ITALIAN
How I can help you with your (serious) Italian studies:
The following list has been compiled from over 15 years’ personal experience as Tutor in London:
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Common Entrance (UK private schools) and School entrance exams, at 11, 13 or 16. Proven success (all students were accepted by the private school of their choice)
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GCSE and IGCSE (UK public exams). IB Middle Years Programme. American School Program (Middle School).
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A level, International A level, Pre-U, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP), American AP Spanish Language and Culture exam. Italian for the French Baccalauréat.
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University Level: Essay and Dissertation correction and research:
Dante and Beatrice: unrequited, distant love
Representation of historical change in post-war Italian cinema
Gli Anni Di Piombo
Dante’s Purgatorio: plot and major characters
Aspetti della società trecentesca criticati da Dante nell’Inferno
Petrarch’s Canzoniere and religion
Fosse Ardeatine and Fascist Monuments
Help with translations and oral exams
Italian Linguistics
Morphology and Clitic pronouns
Third language acquisition and bilingualism
The passive in Romance languages
Complementisers and adjuncts in English
Child language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis
Code-switching and discourse analysis
The structure of infinitival IP
Minimalist Syntax (as per Radford and Haegeman)
Own thesis can be found via UCL library:
Title:
Functional categories and SPEC-head agreement
Author: Emilce Sandra. Rees
Creation Date: 1994
Format: 208 leaves.
Language: English
Notes: ■ Thesis: (MPhil) University College London, 1994
Phonetics
Optimality Theory
Phonological theory (all study levels)
IPA : place and manner of articulation
IPA: phonetic script and pronunciation
Suprasegmentals
VOT and measurements
Translation
All levels, as part of the syllabus (eg A level exam) or as part of your University course.
15 May 2021