Language Awareness
J. Outline of topics to be covered (Learning schedule):
For main semesters: This course length (32 periods) will correspond with 8 meetings and a project.
Week 1/ Meeting 1
Topic:
Basic concepts:
Language awareness , and Issues of language learning, and teaching
Materials:
Celce-Murcia , and Larsen-Freeman: chapter 1
Week 2/ Meeting 2
Topic:
Language standards and systems
Materials:
Hawkins: Spoken, and Written Language
Week 3/ Meeting 3
Topic:
English sounds at the suprasegmental level: stress, rhythm, connected speech, and intonation
Materials:
Roach: chapters 18, and 19
Week 4/ Meeting 4
Topic:
- Sentence properties and propositional content;
- Tense – Aspect – Modality: Viewpoints on events
Materials:
Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freeman: chapters 6, and 7; Comrie: chapters 2, 3 , and 4
Week 5/ Meeting 5
Topic:
- The nominal group in describing people and things;
- Information Packaging
Materials:
Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 6, and 7; Comrie: chapters 2, 3 , and 4
Week 6/ Meeting 6
Topic:
Expansion of the message: Combining clauses
Materials:
Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 14, and 15
Week 7/ Meeting 7
Topic:
Texts and Conversations
Materials:
Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freeman: chapters 17 , and 29
Week 8/ Meeting 8
Topic:
- Texts and Conversations (cont.);
- Review
Materials:
Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 22, 23 , and 24
G. Textbooks and teaching aids:
1. Required textbooks:
Celce-Murcia, M., and Larsen-Freeman, D. (1999). The grammar book: An ESL/ EFL teacher’s course (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Heinle, and Heinle Publishers. Download
McCarthy, M. (2000). Discourse analysis for language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge Language Teaching Library. Download
Parrott, M. (2010). Grammar for English language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
Roach, P. (2009). English phonetics and phonology: A practical course (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
2. Suggested materials and textbooks:
Algeo, J. (2006). British or American English? A handbook of word and grammar patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
Andrews, S. (2007). Teacher language awareness. New York: Cambridge University Press. Download
Comrie, B. (1976). Aspect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
Nunan, D., Berry, R., and Berry, V. (Eds.) (1994). Language awareness in education. University of Hong Kong: Department of Curriculum Studies. Download
Tô Minh Thanh (2011). Vai nghĩa trong câu trần thuật tiếng Việt và tiếng Anh. Tp. Hồ Chí Minh: Nhà xuất bản Đại học Quốc gia Tp. Hồ Chí Minh.
Tô Minh Thanh (2014). The English adverbial of time vs. the Vietnamese range topic of time. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(6), 348-355.
http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ijll.20140206.12.pdf
Tô Minh Thanh (2014). English sentences beginning with there and their Vietnamese counterparts. International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2(6), 391-402.
http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ijll.20140206.19.pdf
Wright, T., and Bolitho, R. (1993). Language awareness: A missing link in language teacher education? ELT Journal, 47, 292-304. Download