Modern Theories in English Language Studies

Course: Intercultural Germanistics (German and English)

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Modern Theories in English Language Studies
Code
ОК 05
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
PLO7 To analyse, compare and classify various trends and schools in Linguistics.PLO9 To describe theoretical foundations (concepts, categories, principles, basic notions, etc.) and applied aspects of Linguistics, Germanic Philology, Literary Studies, Methods of Teaching the English Language and Literature, Communication Theory.PLO13 To explain the essence of philological issues, to express personal point of view concerning them and to substantiate it both to specialists and general public, students in particular, in a comprehensible and reasoned form.PLO15 To choose the best research approaches and methods for analysis of specific language, speech or literary material.PLO16 To use specialised conceptual knowledge within Linguistics, Germanic Philology, Literary Studies, Methods of Teaching the English Language and Literature, Communication Theory to solve complex problems, which requires updating and integration of knowledge...
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
English B2-C1, knowledge of the basic linguistic terms and categories, principles of linguistic analysis, semantics and vocabulary, English word-formation, functioning of English in modern communication; ability to use linguistic terms, to collect, analyse and interpret linguistically language and communication facts; ability to discuss linguistic issues.
Course content
The course spans a wide range of issues of Theory of English, its evolution, up to its modern status of a global language, language of cross-cultural communication, the most promising and fruitful trends of the English language studies such as social linguistics, eco-linguistics, experimental phonetics, corpus linguistics, linguistic landscape, multimodality, discourse analysis. The students are offered the assignments to implement and develop creativity, analytical approach, multimodal and multisemiotic skills, linguistic analysis, interpretation of language data.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Theo van Leeuwen Discourse and Practice. New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis.-2008, 185p. John Sinclair Trust the Text. Language, corpus and discourse. Edited with Ronald Carter.- Routledge, 2004.- 223p. Kirk St.Amant Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age.- 2007. - 362p. John A. Bateman Multimodality and Genre A Foundation for the Systematic Analysis of Multimodal Documents.- Palgrave, Macmillan.- 2008.- 333p. Roman Jakobson Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time. Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy, editors With the assistance of Brent Vine1984.-224p. Gunther Kress Theo van Leeuwen Reading Images. The Grammar of Visual Design. Routledge. – 2006.- 321p. Бєлова А.Д. Соціолінгвістика (англійською мовою).- К.:ТОВ Юстон, 2021.-157с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Education during the semester: lectures, seminars, analytical multimedia presentations, independent work, preliminary examination
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment during the semester: • maximum during the semester– 80 points, • analytical multimedia presentations: РН 1.1–1.2, 2.1–2.2, 3.1-3.2 – 80 points • maximum for the test– 20 points, • assessment of РН 1.1–3.2
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Alla Dmitrivna Bielova
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology