Describing and Analysing Language
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Course Code: MMALIE_02
Masters Level Module
This module deals with the nature of human languages, their structure at various levels and the descriptions of that structure. Using a variety of techniques, the module will encourage participants to study and apply analytic tools to language data. Participants will be involved in examining language in use from the perspectives of sound, meaning and structure; how this language varies both over time and geographically, and how it relates to both teachers and learners. Participants will analyse these significant patterns in discourse, phrases, clauses and sentences, transcribe speech sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), characte…
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Course Code: MMALIE_02
Masters Level Module
This module deals with the nature of human languages, their
structure at various levels and the descriptions of that structure.
Using a variety of techniques, the module will encourage
participants to study and apply analytic tools to language data.
Participants will be involved in examining language in use from the
perspectives of sound, meaning and structure; how this language
varies both over time and geographically, and how it relates to
both teachers and learners. Participants will analyse these
significant patterns in discourse, phrases, clauses and sentences,
transcribe speech sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA), characterise samples of language in terms of channel and
register, and describe patterns of linguistic variation and
change.
Related Programmes
TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) (Distance Learning) MA
TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) MA
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