AJ11611 Collocation Plus

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types 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
Wed 14:10–15:45 G21
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
Priority will be given to students who have passed courses in corpus use and/or collocation, and to students in later semesters of the Bachelor program.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those 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, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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Course objectives
This practical language course has various aims developed for students who are interested in learning some specific and innovative techniques for learning how to learn language from language.

Participating in this course should develop skills in:
observing various levels of vocabulary that operate across texts
discovering the extent to which their lexical and grammatical company is typical
extracting useful data from corpora and turning it into information
using the content learnt through "narrow reading" to write short articles

The course is called Collocation Plus, because in this work, noun-verb collocations are at the heart of syntax. This is where grammar and vocabulary meet. We study a lot of vocabulary in the context of its grammatical "company".
Syllabus
  • Introduction to full text as a source of language learning.
  • Explore the nature and influence of collocation and of collocation plus.
  • Topic trails.
  • Compare the language of texts about the same topics.
  • Observe the language features of texts in different genres: similarities and differences.
  • Verify the patterns in text using corpora
  • Build corpora of studied texts.
Literature
  • THOMAS, James Edward and Alex BOULTON. Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2012, 352 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5896-5. Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora info
  • SINCLAIR, John McHardy and Anna MAURANEN. Linear unit grammar : integrating speech and writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006, xxi, 185. ISBN 9027222983. info
Teaching methods
Guided discovery above all. Discovery of language features, uses of vocabulary, verification in large corpora. The recommended literature list mainly contains anthologies. Selected papers are required reading.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
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