Outline some of the salient characteristics/issues related to or emerging from the topic, evaluate their relevance to your own context and discuss whether and how they can help you in classroom and/or life.

Description

For this assignment, you will be given an opportunity to choose a topic of your interest from the list of the topics taught on this module and to prepare a 15-minute presentation. The presentation should be informed by your further reading on the topic and guided by your own life and teaching experiences. During the presentation you should aim to outline some of the salient characteristics/issues related to or emerging from the topic, evaluate their relevance to your own context and discuss whether and how they can help you in classroom and/or life.

It is recommended that you include a task or exercise that shows how your chosen topic can be applied in ELT. Thus the presentation will include a brief summary of the key concepts of the topic, a reasonable analysis of the relationship between this topic and language teaching, a clear rationale for why you have found this topic interesting and/or important and examples of how you think knowledge of this area may help you in your future teaching, learning and other everyday practices.

Note the following:

Make sure that you include a practical application to ELT.

Power point, visualiser or other available visual facilities can be used but there should not be more than three-four slides/pages of information in each presentation. Brevity will be regarded as a virtue!

A handout (maximum 300 words) must be submitted along with the presentation outlining the topic you are focusing on, rationale for your work, its significance in your practice and the references that you have used.

You are not necessarily expected to produce a long list of references to academic literature. However, you will be expected to have consulted relevant and up-to-date reference works on linguistics where necessary, and to be able to use the professional metalanguage of applied linguistics and language teaching appropriately and accurately.

TOPICS:

Language Awareness

Language Typology

Lexicon and Lexical approach

Phonetics and Phonology

Morphology

Syntax.

Reading List:

“The handbook of English Linguistic”, by Bas Aarts; April M. S. McMahon 2006.

“Second Language learning and teaching”, by Vivian Cook 2016

“The Routledge handbook of forensic linguistics”, by Malcolm Coulthard; Alison Johnson 2010

“From corpus to classroom: language use and language teaching”, by Anne O’Keeffe; Michael McCarthy; Ronald Carter 2007.

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