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Instructors: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.008.760
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELing 760
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
To obtain credit, participants are expected to prepare two short (team) presentations in class: first, reviewing the state of the art of linguistic research on their chosen project ideas for the advanced EFL classroom; second, adopting an innovative and creative ‘learning by doing’ approach, students will then design their own small-scale linguistic (team) project, discussing, detailing, and compiling well-motivated study materials and authentic data, whose initial outline will have to be presented in class (and this exploratory work will then serve as a sound basis for their potential term papers).
Details of organization and additional information will be available during the first meeting.
Contents:
In this (research) seminar, members are requested to advocate – or promote – the scientific study of language and communication with its various research methodologies as a trial project in the advanced EFL classroom.
More specifically, the task of the future-teacher-participants is to introduce their potential students to both pertinent and startling issues in linguistics beyond the notorious vocabulary teaching and grammar rehearsals prevailing in foreign language teaching – suggest a project idea and then design a linguistics course scheme suitable for the advanced learners of English.
Just to name a few among the many imaginable topics: how English has become a standard language; authentic conversation instead of artificial schoolbook dialogs; how speakers make meaning using non-verbal cues such as voice, gestures, facial expressions; what are the stylistic ‘ingredients’ of pop song performances; English or/and American pronunciation in the classroom, (be) like in youth language; the implications of super-diversity in (post-)multicultural English, and many more.
Accordingly, proposing and working on sensible course projects, participants in this master seminar will be responsible for the range of topics to be presented.
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