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Language Analysis summer semester 2017

Department of English University of Vienna E-tutor
Luke Green

Online tutoring (moodle)

Technical questions (moodle)

*Wed 11.30-13.00, Audimax Making use of e-learning resources
(+ 1x Tues evening & 1x Fri morning)
*Mag Dr Helen Heaney, BA
E-tutors forum
*Office hour: Tuesday 16-17

Tutorials face to face For copyright reasons AND pedagogical

reasons, you are NOT allowed to record this
a
Katharina Schn lecture in any form (no audio, no video, no
photography of slides).

f2f classes: 2-4 pm, Unterrichtsraum

Fridays (dates in moodle)
First session: Friday 17th March

Copy of powerpoint with most slides uploaded

after each session (contents of handout).

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Infoclip fr
StudienbeginnerInnen
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Beratung und Untersttzung fr
Studierende mit Behinderung

Team Barrierefrei Studieren

Student Point
barrierefrei@univie.ac.at
http://barrierefrei.univie.ac.at

StEOP: Modulprfung
LA & ISL1
Required for
Diplomstudium Lehramt UF English
344 /Teacher education studies
NOT REQUIRED FOR BEd!!!
BA English & American Studies
(together with Intro to the Study of Lit and Intro
to Anglophone Cultures and Societies)
5 + 5 ECTS points: ~ 125 + 125 hours
Course details (overview)
Lecture course:
Wed 11.30-13.00, AudiMax (weekly) PLUS
Tue 21.03., 18.30-20.00, C1
Fri 12.05., 08.00-09.30, C1
No lectures in June, only tutorials
Exam: 90 mins, LA + ISL1,
90 MO questions (45 LA, 45 ISL1)
Pass grade: 61% (overall, min. 56%)
Modulprfg. 1: Wed 31 May, 11.30-14.45
Modulprfg. 2: Wed 5 July, 11.30-14.45

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Introduction Course contents

What is this course about? Lecture
Why is it important? Handout
What will you learn? CopyStudio, Schwarzspanierstr. 10
E-learning (moodle)
https://zid.univie.ac.at/elearning-moodle/
Books
List of recommendations
Human resources

Books in the library

(pg. 3-4) Modulprfung LA + ISL1
Collins, Peter; Hollo, Carmella. 2017. English
grammar: an introduction. (3rd ed.). London:
How to sign up (pg. 2)
Macmillian. 45 multiple option questions for
STEOP-Apparat - SGM=STEOP/Language Analysis- each part (90 in all)
1 (red cover, on shelves in the Students Corner, on the Terminology, identification,
right).
explanation (pg. 2)
Grammar books etc: Semesterhandapparat zur LA Information on format and contents
Helen Heaney (Gunther Kaltenbck).
Sample answer sheet
Grammar practice books etc. SUY, SUY-54, first floor
in Self-Access Centre.
Test instructions

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Learning tactics What does grammar do?

Handout (1) *up and he that the in Bill Jane
Practice stand announce spring marry
Moodle forums (2) *Bill stand up announce that he
and Jane marry in the spring.
Study groups
(3) Bill stood up and announced
Tutorials that he and Jane would be
Knowing where to find things on marrying in the Spring.
moodle

(4) Grammar is (5)

Grammar
a. The system by which the words and
morphemes of a language are organised into
large units, particularly into sentences.
Syntax Morphology
b. A particular description of such a system, as
embodied in a set of rules.
c. The branch of linguistics dealing with the
construction of such descriptions and with the
Inflectional
investigation of their properties,
conventionally divided into morphology and
syntax (Trask 1993).

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Grammar and the

description of language Collocation
(6)
homework bed research
make x
do x x
Phonology Grammar Lexicon
number importance trader
big x
large x
great x
sun idea prospects
Syntax Morphology
bright x x x
radiant x

Colligation Form vs. meaning (1)

suggest + -ing Grammatical form = past tense
start + -ing (7) He left at 2 pm yesterday.
start + to
(8) a. It would be better if you
Adjective + preposition left tomorrow.
Noun + preposition
(8) b. I was wondering if I could
borrow your book.

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Prescriptive vs.
Form vs. meaning (2) descriptive grammar (1)
Grammatical form = interrogative cl. a) correct incorrect
(9) Will you be ok? b) formal informal
c) right wrong
(10)a. Will you be quiet! d) standard non-standard
e) grammatical ungrammatical
(10)b. Will you have another f) written spoken
sandwich? g) appropriate - inappropriate

Prescriptive vs. Prescriptive vs.

descriptive (2) descriptive (3)
(11)a. This is the house which he (12) ... to boldly go where no
lives in. man has gone before.

(11)b. This is the house in which (13) We were surprised at them

he lives. being absent.

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Discovering the
Other types of grammar regularities (rules)
Pedagogical Introspection
Reference Elicitation
Traditional It will be great fun _________ there.
Theoretical It was great fun _________ there.
(swimming, to swim)
Corpora
Cf. practice question 1 (pg. 7)

Prescriptive vs.
Corpus searches descriptive (5)
a. She is not very generous to you or I . me
b. We regretted him leaving.  his
Online corpora (pg. 4)
c. If he was poor, would she still be attracted to him?
http://corpus.byu.edu/  were
d. Can I have the salt please?  May
e. Tom earns less money than her.  she (does)
f. We would like to occasionally go away for the
weekend.  We would like to go away for the
weekend occasionally.

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Prescriptive vs.
descriptive (5) To-do list for next week
g. Have you heard about the position which Sue has
applied for?  for which Sue has applied?
h. Answer either question 1, or question 2, or question Buy handout and Collins/Hollo
3.
i. John and Mary love one another.  each other
Recommended further reading
j. Nobody said nothing.  anything Do Practice in handout
k. He tried to successfully implement the programme. Do quiz on moodle
 *He successfully tried to implement the prog.
 ?He tried to implement the prog. successfully. (Tutorials, study groups, etc.)
 He did his best to implement the programme. Look at unit 2