English Grammar in Context

ENGL 3320EED

Course Guide

ENGL 3320EED

Course Guide

English Grammar in Context

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Course Coordinator:

Dr Winfred Xuan, BA (Huizhou University); MA (Sun Yat-sen University); PhD (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Course Developer:

UK Open University Course Team and Hong Kong Metropolitan University Course Team

Excluded combinations and courses not allowed to be taken again

ENGL 3320EEF

Aims

The overall aim of the course is to show how knowledge and understanding of English grammar can be applied in practical and useful ways. In broad terms, it aims to develop:

an understanding of the major characteristics of English grammar;
skills in grammatical analysis and interpretation in order to gain an insight into how English 'works' in real-life contexts; and
skills in applying grammatical understanding in order to evaluate and, where appropriate, improve the quality of spoken and written texts.

Contents

The course is divided into three macro elements:

Describing the grammar of speech and writing
- The impact of context in grammatical choices in spoken and written English
- The units of grammar: Function and form in spoken and written English
- The functional and structural elements of the noun phrase in speech and writing
- The functional organisation of the verb phrase in speech and writing
- Understanding complexity in and around clauses in spoken and written English
Understanding field, mode and tenor: Interpreting texts
- Ways of speaking: Exploring linguistic variability
- Packaging and staging information
- Positioning and persuading
- The angle on the world
Applying grammatical skills to evaluating everyday texts
- Grammar of social roles and relationships
- Construing human experience: grammar, representation and point of view
- Organising messages
- Making a text hang together: The role of lexical cohesion and grammatical devices

Learning support

There are 10 two-hour tutorials which add up to 20 contact hours in this course.

Assessment

ENGL 3320EED includes both continuous assessments (50%) and a three-hour end-of-course examination (50%).

Electronic submission of assignments

Except for some designated assignments, students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Equipment and software

The materials for ENGL 3320EED consist of the Course Guide, study units in three books (referred to as Books 1–3), a Course Reader, a Concordancer and Corpus CD-ROM, a Guide to the CD-ROMs, a Corpus Tasks booklet, a Glossary, an Assignment File and a manual for face-to-face sessions.

Set book(s)

Biber, D, Conrad, S and Leech, G (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, London, Pearson Education Limited. (This is referred to in the course as the 'reference grammar'.)

The associated grammar workbook (optional pre-course reading):

Biber, D, Conrad, S and Leech, G (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook, London, Pearson Education Limited.