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Functional Grammar - LING5011
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistic Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Excluded: ENGL2503, LING2400, LING3903
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

An introduction to Systemic Functional Grammar. Provides a model of grammar which analyses authentic texts in their social context, and which has had a significant impact on education in mother tongue and second/foreign language situations. We develop a set of tools which focus on the lexical and grammatical patterns of a variety of texts from different genres and registers.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be able to:
  • Explain the distinctive features of a functional model of language
  • Describe the ways in which context relates to language through genre and register
  • Analyse linguistics patterns at the level of text, clause and group which express these relations
  • Analyse a wide range of texts in terms of different variables of meaning
  • Apply critical thinking skills in the analysis, interpretation and discussion of texts
  • Identify how the analytical tools apply to issues of language learning and teaching.

Assessment

  • Assignment 1 - 15 %
  • Assignment 2 - 25%
  • Assignment 3 - 60%

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