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Postgraduate Course: Language in use (EDUA11201)

Course Outline
SchoolMoray House School of Education CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course will explore function, form and meaning through a variety of short texts in common everyday contexts. Participants will begin the course by being exposed to a variety of texts and encouraged to view these in different ways, and this will lead towards selection and analysis of participants' own choices of texts. The course will focus on encouraging individuals to externalise initial reactions to texts and then to analyse this deeper, bringing in issues of culture and contexts.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Students are required to purchase the core texts marked in bold.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 10, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 16, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 200, Revision Session Hours 2, Other Study Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 0 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) The assignment should be approximately 4000 words.
Students should find an example of a unit in a coursebook that suggests real use of language but is lacking in some aspects. Other examples of the real language in use should be provided, and a rationale for the choice of new texts given. The texts chosen can be provided from the portfolio, and should include explanation of the text in context, analysis, and philosophical issues.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. discuss philosophies which inform views of language
  2. describdescribe and analyse linguistic features of texts using appropriate terminology
  3. analyse and evaluate the relationships between the context, culture, text and the individual
  4. relate issues of discourse and pragmatics to examples of real language in use
  5. critically evaluate current research on analysis of language in various forms
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Richard Easton
Tel: (0131 6)51 6424
Email:
Course secretaryMrs Moira Ross
Tel: (0131 6)51 6206
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