HENK00042U English, 2013 curriculum - FLA topic 12: Cross cultural pragmatics and language teaching
This course explores cross-cultural norms for communicative behaviour from a foreign language learning perspective: rules governing how to engage in conversation and how to express different speech acts in a polite and appropriate manner. All these conventions of communication differ across cultures and social groups and acquiring pragmatic competence to deal with communicative needs is a difficult and often frustrating task for the foreign language learner. During the course we will look at research on cross-cultural communication across different language groups and discuss developmental studies of pragmatic competence and the transferability of pragmatic skills across languages. A number of theoretical and pedagogical issues related to teaching cross-cultural norms and different proposal for a classroom methodology will be discussed.
Course material will be based on Ishihara, N. and Cohen, A.D. (2010) Teaching and Learning Pragmatics. Where Language and Culture Meet. Longman Applied Linguistics and a number of research articles.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
- Exam registration requirements
This course only leads to exams Free Topic 1A + 1B, Free Topic 2A + 2B, Free Topic 3A + 3B and Free Topic 4A with Written Proficiency in English.
Criteria for exam assesment
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
- Exam registration requirements
This course only leads to exams Free Topic A with Written Proficiency in English.
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK00042U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course Coordinators
- Birgit Henriksen (6-686f786d6f7a466e7b7334717b346a71)