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This unit focuses on TESOL classroom practice; practical application of the content of LING955 Language Teaching Methodologies; observation of TESOL classes; practice teaching; lesson/materials preparation; and self-evaluation.
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This unit explores the nature of language, language in context, register, text structure, sentence and text level grammar, spoken and written English, phonology, language and language learning.
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This unit explores approaches to language teaching; lesson and program planning; developing language skills; classroom management; materials evaluation and selection; technological aids to language teaching/learning; assessment and evaluation.
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The nature of professional expertise, its definition and its processes of acquisition, its relationship to the charting of professional competencies and to personal communicative capacity. How social and institutional contexts inform and are informed by narratives of experience. The nature of claims and warrants for expert behaviour. Evaluation of evidence for expert exercise of judgment in different contexts.
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Principles and processes of inter-/intra cultural communication against diverse interpretations of the construct of culture. The explanatory analysis of the discourses occurring at critical moments in crucial sites of engagement in workplaces, involving participants from distinct ethno-linguistic and/or institutional/organisational cultures, and emphasising especially issues of intertexuality, stance, face, metaphor, verbal/non-verbal communication, and variation in pragmatic meaning.
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Participants describe, interpret and explain selected professional-client encounters in key sites, eg healthcare, law, social work, bureaucracies, firms, and public relations. The course emphasises the explanatory value and relevance of carrying out collaborative research involving discourse specialists and professionals, leading to training and other processes which will improve professional-client communication. Ethical issues in professional-client communication are also examined.
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Introduction to a variety of methodologies for analysing and describing multi-modal communication in a range of organisational and professional settings, emphasising the impact of the deployment of new communication technologies on workplace communication practices, and participant skills. Particular emphasis is given to man-machine interaction, usability of web-mediated communication, visually presented information, collaborative message generation and document design.
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Realisation of organisational structure in particular patterns of discourse and language use; the impact of organisational change on modes of communication and on worker identity, particularly in response to globalisation, demands for enhanced public participation, transparency and accountability, workplace reform; how discourses of information and policy are created, re-contextualised, transformed and re-interpreted for and by different audiences in the context of work across and within organisations.
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The unit introduces the domains and principles of editing, and focuses on key policy-making areas of style, inclusive language and typography; and the interaction with other parties involved in the editorial process.
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The unit examines the resources of the English language and how they are used by skilled writers and editors. Issues of readability, style and authorial expression will be under discussion.
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This unit is concerned with the principles of structural editing, and their application to both printed and electronic media. Issues of access and navigation in electronic documents will be discussed, as well as onscreen editing and indexing.
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The unit addresses the executive roles of the editor in relation to a manuscript, managing reviews and the rights and permissions process, commissioning of indexes and promotional writing.
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This unit consists of guided reading and/or an experimental program preliminary to the writing of the dissertation. The project will be developed through a series of four individual consultations.
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This unit complements LING965 and consists of the writing up of the dissertation. The dissertation will be discussed and reviewed in a series of four consultations.
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This unit integrates qualitative and quantitative research methods in the description, interpretation and evaluation of professional and organisational communication. Key points of focus include: research project design and management; gathering data in context; analysis, presentation and dissemination of findings; collaborative research underpinning evidence based practice and the process of professional and organisational change.
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This unit will introduce students to the application of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in second language acquisition. The unit will explore asynchronous communication by email and bulletin boards as well as synchronous communication via chatlines and within MOO (multi-user domains, object-oriented) environments. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of CMC in intercultural learning processes. Assessment will be ongoing and it will include practical as well as more theoretical components.
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This unit examines the origins of academic English and explores the lexicogrammatical features, the epistemic functions, and the genres that make it such a distinct and complex register. Students examine both spoken and written texts, and can (within certain limits) focus on issues of particular interest and relevance to themselves. Different pedagogical approaches are evaluated.
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Please contact the Department of Linguistics for details.
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The purpose of the subject is to introduce the student to the study of gestural communication and its relationship to spoken and signed languages. The emphasis in this subject will be on the semiotic, linguistic and cultural aspects of gestural communication. Note: the unit has an obligatory and substantial face-to-face component.
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Drawing on linguistics, communication studies and visual semiotics, this course explores media as a social, political and economic institution, genres of news and current affairs, analysis of multi-modal texts, developing and using news corpora, news and translation, modes of evaluation in news reporting, news values and ideology, new and alternative forms of media.
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This unit focuses on the analysis of spoken, written and multimodal discourses in a range of real-life settings and domains. It locates such discourses in their historical, institutional, and local context presenting a range of methodologies for descriptive, interpretive and explanatory analysis. The unit emphasises application of discourse analysis to the study of professional encounters.
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A research project of about 20,000 words on a topic to be decided in consultation with the course convener and supervised by an individual supervisor. The completed project is expected to show a good knowledge of the chosen topic and its contexts. This unit enables mid-year entry and facilitates extended or interrupted candidature.
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This unit considers the fiction, prose and poetry of the nineteenth century. Literary and cultural issues are addressed through critical analysis of the work of representative writers.
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This unit studies poems and plays by Shakespeare and other writers of the English Renaissance in relation to notions of gender, sexuality, subjectivity and power. The texts are considered in the context of the unorthodox, the heretical and the alien.
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This unit examines the use of language in literary texts. It surveys attitudes to the language of literature and explores distinctions between literary and non-literary uses of language. Assessment includes a number of brief practical exercises.
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