Advanced Grammar for Study and Professions
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| EDEN3000 | School of Education and English | 3 | 20 | Autumn China |
- Code
- EDEN3000
- School
- School of Education and English
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn China
Summary
This module develops a thorough understanding of English grammar through practical application and analysis. It also further develops formal lexical range and promotes skills in autonomous vocabulary development.
Themes and topics will be developed according to the needs of the group within a generic framework outlined below. Key functional and structural topics relating to academic and professional language will be covered.
Please note this module is assessed at the end of in Autumn semester. First sit/ Resit exams are scheduled normally in the summer and can take the same form as the missing/ failed component of the assessment (exam, essay etc.) or other form, as decided by the School.
Target Students
Level 3 students enrolled in the BA Honours English Language and Applied Linguistics; BA Honours English with International Business, and not open to mobility students.
Classes
- One 1-hour-30-minute seminar each week for 10 weeks
- One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 10 weeks
Assessment
- 50% Coursework1: 2,500 word written assignment (end of semester)
- 50% Timed Coursework 1: 1.5 hour in-class assessment (mid-term)
Educational Aims
The module aims to improve students’ ability to analyse, evaluate and practise using for themselves complex grammatical structures, and to understand how they function in key areas of academic and professional discourse. Each seminar will be exemplified by real world instances of texts and talk in the context of academic and professional discourse. Throughout the module, different linguistic constructions, complex clause variation and tasks will help expand the range and sophistication of lexical and syntactical choice in these contexts.Learning Outcomes
a) Knowledge and understanding:
• To provide a detailed understanding of how sentence structure and vocabulary choice varies in a range of academic and professional contexts.
• To extend knowledge of grammatical range in English and the interface between semantic and syntactic choices.
• To develop a wide and appropriate active vocabulary for academic and professional discourse.
• To provide practical understanding of the interface between grammatical rules and individual choices in context.
b) Intellectual skills:
• To provide a deeper understanding of academic and professional identity and the links between language and academic culture.
• To gain a better understanding of issues of objectivity and subjectivity and how these are reflected in conventional academic and professional language.
• To further develop conceptual versus concrete thinking and understand how this is reflected in key academic and professional language functions such as exemplification and drawing inferences.
c) Professional practical skills:
• To enhance confidence in the accurate and sophisticated use of English in study and subsequent work environments.
• To provide further practice of investigative tools for research in Applied Linguistics.
d) Transferable (key) skills
• Ability to critically assess one's own use of language and that of others
• Enhanced ability to write and speak accurate and fluent English
• Knowledge of how to choose appropriate language in differing contexts.
Conveners
- Dr Derek Irwin