Module Details
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Title READING AND WRITING
Code ENGL644
Coordinator Dr MLB Randles
English
L.Randles@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2019-20 Level 7 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Aims

This module aims to help participants recognise and investigate the different demands necessarily made on producers and readers of written texts. It will also offer students the chance to look at some of the hierarchically-arranged levels in the structure of written communication. Both of these strands will of necessity involve introducing participants to some of the templates of written discourse-signalling in order to facilitate the transition from description to practice Throughout, the implications of the insights to language teaching will be explore, and participants will be encouraged to design teaching activities which embody the insights into written text

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Participants will be better able to:
Describe how written discourse reproduces and reconstructs social-discursive practices,
understand and evaluate carefully descriptive insights,
identify the dynamic and constructive features of written discourse in its structuring and presentation of ideas, and
apply these insights in the evaluation and design of teaching materials.

Syllabus
 

Topics covered typically include:
Reasons for reading and writing: establishing a framework Functions and situational contexts'
The interaction between reading and writing,
Process writing,
Product and register,
Text organisation and cohesion,
Lexical and grammatical choices,
General principles of classroom practice, and
Practical guidelines on preparing teaching and materials.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture Description: Teaching Method 2 - Seminar Description:

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 10

 10

         20
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 130
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Assessment 1 Assessment Schedule (When) :2  4000 words    100       

Recommended Texts
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