Browse Hierarchy LANG4002: Introduction to Applied Linguistics

This module invites students to think critically about academic literacies as a set of knowledge-making practices whose rules they need to know in order to do well at university. It locates such thinking in the discipline, or 'paradigm', of the study of language as a constituent element of our social worlds. More specifically, this module is designed to provide students with the basic tools, skills and concepts they need in order to study effectively the broad field of English Language and Communication in a university context. As such, each weekly session will generally be shared between (a) critical consideration of the approach to applied linguistics presented in key readings, and (b) developing skill at the complex genre of academic writing which requires writers to be original and creative whilst conforming to strict norms of reasoned argument, in which each main point needs to be underpinned with reference to academic sources. This is a module for LC students that is designed to cultivate students' skills as independent learners and researchers. Later modules that explicitly help students develop these skills include Research Methods and Dissertation.