Study Programmes 2016-2017
| LGER0078-3 | ||
| English language 3 (minor) | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Marie Herbillon | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Learning unit contents :
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| The course is based on a 'close reading' approach to a recent English text, namely Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language (Penguin, 2009), and to a series of articles excerpted from newspapers or magazines and written in a complex language. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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| A deeper look at how morpho-syntactic and semantic 'rules' are exemplified in runniing text; an effort at improving the lexical competence of non-native speakers of English. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Very good command of the English language; Langue anglaise II and Linguistique I. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The (thematically varied) texts the students are requested to prepare at home are then analysed and commented upon in class.
After several introductory sessions, each group of 4 to 5 students must make an oral presentation (approximately 30 minutes) aiming at applying the methodology developed in class (identification of lexical, syntactic and stylistic specificities, etc.) to Bill Bryson's text. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| in-class course, Thursdays 2-4pm, first semester | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A selection of recent articles (addressing a range of topics and offering a variety of linguistic difficulties) are emailed to the students, posted on MyULg or handed out in class.
The students are also invited to get a copy of Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The oral presentation will account for 20% of the final grade.
Written and oral exams at the end of the course (80% of the final mark): the written exam will be based on a text that has not been discussed collectively but deals with issues covered in class (and requiring the use of the analytical methodology applied throughout the semester). The final exam may also include questions (translation of excerpts, analysis of specific linguistic problems) on texts examined in class. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| This course is taught in English. | ||
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Contacts :
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| Lecturer in charge of the course: Marie Herbillon, maître de conférences Département de Langues et littératures modernes Place Cockerill 3-5 B-4000 Liège Email: marie.herbillon@ulg.ac.be(amichiels@ulg.ac.be) | ||