Teaching English for Academic Purposes: Context, Language and Pedagogy (D)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| EDUC4209 | Education | 4 | 30 | Spring UK |
- Code
- EDUC4209
- School
- Education
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 30
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module focuses on:
- Current status of English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes
- Academic communities and contexts genre stance
- Academic grammar and vocabulary
- Text processing and production
- EAP learner identity, backgrounds and expectations
- Types of EAP courses (needs, contexts and constraints) EAP classroom practice
- EAP teachers: beliefs, identities and professional development
Target Students
Students on the MA TESOL (Online) programme only.
Classes
This module is delivered digitally, with tutorial support included.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: 6000 words or equivalent
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to:develop in participants a critical awareness and understanding of the factors that influence the way in which discipline-specific discourse communities communicate in Higher Education to achieve specific purposes, and how these relate to the practice of EAP.Learning Outcomes
A. Knowledge and Understanding:
A student who completes this module successfully will have knowledge and understanding of:
- current issues in language education methodology and research how programmes can be designed and delivered to meet more effectively the needs of particular learners in specific teaching contexts
- a specialist area of language education theory/practice which will enable them to make a valuable contribution to language teaching/learning in a specific context.
B. Intellectual Skills:
A student who completes this module successfully will be able to:
- critically evaluate relevant practice, including their own, in the light of current theory and practice in the field
- critically evaluate relevant theory and empirical research in language education
- formulate possible solutions to problems in the practice of language education.
C. Transferable (key) Skills:
A student who completes this module successfully will be able to:
- critically analyse and evaluate their own professional practice and that of others
- communicate clearly and confidently on educational issues
- analyse and evaluate the relevance and adequacy of theory, empirical studies and practical proposals relating to education
- present well-argued strategies for implementing change in their professional practice and teaching context, as appropriate
Conveners
- Ms Renata Seredynska-abou eid