UZAJ5031 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)
Supervisor
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies - Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of English and American Studies - Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Friday 14:10–15:45 G32
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course. This course is being offered for the first time in Autumn 2009.
Course Enrollment 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 enrollment status: enrolled: 4/20, only registered: 1/20
Fields of study 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
  • THORNBURY, Scott. Beyond the sentence :introducing discourse analysis. 1st pub. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005. 192 s. ISBN 978-1-4050-6407-1. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Lexical priming :a new theory of words and language. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiii, 202. ISBN 0-415-32862-4. info
  • BROWN, Gillian and George YULE. Discourse analysis. 2008. vyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 288 s. ISBN 978-0-521-28475-2. info
  • From corpus to classroom :language use and language teaching. Edited by Anne O'Keeffe - Michael McCarthy - Ronald Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv, 315 s. ISBN 978-0-521-85146-6. info
  • SINCLAIR, John McHardy. How to use corpora in language teaching. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 2004. vi, 307 p. ISBN 90-272-2283-5. info
  • SINCLAIR, John. Corpus, concordance, collocation. Edited by Ronald Carter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xviii, 179. ISBN 0-19-437144-1. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Patterns of lexis in text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvii, 276. ISBN 0-19-437142-5. info
  • STUBBS, Michael. Words and phrases :corpus studies of lexical semantics. Oxford [England] ;: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. xix, 267 s. ISBN 0-631-20833-X. 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
  • YULE, George. Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv, 138 s. ISBN 0-19-437207-3. info
  • HOEY, Michael. Lexical priming :a new theory of words and language. 1st pub. New York: Routledge, 2005. xiii, 202. ISBN 0-415-32862-4. 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. Discourse and language education. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xi, 333 s. ISBN 0-521-41582-9. info
Teaching 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.
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. Attendance is compulsory.
Language in which the course is taught
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.
  • Enrollment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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