Language Analysis for Teaching

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Monitor and evaluate professional activity including self-evaluation
• Demonstrate online interpersonal and collaborative skills in the presentation of work, tutorials and workshop discussions
• Communicate through synchronous and asynchronous computer mediated communication
• Use ICT skills appropriately in the planning and development of group projects, and peer support
• Use ICT skills appropriately in the presentation and discussion of work, and teaching/learning issues
• Use ICT skills appropriately in e-communication
• Identify, select and use critically in professional communication a range of reference resources, printed and electronic
• Communicate in a variety of written formats

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use reference material relevant to learner needs
• Use suitable terminology for describing grammar
• Prepare explanations and tasks for areas of learner difficulty
• Translate language awareness into material for student learning
• Apply analytical systems to a variety of grammatical forms and functions in a range of texts
• Anticipate and analyse the nature of learner difficulties with aspects of the grammatical system

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• classifications of language competence relevant to syllabus and materials design
• principles for grammatical explanation and classroom teaching activities
• form-meaning relationships (speech functions and notions, grammatical concepts, etc) in a variety of contexts
• the interaction between grammar and other language systems
• differing perspectives on grammar and their relevance to teaching practice

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Notice and investigate features of grammar in context
• Reflect on your own teaching practice and identify areas for change
• Relate your prior teaching experience to current theories and debates on the teaching of grammar
• Critically compare different approaches to grammatical analysis
• Explore an inductive approach to teaching and learning grammar

The module has 4 blocks. Block 1 looks at approaches to grammatical analysis and teaching and the skills and competences involved in teaching grammar. In block two the focus will be on analytic processes with selected grammatical areas. Block three examines the relationship between grammar and other levels of analysis – phonology, lexis and discourse. The final block of the module focuses on pedagogic grammar and the application of your analytical skills and awareness to classroom practice. The examples and main references in the module will be for English.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Online tutor led discussion forums
• Interactive tasks in topic learning objects
• Presentations and lectures via podcasts/audio/video files
• Synchronous chat/small group discussions

Learning activities include:

• Reading key texts
• Accessing online resources
• Participating in online forums
• Private study, research and reflection
• Action research and reporting/presentation in forums

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Swan M (2005). Practical English Usage. Oxford University Press.

Wright T (1994). Language Analysis for Teachers. Edward Arnold.

Bygate M, Tonkyn A, Williams E(eds) (1994). Grammar & the Language Teacher. Prentice Hall International.

Larsen-Freeman D (2001). Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring. Heinle & Heinle.

Thornbury S (1997). About Language. Cambridge University Press.

Yule G (1998). Analysing English Grammar. Oxford University Press.

Carter R and M McCarthy (2006). The Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge University Press.

Parrott M (2000). Grammar for English Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.

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 Information

Repeat type: Internal & External