Universität Wien

122222 SE Linguistics Seminar / BA Paper (2016S)

English as a lingua franca: Description and pedagogy

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

N.B.: Presentations will be blocked at a seminar conference on June 3 (14.00-20.00) & June 4 (8.00-14.00).
Attendance during the entire seminar conference is mandatory for course completion!
Weekly sessions will be held until end of May.

  • Tuesday 08.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 15.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 05.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 12.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 19.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 26.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 03.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 10.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 24.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Tuesday 31.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Friday 03.06. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Saturday 04.06. 08:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course offers an overview of recent conceptual, sociolinguistic and descriptive research on English as a lingua franca (ELF). Together, we will review some existing ELF findings, focusing in particular on pragmatic concepts and strategies. We will also discuss potential pedagogical implications that emerging ELF findings might have for school contexts and teacher education.
Throughout the semester, students will work independently on an individual topic. They will either a) analyze ELF data from the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), a one-million-word corpus of recorded and transcribed real-world ELF interactions, or b) critically analyze and discuss documents related to English language teaching and consider practical implications of ELF for ELT.

Aims:
Students will have an overview of the recent phenomenon, characteristics and terminology related to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). They are familiar with general topics of ELF research and able to discuss critically what the global spread of English has meant/means for language use and might mean for English Language Teaching.
They are able to carry out a small descriptive and/or applied linguistic research project on ELF based on sound theoretical and methodological background.

N.B.: Presentations will be blocked at a seminar conference on June 3 (14.00-20.00) & June 4 (8.00-14.00).
Attendance during the entire seminar conference is mandatory for course completion!
Weekly sessions will be held until end of May.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students are assessed on the basis of assignments, participation, paper proposal, presentation (at the mini-conference) and written seminar paper. Paper proposal, presentation and seminar paper are based on the small-scale research project each student will select and work on during the semester.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Course evaluation is based on:
*) class participation, reading and assignments (max. 15 points)
*) paper proposal (max. 15 points)
*) oral presentation (max. 10 points)
*) seminar paper (max. 60 points)

The minimum requirements for passing the course are:
(a) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences) and attendance of seminar conference
(b) handing in paper proposal (on time)
(c) giving the oral presentation (on set date)
(d) handing in the seminar paper (on time)
(e) attaining 60 of the maximum of 100 points.

Final grades & points achieved:
Sehr gut: 90-100; Gut: 80-89; Befriedigend: 70-79; Genügend: 60-69; Nicht Genügend: 0-59

Examination topics

(see Mindestanforderungen)

Reading list

will be provided in class

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.3-222, BA06.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-2222

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