ECL753 - Linguistics for Language Teaching
Unit details
Enrolment modes: | (B, X) |
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Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | R Neilsen |
Incompatible with: | ECL713, ECL714 |
Contact hours: | On-campus students: 2 hours of seminar/workshop per week. Off-campus students: a half day study day at the Melbourne Burwood Campus. |
Note:On-campus version and study day subject to demand. |
Content
On completion of the unit students should be able to:
Summarise key issues concerning the teaching and learning of grammar;
Analyze structure of spoken and written samples of their target language at all levels of language;
Highlight linguistic features of texts for teaching purposes, and justify their choice; and
Demonstrate the ability to assess the language ability of ESL/EFL learners at different levels of proficiency and monitor their development through stages.
Topics to be addressed in this unit include:
• Approaches to the description of language for teaching purposes;
• Language structure and language function
• Words: their formation and meanings, and teaching and learning vocabulary;
• The study of syntax (structure of groups/phrases, clauses and clause complexes), cohesive devices, thematic development, morphology and phonology;
• The teaching of linguistic features in context;
• Description of thematic development of texts and using it to the evaluation of language learners’ texts.
• Analysis of learner interlanguage for diagnostic and teaching purposes.
Assessment
Analysis of teaching text (2500 words equivalent - 40%); analysis essay including analysis of learner text sample and a discussion of the analytic tools used (3500 words equivalent - 60%).Unit Fee Information
Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Student Contribution Rate*** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
$706 | $565 | $565 | $1872 | $2394 |
* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.