Programma
ENGLISH FOR CORPORATE COMMUNICATION 2025-2026
Corso magistrale-Organizzazione e marketing per la comunicazione d'impresa
Esame a scelta: 6 cfu
Docente: Silvia Polsinelli- classroom code 753t7vjw
Email: silvia.polsinelli@uniroma1.it
Ricevimento: Online- google meet – a richiesta dello studente
Orari: Mercoledi dalle 14 alle 16- venerdi dalle 16 alle 18 aula blu 3 e 5- 48 ore totali
Esonero scritto durante il corso- scrivere una cover letter
Esame: orale in coppie sugli argomenti svolti durante il corso.
Materiale: slide fornite dal docente- testo di riferimento Business Result Advanced second edition,
K.Blade,C.Holloway, J.Hughes, J.Scrivener and R.Turner, Oxford University Press
Learning objectives:
The overall objective of the course is to build and improve students' skills in workplace discourse, in corporate and
institutional contexts. The course focuses on the theoretical knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to communicate
in corporate contexts at multiple levels and through various genres and types of written and spoken English texts.
Students will work on the analysis of different types of business texts, both written (e.g cover letter, CVs) and oral (e.g.,
business meetings, job interviews,), with the aim of consolidating the knowledge acquired during the course. The focus
will be on the specialized language of business texts, their structure, audience, and purpose. By the end of the course,
students should have gained an awareness of workplace language, its norms, and practices. By the end of the course,
students are expected to use English at C1 level in both written and oral texts. Students should have a solid B2 in order
to fully grasp the objective of the course.
Overall goals:
Students are expected to:
1)Describe cross-cultural experiences, report back on research, use tenses appropriately, introduce themselves to a
group. Past and perfect tenses.
2)Talk about career paths, manage the discussion in a meeting and share ideas.
3)Discuss working practices, give a formal presentation, speculate about future changes- future tenses
4) Write a cover letter following a specific structure. The cover letter is part of the esonero done during the middle of the
course.
5)Talk about team relationships, deal with conflict in negotiations, respond to feedback. Adding emphasis and inversion
to stress the meaning
6)Talk about training and learning, use communication strategies on the phone, use participle clauses and “the future in
the past” appropriately.
7)Express dissatisfaction, talk about employer/employee expectations, deal with difficult questions.
8)Talk about resources, discuss options and reach decisions in meetings, use conditionals effectively, deal with
misunderstandings.
9)Talk about leadership styles, negotiation, distancing from information. Distancing verbs
10)Talk about persuasion, give a presentation to sell an idea, use discourse markers appropriately, give and respond to
compliments.
Language proficiency: ability to understand complex texts and speeches also with interactive activities: Ted
Talks, films, podcast. Talking about current affairs. Grasping nuances and implicit meanings.
Fluent communication: ability to express oneself spontaneously and confidently on a wide range of topics.
Prerequisiti
Indispensabile che chi sceglie di frequentare il corso avanzato di English for Corporate Communication abbia un solido B1/B2 per poter affrontare i contenuti del corso. Il livello di uscita è un C1
Testi di riferimento
Materiale: slide fornite dal docente-
testo di riferimento Business Result Advanced second edition,
K.Blade,C.Holloway, J.Hughes, J.Scrivener and R.Turner, Oxford University Press
Frequenza
La frequenza non è obbligatoria ma fortemente consigliata trattandosi di un livello avanzato (C1)
Modalità di esame
Durante il corso ci sarà un esonero in cui ci sarà la redazione di un testo formale di circa 150-200 parole. (una cover letter).
L'esame orale sarà a coppie e verterà sui contenuti del testo adottato e gli argomenti affrontati durante il corso. Si verrà valutati su:
Fluency, grammatica, accuratezza della scelta del vocabolo, scelta di un registro formale e informale, analisi di un testo di business.
