Postgraduate Course: Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (LASC11101)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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.
First priority will be given to students on the MSc Applied Linguistics programme, and a further 12 spaces open to those externally. |
| 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
20% for course presentation of their critical assessment of a recently published research article in applied linguistics and language teaching;
80% for final project, a Critical Literature Review of a set of articles on a particular topic (chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor) in applied linguistics and language teaching. |
| Feedback |
In the second half of the course each student selects and presents a recently published journal article in applied linguistics and language teaching, and give a critical-analytic presentation of it before the class using the same format that will be followed in their Critical Literature Review assessment. They receive written feedback from the instructor on their presentation, in addition to the peer feedback they get from other students in the discussion section of their presentation. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student 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
- understand issues of language maintenance and policy
- understand the relationship of global languages to local ones
- understand language teaching classroom discourse
- understand the range of issues that arise within the various paradigms that frame current applied linguistic work
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Reading List
| Weekly readings. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students are also expected to acquire or sharpen the following transferable skills:
- Engage in autonomous thinking and analysis.
- Critically appraise material they have studied.
- Develop their research skills, in terms both of access to existing information and conducting original observation.
- Improve their expository writing skills.
- Become familiar with modes of analysis from other areas of the humanities and social sciences that are widely used in present-day applied linguistics as it relates to language teaching. |
| Keywords | applied linguistics,language teaching,language,education |
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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