Module overview
Linked modules
LING2011 or LING2008
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- The ability to engage with subject matter and received opinion in breadth and depth
- The ability to apply and evaluate appropriate methods to the study of English dialects in order to study testable hypotheses
- The ability to formulate and defend personal opinion clearly and persuasively and with recourse to appropriate evidence
- The ability to relate knowledge from sociolinguistic theory to broader debates within the field of English linguistics and sociolinguistics
- The ability to select and collect suitable variables from empirical data in order to test, analyse and present specific hypotheses
- The ability to select, synthesise and focus pertinent data; to select, synthesise and focus information from theoretical and methodological source material
- The ability to define, present and exemplify theoretical concepts regarding English phonetic and phonology
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Develop competencies with a range of general computer software, such as Excel and Audacity, as well as with specialist phonetics software such as Praat, DARLA and advance statistical programming software such as R.
- Gain skills and expertise in multivariate analysis of sociolinguistic data
- Gain skills and expertise in phonetic coding of sociolinguistic data
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Gain skills in abstracting and synthesising complex information and data and organising the results appropriately
- Gain skills and expertise in working with others to collect, analyse and present appropriate data
- Develop skills in analysing and presenting various genres of data both cogently and concisely
- Gain skills and expertise in reflecting on your own learning processes and using feedback cumulatively
- Gain skills in producing academic writing to required conventions
- Gain skills in communicating effectively in a long and complex piece of academic writing
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Social differentiation and variation (class, gender, age etc.) in spoken discourse
- Current sociolinguistic theory; phonetic, dialectal difference between regional and global varieties of English
- The phonological and phonetic structure of contemporary English, including reference to morphological items
- The analysis of spoken discourse, including orthographic conventions and phonetic variation
- The relationship between language and the mind in terms of dialect and accent acquisition
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 82 |
Teaching | 28 |
Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Praat software. free computer program. Already installed on university network. http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Transcriber free computer software. Free - may need to be downloaded onto uni network. http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php
Textbooks
Jack Chambers (2008). Sociolinguistic Theory. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Sali Tagliamonte (2006). Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: CUP.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Annotated bibliography | 10% |
Research project Report | 60% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Annotated bibliography | 10% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Research project Report | 60% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Annotated bibliography | 10% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Research project Report | 60% |
Computer assisted assessment | 10% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External