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Linguistics in Practice for Language Teachers III
Tutorial accompanying the lecture “English Linguistics for Educators”
Summer term 2021
Module: 62031000 Introduction to English Linguistics
Tutor: Elaheh Nosratirad
Email address: nosratirad@leuphana.de
Online Classes: Fridays, 12:15-13:45
Office Hours: Via Zoom by appointment only
Course requirements: Regular attendance, reading and reviewing references mentioned in the schedule
below and online participation.
Studienleistung/Assignment: One Written Assignment: Linguistic analysis of an EFL textbook
example (an exercise) using linguistic concepts. This assignment includes 20% of your final mark in the
module. It will be given to you on May 25th 2021. You are asked to upload the assignment in electronic form
to myStudy (Intro to English Linguistic tutorial 3) in the “Assignment” folder by 15.06.2021 at the latest.
Virtual tools
1. Zoom – a video conferencing tool for our weekly tutorials
2. Moodle – a virtual course platform where everything tutorial-related will be stored
3. Slido – a question and answer and polling platform for practicing linguistics concepts
Important!
§ We will have all classes online per live video conference as announced on myStudy on Fridays at 12:15
(tutorial group 3) via three virtual tools explained below (pp. 3-5).
Transitioning to a fully digital mode of teaching and learning might be a challenge for everyone:
§ Unforeseen technical issues may occur and we may need to improvise.
– Please be flexible and be patient!
– If you’re having technical difficulties, please contact the tutor or ask your peers for help!
– Please shout out if you know how to solve an existing problem or want to suggest an improvement.
§ The digital mode requires each of us to quickly adapt to new ways of class communication and
participation.
– The one and only goal of this tutorial is to help you through what is traditionally a challenging module
and prepare you for the final exam. Each week, we will review the lecture content, do exercises and
work on difficult concepts.
– To get the most out of it, you need to participate actively, even if virtual communication may feel
awkward at first.
1Monday lecture Friday tutorial Preparation for
tutorial
5 Ostermontag- 09. April The aims and structure …
April, No lecture of the tutorial and
2021 online classes,
introducing the virtual
tools: Moodle, Zoom
and Slido
12 1. What is 16. April 1.What is linguistics? Read: Justice
April linguistics? Why linguistics for (2004: 1-3, 6-12)
Why linguistics language Dawson & Phelan
for language educators/teachers? (2016: 7-26)
educators? Time for questions,
discussion and
exercises on lecture
one
19 2. Phonetics 23 April 2. Phonetics and Read: Justice
April time for questions, (2004: 13-15)
discussion and Bieswanger &
exercises on phonetics Becker
(2017: 39-58)
26 3. Phonology 30 April 3. Phonology and Read: Justice
April time for questions, (2004: 45-65)
discussion and Mair (1995: 11-18)
exercises on
phonology
3 4. Morphology 7 May 4. Morphology I and Read: Justice
May I time for questions, (2004: 91, 103-117)
discussion and
exercises on
morphology I
10 5. Morphology 14 May 5. Morphology II and Read: Justice
May II time for questions, (2004: 129-143)
discussion and Freeman &
exercises on Freeman
morphology II (2014: 209-222,
228-229)
17 6. Syntax I 21 May 6. Syntax I and Read: Justice
May time for questions, (2004: 91-103, 153-
discussion and 165, 168-169); on
exercises on syntax I Roberts (2017: 63-
74),
Justice (2004: 180-
184)
24 Pfingstmontag 28 May 7. Revision of topics 1–6
May – No lecture - Details on assignment
- Assignment example
31 7. Syntax II 4 June 8. Syntax II and Read: Roberts
May time for questions, (2017: 74-80),
discussion and Justice
exercises on syntax II (2004: 190-198,
209-210)
7 8. Semantics I 11 June 9. Semantics I Read:
June
2time for questions, Bieswanger &
discussion and Becker
exercises on Semantics (2017: 127-138)
I
14 9. Semantics II 18 June 10. Semantics II Read:
June time for questions, Bieswanger &
discussion and Becker
exercises on Semantics (2017: 138-141)
II
21 10. Pragmatics 25 June 11. Pragmatics I Read:
June I time for questions, Plag et al.
discussion and (2015: 181-196)
exercises on
Pragmatics I
28 11. Pragmatics 2 July 12. Pragmatics II Read:
June II /Wrap up -Assignment SolutionPlag et al.
(2015: 200-206)
5 12. Final Exam NO TUTORIAL
July (online) …
Zoom Meetings
https://zoom.us/
About:
§ Each week, a video conference will be held via Zoom to enable live communication between the tutor and
the class.
§ Zoom has an accompanying chat option that can be used to exchange files, messages, ask questions or to
shout out if one’s audio/video isn’t working properly.
§ Finally, Zoom allows the tutor to share her screen with everyone to display slides, exercises and videos,
as well as draw on a virtual whiteboard. This almost completes our virtual classroom (but see also Slido
and Moodle).
§ Students have the option of turning off their video/audio or using a pseudonym. However, students are
strongly advised to not shy away from participating. Staying silent or hidden means that the tutor
cannot assess and react to students’ needs in a proper and timely fashion. Let’s try to make the tutorial as
close to a normal, face-to-face tutorial as possible!
§ Zoom is easy to use once you’ve tried it, so you don’t need to worry. We will use part of our first tutorial
to explore it together, but, if you can, you are welcome to test it for yourself even before that. There are
lots of video tutorials on the Zoom website.
3Moodle
https://moodle.leuphana.de
§ Moodle is a great platform for online or hybrid courses.
§ All tutorial materials, including readings, tasks, presentations, videos and so on will be available there.
§ The tutorial’s Moodle course will be divided into 13 Units, one for each topic in the course.
§ In addition, Moodle has a forum, where all students and the tutor can communicate. Simply start a forum
thread to connect to the others.
§ The tutor will use Moodle to send important messages. These messages will also be sent automatically to
students’ email addresses.
What you need to do to register:
§ In order to register and get access to this course, follow these steps:
– Go to the Moodle homepage (https://moodle.leuphana.de).
– At the bottom of the page, search for the course. The title is: Linguistics in Practice for Language
Teachers – Übung 3. Alternatively, you can use the course code: 1107831.
– You will be asked to log in to Moodle. Use your myStudy username and password.
– In order to register to the course itself, use the following registration key: intro-nosratirad
– That’s it. Take 5 minutes to explore the course layout and functionalities but note that much of the
content will be made available by the tutor each week.
Slido
https://www.sli.do/
§ Slido is a browser-based tool, where students can ask tutorial/content-related questions and vote them up
and down. This will allow the tutor to better react to students learning needs in real time.
– Tip: Students can ask questions throughout the tutorial but it may also be a good idea to write down
questions before the video conference in order to save time.
– Remember: you can always communicate with the tutor during the Zoom conference as well
§ Second, Slido allows the tutor to create all sorts of questions and quizzes for the students, including
multiple-choice (which is the format of the exam!), open-ended, rating questions and so on. This also
makes it possible for the tutor to assess students’ progress in real time.
§ With Slido, you can type in your real name or a pseudonym or simply stay anonymous. So being shy is
not a reason for not participating!
How it works:
§ Slido is really simple. You don’t need to download anything or register.
4§ Instead, the tutor will send you a code to the current Slido session.
§ You then go to the Slido website (https://www.sli.do/) and enter the code. Voilá! You’re ready to start
posing and answering questions and watching the results in real time.
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