Analysing Language for ELT/TESOL

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Prepare explanations and tasks for areas of learner difficulty
• Anticipate and analyse the nature of learner difficulties with aspects of the grammatical system
• Use suitable terminology for describing grammar
• apply analytical procedures to English language data, including a variety of grammatical forms and functions in a range of texts

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify, select and use critically in professional communication a range of reference resources, printed and electronic
• Monitor and evaluate professional activity including self-evaluation
• Communicate effectively in a variety of written formats

The module explores:

• approaches to grammatical analysis and teaching and the skills and competences involved in teaching grammar.
• analytic processes with selected grammatical areas.
• the relationship between grammar and other levels of analysis – phonology, lexis and discourse.
• 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:

• Lectures
• Student-led workshops

Learning activities include:

• Group discussions
• Interactive tasks in topic learning objects
• Formative assignments, e.g. analysis of language data
• Essay writing
• Summative analytical tasks

Each week there will be one lecture and one activity-based workshop session.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Carter, R. and McCarthy, M. (2006). Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bolitho, R. and Tomlinson, B. (2005). Discover English: Language Awareness for Teachers. Macmillan Education.

Yule, G. (1998). Explaining English Grammar: A guide to explaining grammar for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

Thornbury, S. (2017). About Language: Tasks for teachers of English . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parrott, M. (2010). Grammar for English Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Swan, M. (2016). Practical English Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Larsen-Freeman, D. (2003). Teaching Languages: From Grammar to Grammaring. Heinle & Heinle.

Summative

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Referral

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Repeat

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Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External