Key Facts

  • Module Tutor(s):Amos Paran
  • Assessed by: Coursework
  • Credit Value: 30
  • Term: Autumn
  • Access: Restricted

Describing and Analysing Language


Course Code:MMALIE_02


This module deals with the nature of human languages, their structure at various levels and the descriptions of that structure. Using a variety of techniques, the module will encourage participants to study and apply analytic tools to language data. Participants will be involved in examining language in use from the perspectives of sound, meaning and structure; how this language varies both over time and geographically, and how it relates to both teachers and learners. Participants will analyse these significant patterns in discourse, phrases, clauses and sentences, transcribe speech sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), characterise samples of language in terms of channel and register, and describe patterns of linguistic variation and change.

This module is also offered online in the Autumn term.


Related Programmes


Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (Distance Learning) MA
Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) MA