Postgraduate Course: Language Description for Language Teaching (EDUA11037)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course aims to give participants a map of the territory of language description suitable to the needs of foreign-language teaching professionals. Exemplification - both of language points and pedagogic issues - will be from a variety of languages. Students are encouraged to contribute examples for discussion and analysis from their own language and their own teaching and learning experience.
Venue: Moray House School of Education |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 10:00 - 12:00 | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
20 minutes per week for 11 week(s). |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course participants will have:
- acquired a deeper understanding of the nature of language and its role in human thought and human communication;
- learned about different (especially formal vs. functional) approaches to language description and about sources of data for language description;
- explored key topics in phonetics/phonology, morphology/syntax, semantics/lexis and pragmatics/discourse;
- understood the basic principles of the study of language variation, both dialectal and diatypic;
- noticed and reflected on similarities and differences between languages, especially their own target teaching language and English (if these are different), in terms of both structure and use;
- understood the basic principles of pedagogical description of language and worked on a small-scale pedagogical-description task in relation to their target teaching language.
They will be able to
- think analytically and critically about problems of language description for language teaching in relation to their target teaching language
- evaluate published pedagogical descriptions
- produce appropriate descriptions for use in teaching materials, course books, syllabuses, etc. |
Assessment Information
1. 2-hour written examination (50%)
2. A small-scale project on a pedagogically appropriate description of some aspect of the student's target language (approx. 3000 words) (50%)
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| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Aileen Irvine
Tel: (0131 6)51 6145
Email: aileen.irvine@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
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