Teaching and Researching Second Language Writing

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• your own strategies as a writer.
• the ways in which research into writing is carried out;
• key concepts and terms used in current research into writing in both first and second languages;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply theoretical models of the writing process to your students’ writing in the classroom;
• understand the relationship between your students’ literacy in their first and second languages.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• examine the place of writing in your own learning and teaching of languages.
• understand and evaluate research methods used in the study of writing;
• examine the strategies you use in text production;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand how research tools are used to investigate practical situations
• relate theory to practice in applied linguistics;
• understand your own approaches to writing in different contexts.

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.