ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Grammatical, morphological and lexical analysis of texts relevant to the field of psychological studies; reading comprehension activities focusing on the basic scientific lexicon on psychology, particularly With reference to the following topics:

- A brief history of psychology; Psychology/Psychologies

- Clinical and abnormal psychology: types of psychotherapy

- General psychology - Developmental psychology

- Perspectives on Psychology: Freud, Piaget, Bruner, Gardner.

Grammar and language skills:

– M. Swan, C. Walter, D. Bertocchi, The Good Grammar Book forItalian Students, Oxford U.P., 2007 (reference grammar)

- M. Hancock, A. McDonald, English Result, Elementary, Oxford,2008. With reference to this part of the course (lettorato), students are invited to view the relative detailed programme published on the Departmen website (Materiale didattico/Programmi lettorato lingua inglese) Monographic course:

− S. Porro, English for Psychological Studies, Celid, Torino 2009,pp. 7-42

- Mandatory course-reader: a supplementary course-reader, representing an integrated part of the oral exam requirements, will be made available for students at the beginning of the course. All students are required to study and be able to discuss the reader contents in order to pass their oral exam.

Reader contents:

Perspectives on Psychology: S. Freud, J. Piaget, J. S. Bruner, H. Gardner (about 30 pages)