Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (P02758)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-TPLTLING

This course covers recent work in which social, political, social-psychological and discourse-based analyses of language situations across the globe have been applied to the understanding of the teaching and learning of English and other languages. A range of competing approaches are explored, and students are encouraged to consider how each of them might relate to the particular problems that interest them and that might form the topic of their eventual dissertation. In the last part of the course they will focus on one particular approach for more in-depth research.

Venue: 1.01 Dugald Stewart Building

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Students on the course will normally have completed the core modules of the MSc in Applied Linguistics or the MSc in Language Teaching in Semester One, but students on other MSc or MEd courses with core modules in a related area may be permitted to take the course after discussion with the Course Organiser.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Language Sciences, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 9 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
16/01/2009	11:00	13:00			1.01 Dugald Stewart Building

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Friday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this course students will be able to explain and evaluate the ways in which ideas from the social, political and social-psychological analysis of language and discourse are currently being applied in the context of language teaching and learning, including issues of language maintenance and policy, the relationship of global languages to local ones, and the range of issues that arise within the neo-Vygotskyan / Bakhtinian framework, as well as in Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Applied Linguistics and other post-Marxist paradigms. All students will have a good overview of the various approaches that dominate the current literature, plus an in-depth understanding of one of these approaches, which will be the subject of their Literature Review Essay.

Assessment Information

The assessment will be in the form of a Literature Review Essay (length 5000 words), weighted 100%. This Essay will relate to one of the approaches covered on the course, chosen by the student and, where applicable, linked to their planned disseration.