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FACULDADE DE LETRAS ESPECIALIZAÇÃO ENSINO DE LÍNGUA INGLESA 2009/2 Discourse and Foreign Language Teaching | |||
| Week | Presenter/ Moderator | Content | Details |
| 1 (10-15/08) | Kátia | INTRODUCTION TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS | This week, all students should read the text: CELCE-MURCIA & OLSHTAIN (2000). Chapter 1 : Introduction to Discourse Analysis (p.1-18) |
| 2 (17-22/08) | Forum Discussion | This week, all students should | |
| 3 (24-29/08) | All groups | | During these two weeks, all groups should study the texts that have been assigned to them and prepare the on-line seminar to their topic. |
| 4 (31-05/09) | |||
| 5 (07-12/09) | READING | During these three weeks, all students should read the other groups' texts and watch their on-line presentations. | |
| 6 (14-19/09) | |||
| 7 (21-26/09) | |||
| 8 28/09-03/10) | FORUM DISCUSSION Each group will have its own discussion forum, listed at top right hand corner of this page. | During this week, all students should engage in the discussions taking place in each of the forums. Each group will be responsible for the moderation of the forum used to discuss the theme they were in charge of. | |
| Deadlines for Assignment Submission (mailing as an attachment to katia_valerio@yahoo.com.br ) | |
| Powerpoint presentations | 07/09 |
| Final Paper | 25/10 |
| ASSESSMENT | |
| On-line Seminars | |
| Your group will prepare a powerpoint presentation to be included in our website. Check http://www.actden.com/pp2003/ if you have never used the Powerpoint. The presentation must include a blend of the information provided by the article assigned to you. On September 7th, you will e-mail the presentation as an attachment to katia_valerio@yahoo.com.br | |
| Topic coverage (if you have include and highlited the main points contained in the two articles as a whole) | 10 |
| Accuracy (if you have presented the concepts adequately) | 10 |
| Objectivity and clarity | 10 |
| Organization & creativity | 10 |
| TOTAL | 40 marks |
| Forum Discussion | |
| From September 7th to October 3rd, your group you will be in charge of a discussion around your topic in the Forum assigned to you (I'll intervene only after you have tried to solve your doubts yourselves). | |
| Moderators (members of the group in charge of the topic) | 20 marks |
| Final Paper | |
| Your group will write a critical appraisal of an activity (or a set of them - a lesson or unit, for example) prepared by one or more group members taking into account the discursive aspects it deals or could deal with. You should make suggestions to improve the activity and include a rationale for all the procedures involved; that is, all pedagogical choices should be justified. Your Final Paper should be e-mailed as an attachment to katia_valerio@yahoo.com.br | |
| Rationale (coherence, adequacy and coverage) | 20 |
| Discourse basis | 20 |
| TOTAL | 40 marks |
Preliminary Bibliography:
BOXER, D. Discourse issues in cross-cultural pragmatics. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 22:150-167. 2002.
CELCE-MURCIA, Marianne e OLSHTAIN, Elite. Discourse and language teaching; a guide for language teachers.
JUNG, Ji-Jung. Issues in Acquisitional pragmatics. In: Working papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2001.
MCCARTHY, M. Discourse analysis for language teachers.
PALTRIDGE, B. Genre and the language learning classroom.