Postgraduate Course: Language in use (EDUA11201)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will explore function, form and meaning through a variety of short texts in common everyday contexts. Participants will begin the course by being exposed to a variety of texts and encouraged to view these in different ways, and this will lead towards selection and analysis of participants' own choices of texts. The course will focus on encouraging individuals to externalise initial reactions to texts and then to analyse this deeper, bringing in issues of culture and contexts. |
| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Students are required to purchase the core texts marked in bold. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 16,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 200,
Revision Session Hours 2,
Other Study Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assignment should be approximately 4000 words.
Students should find an example of a unit in a coursebook that suggests real use of language but is lacking in some aspects. Other examples of the real language in use should be provided, and a rationale for the choice of new texts given. The texts chosen can be provided from the portfolio, and should include explanation of the text in context, analysis, and philosophical issues.
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| Feedback |
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course participants will be able to:
* discuss philosophies which inform views of language
* describe and analyse linguistic features of texts using appropriate terminology
* analyse and evaluate the relationships between the context, culture, text and the individual
* relate issues of discourse and pragmatics to examples of real language in use
* critically evaluate current research on analysis of language in various forms
* engage with analysis of chosen samples of language
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Richard Easton
Tel: (0131 6)51 6424
Email: Richard.Easton@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Moira Ross
Tel: (0131 6)51 6206
Email: Moira.G.Ross@ed.ac.uk |
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