Here are the guidelines for the final, oral exam:
- It is a project pitch for the service "My Creative English."
- You and your team members will have to think of, and explain the branding for that service. This includes what kind of form it will be. For example, you may decide that an App is the best, or a YouTube channel, or a website. This is one element you have to define.
- Define the target: most obviously, it is for IED students...on all campuses, internationally.
- In addition to the oral project pitch with a PowerPoint presentation (10 slides, 12-15 minutes), you will have to write the Project Brief.
Here is the 'Client Brief':
Where are we now? Currently, the IED Roma departments have only two departments that offer English language courses that are geared for professional English. These two departments are Comunicazione and Moda. As far as I know, no other IED program in Rome offers specialized professional English. I do not know if other IED campuses, in Italy and abroad, offer such English courses.
With this in mind, I think it's important to underline that the English courses currently offered by Comunicazione and Moda are "English for Specific Purposes;" that means that they are courses specifically designed to teach special terminology, and workplace English while dealing with topics directly concerning Comunicazione (Communications) and Moda (Fashion).
As students of Comunicazione, you are familiar with the type of professional English we are dealing with in our courses. You might like to know that for the English for Fashion course (a corso a scelta), there is a dedicated book which I published with Oxford University Press, and which is titled English for The Fashion Industry, by Mary E. Ward. Still, there is need for online support, especially in the areas of writing, sentence boundaries, pronunciation, etc.
Where do we want to be? This is a good question as it has never been discussed across departments, nor campuses. English has never been used as a promotional tool, with the exception of the Open Day in 2017, for IED courses. It could be part of the promotional package for potential, in-course, and recently graduated students. All types of students could promote IED via word of mouth based on interaction with the IED service "My Creative English."
What are we doing to get there? As you know, I currently have several online blog platforms to provide a direct line of communication with students. Other than that, I am working on my own website.
Wo do we need to talk to? Potential students, in-course students, and recently graduated students, and possibly potential master's program students.
How will we know when we've arrived? Maybe via feedback from users; perhaps we could ask students how they heard of "My Creative English."
Background: After 10 years of teaching professional English at the IED Roma campus for the Comunicazione and Moda departments, the instructor saw a need to give students a tool they could use 24/7. Based on her years of teaching, the instructor outlined the following areas as those that most commonly need attention:
Where are we now? Currently, the IED Roma departments have only two departments that offer English language courses that are geared for professional English. These two departments are Comunicazione and Moda. As far as I know, no other IED program in Rome offers specialized professional English. I do not know if other IED campuses, in Italy and abroad, offer such English courses.
With this in mind, I think it's important to underline that the English courses currently offered by Comunicazione and Moda are "English for Specific Purposes;" that means that they are courses specifically designed to teach special terminology, and workplace English while dealing with topics directly concerning Comunicazione (Communications) and Moda (Fashion).
As students of Comunicazione, you are familiar with the type of professional English we are dealing with in our courses. You might like to know that for the English for Fashion course (a corso a scelta), there is a dedicated book which I published with Oxford University Press, and which is titled English for The Fashion Industry, by Mary E. Ward. Still, there is need for online support, especially in the areas of writing, sentence boundaries, pronunciation, etc.
Where do we want to be? This is a good question as it has never been discussed across departments, nor campuses. English has never been used as a promotional tool, with the exception of the Open Day in 2017, for IED courses. It could be part of the promotional package for potential, in-course, and recently graduated students. All types of students could promote IED via word of mouth based on interaction with the IED service "My Creative English."
What are we doing to get there? As you know, I currently have several online blog platforms to provide a direct line of communication with students. Other than that, I am working on my own website.
Wo do we need to talk to? Potential students, in-course students, and recently graduated students, and possibly potential master's program students.
How will we know when we've arrived? Maybe via feedback from users; perhaps we could ask students how they heard of "My Creative English."
Background: After 10 years of teaching professional English at the IED Roma campus for the Comunicazione and Moda departments, the instructor saw a need to give students a tool they could use 24/7. Based on her years of teaching, the instructor outlined the following areas as those that most commonly need attention:
Social and Online Media: get the verb and image description right
Branding Vocabulary: get the story line and example right
Lost, and Found, in Translation: how to avoid direct translation, and clarifying if borrowed English words in Italian, such as ‘lo shooting’ are correct or not. This is an extremely important area if our graduates are to work internationally; ‘lo shooting’ in an English context means ‘sparatoia’ (!) and not ‘photo shoot’ as it should.
Project Pitches: get the expression & slide design right.
Pronunciation: especially relaxed vowels, word stress, when and where to pronounce [s] and [z], if ‘gh’ should be pronounced or not.
Objective: Provide potential, in-course, and recently graduated IED students with a digital language tool that will help them with professional English. It could be considered as part of a professional 'tool kit.'
Brand: IED Comunicazione, Moda departments...but other departments may be included, if they like.
Communications Objective: IED Professional English will be there for you, whenever you need it.
Target Audience: Primary: IED Roma Comunicazione/Moda students in 1st, 2nd, 3rd years, and Master's students. Secondary: IED students in other departments in Rome, and on all other campuses in Italy and abroad.
Key Message: Confused about English? Fear not. My Creative English will help you shape your messages correctly.
Consumer Takeaway: Resource at their fingertips. No confusion as to where to find an authoritative voice on what's correct and what's not. Reassurance they can produce clear English.
Tone of Voice: Friendly, helpful, professional.
Timing: flexible: to be decided.
Budget: no budget
Response Mechanism: users register to use the tool and have to say at which IED campus and department they're studying.
Evaluation/Success criteria: Itinerant voluntary survey, possibly via SurveyMonkey.
Mandatories/guidelines: IED logo (s), copyright of teacher-generated materials.
Approvals: Lorenzo Terragna, Patrizia Boglione, ....(others ?)
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