Linguistic Description for Language Teaching (Level 6)
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 6
- Convenor and tutor: Bojana Petric
- Prerequisites: Approaches to Language, Language Learning (Level 5 or 6), Language Teaching Research (Level 5 or 6)
- Assessment: a 2500-3000-word essay (100%)
Module description
This module will equip you with key linguistic concepts, terms and tools necessary for describing language for pedagogical purposes. It will provide you with an overview of the systems of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse, and help you develop skills in linguistic description for language teaching.
Indicative module syllabus
- Teacher linguistic knowledge and language awareness
- Systems of language description and their pedagogical applications
- Phonetics and phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Discourse analysis
- Corpus tools for language description
- Describing learner language
- Language description and teaching materials
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- use appropriate linguistic terminology for linguistic description
- apply the acquired knowledge to the analysis of new samples of language, including the language produced by language learners
- apply the acquired knowledge to the analysis and evaluation of teaching materials for language teaching.