Course List
TESL3083 Classroom Communication for Language Teachers
语言教师的课堂交际
This course aims to prepare students to undertake language-teaching practicum in a school setting; develop their communication skills as a teacher in an English language classroom; and enhance their awareness of the patterns of classroom interaction and communication of the teacher and the learners.
Check DetailsTESL4053 Language-Teaching Practicum I
语言教学实习 I
This course provides students with practical experience in teaching English in a school setting (primary or secondary), under the guidance of an academic supervisor and a mentor teacher at the host school.
Check DetailsTESL4083 Research Skills in Language Studies and TESOL
语言研习与英语教学研究技巧
This course aims to (1) prepare students to undertake research in a language classroom or to more formally study some language-teaching/language-learning practices; (2) develop the basic research skills in data-gathering and data analysis; and (3) develop students’ ability to read applied linguistic research critically.
Check DetailsENG2063 Children's Literature
儿童文学
This course seeks to examine a wide variety of literature for and about children. It hopes to encourage students to identify and articulate currents of thought in the texts they encounter, to explore the manner of the expression, and to make comparisons where appropriate. Finally, and to a limited degree, the course also endeavours to locate its study within an educational context, regarding literature not only as literature but as a medium of instruction as well.
Check DetailsENG2093 The Short Story
短篇小说
The short story offers a basic introduction to this important genre of literature. Students focus on the critical evaluation of representative short stories by diverse authors from around the world. In doing so, students will be encouraged to identify and articulate currents of thought in the texts they encounter, to explore the manner of the expression, and to make comparisons where appropriate. The course will proceed chronologically and examine precursors of short fiction and then the development of modern and postmodern writing.
Check DetailsENG2113 Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
语用学与话语分析
This course aims to develop an awareness of how meaning is related to linguistic form and how it is conveyed in context, and to equip students with the discourse-analytic tools and skills for studying how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.
Check DetailsENG2123 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
语料库语言学导论
This course aims: (1) for students to become familiar with and be able to use the different kinds of corpora currently available; (2) for students to create their own corpora using available software; (3) for students to analyse data using corpus and come up with their own hypotheses from their analysis; and (4) for students to apply the use of corpus in their professional contexts.
Check DetailsENG2193 Lexis and Morphology
词汇与词法
This course will allow students to develop awareness of how words are formed, how they cross word class boundaries, how words combine together, how languages lose and gain words, and how idioms and metaphor are key elements in the creative and effective production and comprehension of language.
Check DetailsENG2203 Introduction to Western Drama
西方戏剧导论
This course will require students to read, analyse, and perform dramatic works in English. The course will provide an overview of the history of Western drama by examining significant works from the Ancient Greeks via the Renaissance and Victorian eras, up to the contemporary period. It will explore theories and styles of drama and place the specific readings in their social, political, and theoretical contexts. At the same time, it will introduce basic creative processes associated with the production and performance of plays.
Check DetailsENG3023 Introduction to Psycholinguistics
心理语言学导论
This course aims to: (1) introduce the major concepts and theories in the area of Psycholinguistics; (2) demonstrate the importance of these concepts and theories in developing an understanding of language comprehension, language production, and language acquisition; (3) help students develop an understanding of the relationship between language and the processes of the brain and mind.
Check DetailsENG3063 Travel Writing and the Language of Tourism
游记与旅游用语
This course will examine the profound relationship between language and the experiences of travel: how travel narratives create, reinforce and challenge the “truths” about places, peoples and cultures. Besides being introduced to different types of travel writing and the scope of politics in representation, students will examine the language used within tourism industries. They will discover the different ways of and reasons for writing about a journey. Students will also take a few short trips to the Zhuhai and Guangdong area in order to experience an ethnic neighbourhood or a cultural milieu that is not familiar to them. Through short travel narratives, students will also practise the skills in story-telling and narration that are necessary to convey adventure and sensory impressions while expressing a well-informed respect for the subject of their stories.
Check DetailsENG3073 Language and Society
语言与社会
This course explores the interactive relationship between language and society. It aims to make the students aware that a second language cannot be learned effectively if the learning is separated from the social background of the target language. Though learning about the vocabulary and grammar of a language without learning anything at all about its society is in principle possible, social questions are harder to ignore as soon as one starts to consider the language as an object of research. The course focuses on the societal influence on language use and the changes in language structure, with a focus on the English language.
Check DetailsENG3083 Language and Culture
语言与文化
The course aims to (1) demonstrate connections among language and culture, social life, political relations, and personal experience; (2) develop an understanding of different approaches in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology; and (3) foster critical perspectives on the status of English and other languages in China today.
Check DetailsENG3143 Analysing Multimodal Communication
多模态传意分析
This course aims to: develop an awareness of the complexities of contemporary communication, which is achieved not only through language but through a variety of modes, such as image, sound, posture, gaze, gesture, movement, etc.; and equip students with the analytical tools and skills to study how meanings are constructed through multiple modes.
Check DetailsENG3183 Creative Writing for Performance
创意写作与表演
This course will develop creative writing skills and creative aptitude by allowing students to explore and experiment with different genres of writing, within the larger context of performance. The course will cover several types of performance-oriented writing, such as spoken-word and slam poetry, script-writing for stage and radio, and screenwriting. These various modes will offer students the chance to practice composition styles both individually and collaboratively, as well as develop genre-specific knowledges regarding their technical features and conventions. In addition to in-class critiques and peer-review, students will be given the chance to practice and perform for an audience on a regular basis, from which their speech and presentation skills will also be improved.
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