Postgraduate Course: Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (LASC11101)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
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 |
Language Sciences |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course covers recent work in which social, political, social-psychological and discourse-based analyses of language situations across the globe have been applied to the understanding of the teaching and learning of English and other languages. A range of competing approaches are explored, and students are encouraged to consider how each of them might relate to the particular problems that interest them and that might form the topic of their eventual dissertation. In the last part of the course they will focus on one particular approach for more in-depth research. |
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 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Friday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. 3.10 Dugald Stewart Building |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| After successful completion of this course students will be able to explain and evaluate the ways in which ideas from the social, political and social-psychological analysis of language and discourse are currently being applied in the context of language teaching and learning, including issues of language maintenance and policy, the relationship of global languages to local ones, and the range of issues that arise within the neo-Vygotskyan / Bakhtinian framework, as well as in Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Applied Linguistics and other post-Marxist paradigms. All students will have a good overview of the various approaches that dominate the current literature, plus an in-depth understanding of one of these approaches, which will be the subject of their Literature Review Essay. |
Assessment Information
| The assessment will be in the form of a Literature Review Essay (length 5000 words), weighted 100%. This Essay will relate to one of the approaches covered on the course, chosen by the student and, where applicable, linked to their planned disseration. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof John Joseph
Tel: (0131 6)50 3497
Email: John.Joseph@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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