Grammar and Writing (3cr)

Objective

Students should be able to write a properly structured paragraph,coherent arguments, descriptions, a short story, a summary, a comparative essay and a reaction essay.They shouldimprove their writing through peer correction, evaluation, and revising. Students will know the principles of normative grammar on the intermediate level and will be able to teach selected grammatical structures at the primary school level.

Content

Instruction will include analysis of selected types of texts and guidelines for writing them (e.g. comparative essays, argumentative essays, reaction essays, summaries). Students will be familiarized with formal writing and academic style. Students will learn how cohesion markers help clarify expression of ideas and guide a reader through one’s writing. Students will learn how to improve sentence structure and organize information according to genre, e.g. the argumentative paragraph and the essay.
Some writing will be based on readings selected by the teacher and students. A systematic revision of the intermediate grammar with attention to explaining some grammatical points for teaching purposes.

Qualifications

LAPE1622 Teaching other languages: English, Swedish (4 op/ects).
International students: LAPE 1622 Teaching other languages: English, Swedish (3 or 4 ects) OR IEDU 0008 Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) (3 ects), orcourseswith the corresponding content.
International students: CEFR level B2 of English is recommended to follow classes and complete course assignments.A very general assessment of one’s CEFR level can be found here.

http://kaares.ulapland.fi/home/hkunta/ealssen/exss/CEFR.html

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5 - 1/fail based on requirements

Materials

More literature information and extra material
Course materials prepared by the lecturer, English corpora, Internet resources, essays written by students.

Supplementary Literature
Collins Cobuild English Grammar. (1998). London: HarperCollins.
Murphy, R. (2004). English Grammar in Use. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thomson, A.J., & Martinet A.V. (1990). A Practical English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swan, M. (2005). Practical English Usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
resources on EFL writing selected by the lecturer

Further information

Additional information
The course is intended for those students in class teacher education and training who specialize in English. Admission priority will be given to those students, based on prerequisites. Detailed information regarding the course content and assignments will be provided at the first session.

Execution methods

30 contact teaching hours and 50 hours of independent work
Teacher’s presentations, individual writing, collaborative writing, peer correction, redrafting, group work, self-study, interim grammar tests.

Accomplishment methods

Active participation, successful completion of written assignments and delivery of a presentation, interim grammar tests and the end-of-course grammar test.
Active participation in seminars and presentation 1 ectsPass/fail
Written assignments1 ects 5-1/fail
Interim grammar tests and the end-of-course grammartest1 ects 5-1/fail