UZAJ2011 Aspects of Language for Teachers

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 9:10–10:45 G32
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course. This course was offered for the first time in Autumn 2009.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The principal aim of this course is to lay the linguistic foundations for the English language teaching methodologies that will be taught in the semesters that follow. The notion of language as a string of grammatical slots into which words are poured is incompatible with current linguistics and consequently, sentence grammar is no longer regarded as the core unit of language teaching. The course will explore language as a tool for communication, expressing oneself on various levels, the interplay of linguistic levels from morphology to pragmatics. And it will consider the role English plays in the wider world as a lingua franca.
Syllabus
  • Definitions of language
  • Choice in language
  • Current schools of language thought
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Language as probabalistic
  • Definitions of 'word' - holophrasis, periphrasis
  • Different grammars
  • Language hierarchy
  • Lexis and Semantics
  • Phonology
  • Spoken and written language
  • English as a lingua franca
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. 2008th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 288 s. ISBN 9780521284752. info
  • O'KEEFFE, Anne, Michael MCCARTHY and Ronald CARTER. From corpus to classroom : language use and language teaching. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xv, 315. ISBN 9780521616867. info
  • THORNBURY, Scott. Beyond the sentence : introducing discourse analysis. 1st pub. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005, 192 s. ISBN 9781405064071. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Lexical priming : a new theory of words and language. First published. New York: Routledge, 2005, xiii, 202. ISBN 0415328624. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Lexical priming : a new theory of words and language. First published. New York: Routledge, 2005, xiii, 202. ISBN 0415328624. info
  • SINCLAIR, John McHardy. How to use corpora in language teaching. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 2004, vi, 307. ISBN 9027222835. info
  • STUBBS, Michael. Words and phrases : corpus studies of lexical semantics. Oxford [England] ;: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, xix, 267. ISBN 063120833X. info
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiv, 138. ISBN 0194372073. info
  • STUBBS, Michael. Text and corpus analysis :computer-assisted studies of language and culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, xix, 267 s. ISBN 0-631-19512-2. info
  • SINCLAIR, John McHardy. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Edited by Ronald Carter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, xviii, 179. ISBN 0194371441. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Patterns of lexis in text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, xvii, 276. ISBN 0194371425. info
  • LEWIS, Michael. The English verb : an eploration of structure and meaning. Hove: Language teaching publications, 1986, 180 s. ISBN 0-906717-40-X. info
    not specified
  • HATCH, Evelyn Marcussen. Discourse and language education. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xi, 333. ISBN 0521415829. info
Teaching methods
This core content of this course is presented through participatory lectures, in which the students perform various activities during the course of the lectures.
There is preparatory reading for each session, mostly posted in the e-learning platform, Moodle.
Course participants are required to work through another e-learning course, "Incorporating Corpora into Language Teaching" that trains its students in the use of MU's Sketch Engine software while making them aware of the value of empirical research on language phenomena
Assessment methods
Throughout the semester students are required to read extensively and discuss in online forums their responses to the readings. Students also perform direct research on linguistic phenomena. There is an online terminology test. The course concludes with group presentations of the pedagogical implications of their findings.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022.
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