Centre for Language and School of Linguistic, and Communication Sciences

LI1006 The Applied of English Language Teaching I

Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 5 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to fundamental principles in English language curriculum design, particularly learner-centred approaches to curriculum design. It draws on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the European Language Portfolio in its exploration of the curriculum planning cycle.

LI1007 The Applied Linguistics of English Language Teaching II

Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 5 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to fundamental principles in English language curriculum design and language testing, and to apply those principles to the design of language tasks and tests.

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LI233A Language Learning

Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Description: This module introduces students to key issues in foreign language learning in formal contexts. Topics covered include theories of language learning, research findings in relation to successful and unsuccessful learners, the role of the mother tongue.

Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 5 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to key issues in foreign language learning in formal contexts. Topics covered include theories of language learning, research findings in relation to successful and unsuccessful learners, the role of the mother tongue.

LI237A Aspects of Written Language

Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 5 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to a range of perspectives – historical, social, linguistic, discourse-analytic, and cognitive – on a pervasive and hugely important linguistic phenomenon that is often taken for granted by literate people in literate societies: written language.

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LI231A Aspects of Vocabulary

Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 5 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to a number of different perspectives on the as a linguistic unit and to a number of areas in which the study of vocabulary has practical applications.

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The following courses, forming part of the M. Phil. programmes in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Speech and Language Processing, and English Language Teaching may be available to suitably qualified students:

LI7856 Describing

Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module will introduce the basic concepts of syntactic description. It covers the basic features of sentence structure: syntactic categories, constituency, dependency, agreement, the subordination and co-ordination of sentences.

LI7861 Language and Change

Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module is concerned with the comparison of languages in order to reveal systematic patterns of variation and the nature of universals.

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LI7865 History and Globalisation of English Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module has four principal aims: (i) to give an overview of the linguistic history of English, (ii) to show the relationship between variation within English and the historical development of the language, (iii) to survey the spread of English, and (iv) to examine world Englishes within the context of social, historical, and linguistic theory.

LI7866 Bilingualism and the Maintenance of Irish Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module examines aspects of theory and research in , and that are relevant to bilingualism and language maintenance in Ireland.

LI7872 Formal Foundations of Linguistic Theories Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module is designed to establish competence in foundational mathematical concepts used in contemporary cognitive science and computationally oriented approaches to linguistic theory.

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LI7874 Speech Production, Hearing and Perception Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to some of the major models of speech production, perception and hearing, as well as providing hands-on experience in conducting production and perception experiments.

LI7878 Describing English Grammar Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module has three principal aims: (i) to examine the major grammatical features of English, (ii) to understand the principles which account for grammatical variation, and (iii) to develop a critical perspective on the role of standardization in English grammar.

LI7857 Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module will introduce students to empirical, theoretical and practical issues in first language acquisition research. Particular attention is given to controversies arising from different models of the first language acquisition process.

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LI7860 Technology, Language and Communication Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: In this module students explore how language and communication are mediated by various technologies, including that of writing.

LI7862 Linguistic Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module aims to (i) introduce students to inferential theories of pragmatics, (ii) familiarize students with Relevance theory in particular; and (iii) give students experience of the practical description of conversational data.

LI7864 Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to the benefits and limitations of using corpora (electronic collections of language samples) in a wide range of domains in the areas of linguistic research, language teaching & learning and natural language processing applications.

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LI7869 Describing Meaning Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module will introduce students to the study of meaning. Topics include theories of reference; meaning and conceptual structure; lexical relations and the dictionary; the logical structure of language; introduction to speech act theory; understanding non-literal utterances.

LI7870 Advanced Syntactic Theory Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module deals with areas of current debate in syntactic theory and introduces students to the current research literature.

LI7873 Computational Theories of Grammar and Meaning Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module introduces students to current computational models of , and .

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LI7877 The of English Semester: Hilary term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: This module is concerned with the nature and development of L2 grammar, and with grammar as pedagogical content, with specific reference to English.

LI7883 Semester: Michaelmas term Contact hours p/w: 2 hours Assessment: Essay; exercises ECT Weighting: 10 ECTS Description: The goal of this module is to introduce students to ideas and concepts of multilingualism, and to examine situations where three or more languages are present in an individual’s language repertoire or speech community.

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