Il corso sarà incentrato principalmente sull’uso funzionale della lingua e sul lessico specialistico in ambito accademico e professionale attraverso l’analisi di testi e materiale audiovisivo autentici e la consultazione di corpora linguistici dedicati. Le attività didattiche comprendono un’ampia gamma di attività di speaking, listening, writing e reading legate ai seguenti temi:

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
How to prepare a proposal for a review article
introducing work
referring to sources
describing methods
reporting results
discussing findings
writing conclusions
How to write a review article that people will read
How to create conference papers and present them at a conference

FOCUS ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
The Neuropsychological Evaluation Report
A guide to neuropsychological report writing
Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Theory of Mind Development (APA Journals)

PRESENTATION OF ACADEMIC PAPERS AND/OR CASE STUDIES (bibliografia esemplificativa a.a. 2020-2021)
 SVOBODA, E., & RICHARDS, B. (2009). Compensating for anterograde amnesia: A new training method that capitalizes on emerging smartphone technologies. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 15(4), 629-638. doi:10.1017/S1355617709090791
 XIONG J, LIPSITZ O, NASRI F, LUI LMW, GILL H, PHAN L, CHEN-LI D, IACOBUCCI M, HO R, MAJEED A, MCINTYRE RS. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population: A systematic review. J Affect Disord. 2020 Dec 1;277:55-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.001. Epub 2020 Aug 8. PMID: 32799105; PMCID: PMC7413844.
 WANG H, LI T, BARBARINO P, GAUTHIER S, BRODATY H, MOLINUEVO JL, XIE H, SUN Y, YU E, TANG Y, WEIDNER W, YU X. Dementia care during COVID-19. Lancet. 2020 Apr 11;395(10231):1190-1191. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30755-8. Epub 2020 Mar 30. PMID: 32240625; PMCID: PMC7146671.
 HUTCHINSON AD, MATHIAS J. Neuropsychological deficits in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analytic review, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2007;78:917-928.