Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This course is offered in the first term of the Master’s degree. Its main goal is to familiarize students with the theoretical foundations of one aspect of language, semantics, and its application to the didactics of language teaching and learning. This course, together with the courses on phonetics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax that are also part of the Master’s degree, contributes to a full understanding of language and language acquisition. No prerequisites are needed, but some background in linguistics is recommended. This course will be useful for those students who are interested in teaching English as a foreign language and/or students who want to conduct research on language acquisition and teaching.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

The type of assessment is continuous. Students will be assessed according to their performance in the following two assignments:



- Assignment 1: Class presentation of an article/chapter of a book: 30%

- Assignment 2: Paper: 60%

- Class participation/class attendance: (10%)





Withdrawal from an exam call: Not submitting one of the assignments qualifies as an automatic withdrawal [no presentado/a] from the corresponding call.



Information on the use of resources and materials in the assignments:



Home-assignments: the work submitted by the students must be their own

work and must have been written completely by themselves. The students

must identify and include the source of all facts, ideas, opinions and

viewpoints of others through in-text referencing and the relevant

sources should all be included in the list of references at the end of

their work. Direct quotations from books, journal articles, internet

sources or any other source must be acknowledged and the sources cited

must be identified in the list of references.



Renuncia: Withdrawal from an exam call: Not submitting one of the assignments qualifies as an automatic withdrawal [no presentado/a] from the corresponding call.

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

The mark will be based on the same assignments as in the first call (convocatoria ordinaria).

Those assignments which earned a passing grade in the first call may be kept in the second call.



Marking criteria: The same marking criteria apply as in the first call.



Withdrawal from an exam call: Not submitting one of the assignments qualifies as an automatic withdrawal [no presentado/a] from the corresponding call.



Information on the use of resources and materials in the assignments:



Home-assignments: the work submitted by the students must be their own

work and must have been written completely by themselves. The students

must identify and include the source of all facts, ideas, opinions and

viewpoints of others through in-text referencing and the relevant

sources should all be included in the list of references at the end of

their work. Direct quotations from books, journal articles, internet

sources or any other source must be acknowledged and the sources cited

must be identified in the list of references.

Temario

During the course, the following topics will be addressed:

1. Semantic analysis and didactics of language: setting the scene

2. Prepositions

3. Vocabulary

4. Lexicalization patterns

5. Constructions

6. Word order constructions

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

A list of obligatory articles will be made available on eGela for the students at the beginning of the course.







The students will also be provided with a list of the articles to prepare their class presentation on eGela.







The reading material dealing with the theoretical topics will be supplemented with a number of practical exercises to be carried out in the classroom to ensure full understanding of the issues. Furthermore, the readings will serve as a model for the development of research skills, including that of writing academic papers. The exercises will help students apply the theoretical constructs to language teaching and learning.

Bibliografía básica

Topic 1: Theoretical foundations

Celce-Murcia, Marianne. (1991). Grammar Pedagogy in Second and Foreign Language Teaching. TESOL Quartely 25(3): 459-480.



García Bermejo, María Luisa. (2021). Foreign language education in Spain: A historical view. European Journal of Applied Linguistics 9(1): 115–135.



Topic 2: Prepositions

Tyler, Andrea. (2012). Applying cognitive linguistics to English prepositions. Chapter 5. Cognitive linguistics and second language learning. Routledge.



Topic 3: Vocabulary

Boers, Frank. (2000) Metaphor Awareness and vocabulary retention. Applied Linguistics 21(4): 553-571



Macis, Marijana & Schmitt, Norbert. (2017). The figurative and polysemous nature of collocations and their place in ELT. ELT Journal 71(1): 50-59.



Topic 4: Lexicalization patterns

Cadierno, Teresa. (2008). Motion events in Danish and Spanish: a focus-on-form pedagogical approach. In de Knop, S. and De Rycker, T. (Eds.), Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven, pp. 259-294. Moutoun de Gruyter.



Topic 5: Constructions

Goldberg, Adele & Bencini, Giulia. (2005). Support from Language Processing for a Constructional Approach to Grammar. In Tyler, A., Takada, M., Kim, Y., and Marinova, D. (eds.) Language in use: Cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning, pp. 3-18. Georgetown University Press.



Topic 6: Word order constructions

Blyth, Carl. (2000). Toward a Pedagogical Discourse Grammar: Techniques for Teaching Word-Order Constructions. In Lee, J. and Valdman, A. (Eds.), Form and Meaning: Multiple Perspectives, pp. 183-229. Heinle & Heinle.

Revistas

Some useful journals where you may find some interesting articles for your papers/presentations:







- AILA Review Annual Review of Applied Linguistics



- Applied linguistics Cognitive linguistics



- English Language and Linguistics English Language Teaching journal



- Journal of English for Academic Purposes International Journal of English Studies



- Language Acquisition Language Awareness



- Language Learning Language Teaching Research



- English for Specific Purposes RELC journal



- Review of Cognitive Linguistics TESL Canada journal



- Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada Second Language Research



- Studies in Second Language Acquisition Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching



- System TESOL Quarterly