Identifying Data 2015/16
Subject (*) Modelos e teorías lingüísticas e a súa aplicación á lingua inglesa Code 613505007
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013)
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 1st four-month period
 First Obligatoria 3
Language
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Coordinador
Crespo Garcia, Maria Begoña
 E-mail
begona.crespo.garcia@udc.es
Lecturers
Crespo Garcia, Maria Begoña
 E-mail
begona.crespo.garcia@udc.es
Web http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31
General description Esta materia ofrece aos alumnos unha visión dos principais modelos lingüísticos e as suas metodoloxías.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences / results

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences / results
The subject aims to give students a grounding in breadth and depth in Linguistics, by exploring the central features of some of the principal theoretical frameworks, their methodologies, contested areas and uncontested results.

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Preliminaries
2. Formal theoretical framworks
3. Functional theoretical framworks

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies / Results Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Workbook 0 25 25
Directed discussion 7 4 11
Introductory activities 3 3 6
ICT practicals 0 15 15
Collaborative learning 3 2 5
Mind mapping 1 5 6
 
Personalized attention 7 0 7
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Workbook Students will read some basic articles that will allow them to carry out all the required tasks.
Directed discussion Studants will be asked general questions to raise discussions in class. They will have to ground their arguments both in their readings and in the explanations provided in the lectures.
Introductory activities Basing on their readings and lectures students woññ have to answer some brief, general questions in class. Their participation will be taken into account for evaluation.
ICT practicals Quizzes, reviews and other activities that will be uploaded to the UDC teaching plataform.
Collaborative learning Students will prepare presentations about particular aspects of each unit . Such presentations will be carried out in groups.
Mind mapping All along the course students will build a mind map using an electronic tool. Such mind map will be anded in to the teacher as a PDF file at the end.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Directed discussion
Introductory activities
ICT practicals
Description
All activities requiring personalised attention will be monitored by the teacher both iun her office hours, thorugh the teaching platform or by e-mail.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies / Results Description Qualification
Mind mapping 20
Directed discussion 10
ICT practicals Course assigments (both oral and written) 70
 
Assessment comments

Activeparticipation in class: 10%
Course assignments (these may include both written and oral presentations): 70%
Mind map/Short answer test: 20%


Sources of information
Basic

Benson, James D., Michael J. Cummings, William S. Greaves, eds. 1988. Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Brown, Keith, ed. 2006. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier.

Butler, Christopher S. 2006. "Functionalist theories of language". In Keith Brown, ed. The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 4: 696-704.

Cook, Vivian J. & Mark Newson. 2007 [1996]. Chomsky's Universal Grammar. An introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Croft, William & D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Evans, Vyvyan & Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics. An introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide & Javier Valenzuela, eds. 2012. Lingüistica Cognitiva. Barcelona: Anthropos.

Kager, René. 1999. Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCarthy, John J. 2002. A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Langacker, Ronald W. 2008. Cognitive Grammar. A basic introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Taylor, John R. 2002. Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.