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ED52036: Language awareness

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Education
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWES 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Essay (CWES 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit students will be able to:
* Identify, explore, and discuss issues concerning the systems of language and their implications for language use, learning, and teaching.
* Apply textually-oriented and socially-oriented approaches to (critical) discourse analysis.
* Identify and critique recent studies on language awareness and discuss their relevance to particular language teaching contexts.
* Analyse language awareness issues in a particular pedagogical context and design a training project which addresses those issues, employing a variety of strategies and providing a rationale for their selection and use.
* Evaluate national language education documents (e.g. policies and curricula) in light of current understandings of language awareness issues.
* Critically evaluate English as an international language in relation to the English that is taught in a range of different contexts.


Synopsis: Explore linguistic diversity through a systemic examination of language and how it is used in context. You'll analyse and discuss issues surrounding language and its implications for the L2 classroom. This unit will help you develop a critical understanding and sensitivity of beliefs, attitudes and values related to whose English language we teach, how we teach it and why we teach it within a context relevant to you as a teacher of English.

Content: This unit will include the following content: Language in its social context Text and discourse analysis: Genre, gender, identity, ideology, multimodality in a range of texts Conversation analysis Pragmatics and sociocultural awareness Corpus linguistics Multi-literacies World Englishes, English as an International Language & English as a Lingua Franca Native-speakerism.

Course availability:

ED52036 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department of Education
  • THED-AFM71 : MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 

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