LING615-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

World Englishes

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

This course explores some of the historical, political and social issues associated with the development of different World Englishes, discussing key structural differences between varieties of English along the way. Of course, for the language professional attempting to operate in this environment (e.g. teacher, writer, editor, policy maker), there are a number of practical challenges: e.g. what type of English should we teach (and endorse)? How do learners' attitudes towards their target variety affect their eventual proficiency? How do we codify new and emerging varieties? These and many more real-world issues associated with policy, planning and pedagogy are tackled in this course.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

Lynn Clark

Lecturer

Kevin Watson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Modelling World Englishes 16 Mar 2020 30% Flexible deadline - refer to Learn
Research proposal & ethics 03 Apr 2020 20% Flexible deadline - refer to Learn
Research report 29 May 2020 50%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,884.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 5 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING615 Occurrences

  • LING615-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020
  • LING615-20S1 (D) Semester One 2020 (Distance)