME: The course aims to further develop the four skills to C1 level with particular emphasis on writing, the comparative analysis of the Italian and English grammar systems and discourse analysis being its main components. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to apply their grammar knowledge to producing correct English versions of Italian texts, completing cloze texts and structural transformation exercises. They will also write a brief essay based on the linguistic analysis of an advertisement. Sixteen hours of self-study listening tasks in the language laboratory are compulsory. Students are expected to do aconsiderable amount of work as preparation for lessons. Every two-hour lesson requires at least two hours of preparation as private study. Students will also be required to complete 2 assignments, one in the first and one in the second semester. To be eligible for the exemption test 75%of lessons must be attended. Please consult blogs for a more detailed description of the course and the exam format.

Mastering Advanced English Language, Sara Thorne. Palgrave. ( selected chapters)
Practical English Usage, Third Edition, Michael Swan. O.U.P.

Grammar Scan, Swan & Baker. O.U.P.
Oxford Word Skills, Advanced, Ruth Gairns and Stuart Redman. O.U.P. (selected chapters)
DictionariesA good dictionary is a basic study aid. The texts below are recommended :
Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary, Collins. Glasgow
Concise Oxford Dictionary , Oxford. O.U.P.
Further material will be distributed during lessons.
A hand-out containing past exam papers for practice is available on request at the department/photocopy centre for those students who do not attend lessons. These students are strongly advised to follow the blogs on a regular basis to have further information about the bibliography and exam format.