Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Applied Linguistics
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-362E.38
- Title
- Elective seminar in Applied Linguistics: English as a Lingua Franca
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- aim of the course: In this 5-credit course, we are going to discuss some intriguing and surprising aspects of ELF, ranging from models of global English, ELF linguistic features, multicultural embedding of ELF, use of ELF in business, media, education domains. The class functions as an open collaborative space, mostly flipped class-fashion with intermittent induction/immersion.
- Course content
- content: 1-2: Models of global Englishes: “All the world’s a stage” 3-4: ELF development: Where is English headed? 5-6: ELF lexis: idiots vs idioms 7-9: ELF syntax: cutting corners 10-11: ELF pronunciation: How to sound right? 12-13: ELF in various domains: business, education, media
- Assessment method
- assessment and grading for the 5 credits: informed and active participation incl. regular HW presentation on a book chapter/article seminar paper written in pairs open-book test based on the set readings and class notes For each component, a 50% pass is needed for a valid final grade.
- Bibliography
- compulsory literature: ca. 10 articles (180-200 pages), e.g. 1 chapter from: Jenkins, Jennifer, Baker, Will & Dewey, Martin (Eds). 2018. The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. London: Routledge.