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What I expect
A range of prior knowledge and interest from none to considerable A need to develop your grammar awareness for professional purposes
A willingness to engage critically with the course Learning with you through discussion
Readings
Set text: Greenbaum & Nelson (see handout) Further independent study: PPTs and HOs on BB for revision Short-loan collection Pre-session activities & keys on BB Extra material on BB
Assessment
Same format and weighting as for Phonology: Grammar Test (1.5 hrs) 37.5% Grammar* Presentation (10 min)
25%
In the written test you will be asked to identify, classify, and (to a lesser extent)
How can I benefit from taking a grammar course? Explicit grammar knowledge can help the teacher with a number of tasks:
to assess the difficulty and clarity of grammar explanations and activities in course and exercise books
to accurately assess the difficulty of texts and examples you might want to use in class
to put together examples and activities for grammar learning which are clear and helpful
Systemic-Functional
Language as structure
Grammar as restrictions on how words can be used Pedagogical approach Michael Lewiss Lexical Approach. (e.g. Lewis 1997)
Purposes Descriptive grammars - to describe what users of the language do Pedagogic grammars - to assist language learners/teachers Theoretical grammars - to model and to investigate for example language acquisition or human language in general Pedagogic grammars in particular are often prescriptive, i.e. they tell the reader what is 'good' grammar.
Grammar Rules describe patterns in language use. take different forms depending on the type of grammar. A formal rule: PP > P + NP NP > (Det) + (Adj) + N
Count
Possessive Noun Singular -0 Not Possessive -0 s
Mass -0
Most countable nouns have a plural form that ends in s. (Parrott 2000:10) We add s to nouns or noun phrases () to show that what follows belongs to them, e.g. the teachers car. (Parrott 2000:13)
A Rule of Thumb
Outline
1. The Sentence; its parts and their functions 2. Noun Phrases & Prepositional Phrases 3. Adjective Phrases, Adverb Phrases and Adverbials 4. Verb Groups, Verb Phrases, Multi-Verbs 5. Tense & Aspect 6. Modality; Conditionals 7. Complex Sentence Structures; Information Focus and Weight. Evaluation