Course Discourse Analysis

This subject provides students with the knowledge of analysing language beyond sentence level to make them aware of the complexity and function of language as a means of communication both written and spoken. It also introduces students to systemic functional linguistic approaches to the study of English grammar and discourse. Topics include: a brief history of the emergence of discourse analyses and systemic functional linguistics, and their contribute to language and learning theory, the role of context, information structure, cohesion and coherence and how those theories can be useful in developing students’ communicative competence, the notions of three metafunctions in language and of the ways in which each of the three metafunctions is said to contribute to the construction of meaning in language; notions of discourse and of the resources with which language builds different texts, both spoken and written language. Lecture activities are carried out through group presentations, discussions, and workshops of application of discourse analyses and SFL in English language teaching. This course uses Project-Based Learning.

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