Analysing Language for ELT/TESOL

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• principles for grammatical explanation and classroom teaching activities
• form-meaning relationships (speech functions and notions, grammatical concepts, etc) in a variety of contexts
• the interaction between grammar and other language systems
• differing perspectives on grammar and their relevance to teaching practice

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explore an inductive approach to teaching and learning grammar
• Critically compare different approaches to grammatical analysis
• Notice and investigate features of grammar in context

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Prepare explanations and tasks for areas of learner difficulty
• Anticipate and analyse the nature of learner difficulties with aspects of the grammatical system
• Use suitable terminology for describing grammar

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate effectively in a variety of written formats
• Identify, select and use critically in professional communication a range of reference resources, printed and electronic

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class Exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.