Structure of English

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Plan and organise your learning through self-management; exercise independence and initiative;
• Engage with subject matter and opinion in both breadth and depth;
• Formulate and defend personal judgements clearly and persuasively on the basis of evidence;
• Work effectively alone and in collaboration with others to solve problems and/or carry out a task;
• Analyse and question assumptions and received opinion, proposing alternatives where appropriate.
• Set and monitor goals, reflect on your own learning, and learn from feedback.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Learn to objectively analyse grammatical phenomena in English in comparison with other languages.
• Gain an understanding of the way that words are structured in English;
• Gain an understanding of the syntactic structure and semantic interpretation of major constructions in English and the foundations of syntactic and semantic analysis;
• Gain an understanding of the structure of the phonological system of English;
• Conceptualize your native or learner intuitions into explicit knowledge of English structure;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Select, synthesise and focus information and data from a range of sources on the English language;
• Apply knowledge, understanding and analysis critically to different topics; formulate and clarify key critical questions in the area of English language and structure;
• Analyse empirical (linguistic) data, including providing your own examples, and present the results of the analysis clearly and cogently.
• Define, present and exemplify concepts in English grammar;

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.