Postgraduate Course: Text and Discourse in TESOL (EDUA11032)
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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The module trains students to apply a variety of techniques of discourse analysis to samples of English and critically compare the merits of different techniques. Topics include: pragmatics and discourse analysis, speech act theory, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, co-operative principle, genre analysis, contrastive rhetoric, language and power, language and gender, corpus linguistics and discourse and the internet. Students will analyse data in their own TESOL situation and evaluate current research issues in discourse analysis/TESOL methodology. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Summary of intended learning outcomes. By the end of the module, students will have demonstrated the ability to:
1. Apply a variety of techniques of discourse analysis to the analysis of samples of written and spoken English;
2. Critically compare the merits of different techniques;
3. Identify the usefulness and practicability of applying such techniques to gather and analyse data in their own TESOL situation;
4. Evaluate the role of discourse analysis in producing or evaluating materials for TESOL;
5. Evaluate current research issues in discourse analysis/TESOL methodology. |
Assessment Information
Students will produce:
a) a folio of course work (worth 30% of the total)
- applying a variety of techniques of discourse analysis
- critically comparing the merits of different techniques
- evaluating current research issues in discourse analysis
b) an assignment (worth 70% of the total) that includes:
- a description and analysis of an attempt to use one approach to discourse analysis on data collected by the course member;
- an assessment of the discourse analysis approach as a research tool;
- an assessment of the application of the discourse analysis approach to the participant's own TESOL situation. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Reading list |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Yvonne Foley
Tel:
Email: yvonne.foley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Moira Ross
Tel: (0131 6)51 6206
Email: Moira.G.Ross@ed.ac.uk |
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