DISCOURSE

ANALYSIS
PROFESSOR CLAUDIA CAROLINA
RODRIGUEZ ROMERO
CONTENT OF THE COURSE

 UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

(DEFINITION, RELATED DISCIPLINES, DISCOURSE MODES)
 UNIT 2 ORAL DISCOURSE (DEFINITION, TYPES, SPEECH
ACTS & CONVERSATION).
 UNIT 3 WRITTEN DISCOURSE (DEFINITION, COHESION,
COHERENCE, ACADEMIC WRITING
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 ASSISTANT: 80% FINAL EXAM/ 50% RECOVERY EXAM

 ON-LINE ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS: 40 %
 OPINION ESSAY (UNIT 1): 20
 ORAL AND WRITTEN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (UNITS 2 AND 3): 40%
 ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
 MUST BE WRITTEN ON A WORD DOCUMENT.
 MUST INCLUDE A COVER PAGE (THAT SAYS YOUR NAME, THE DATE, THE NAME OF THE ACTIVITY, ETC).
 MUST BE SAVED USING NAME, SURNAME AND THE ACTIVITY/ASSIGNMENT NUMBER EG.: MARY JIMENEZ HERNÁNDEZ ACT. 2
 MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME (After the due date and time, the activity/assignment WILL NOT be accepted).
 ALL THE INFORMATION USED FOR THE WORKS MUST BE PROPERLY CITED ( APA STYLE FOR REFERENCES, CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY).
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES
 Read and answer the questions on the introductory activity 1,
 Continue working with activities 2 and 3,
 For activity 4 you will be working in groups of 4 people so you must go to the cannel you will be assigned to and share your ideas with your classmates,
keep in mind that even if this will be a collaborative work each member of the group MUST submit the results from your work individually.
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY
1. The process of learning skills or getting knowledge.
2. Language acquisition is a natural process and involves ‘picking up’ language in a non-conscious way through exposure to language, not by studying it. Language learning is conscious, intentional,
intentional
involves study and pays attention to grammar rules.
rules
3. Through acquisition, first language acquisition; they get to know its rules through exposure, by being exposed to examples of the language and by using it.
4. The process, and the study of the process, by which people learn a language that is not their native language.
5. Exposure, interaction and focus on form.
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY
6. reading and hearing many different examples of the language all around, everywhere
7. when learners are taking in language, processing it and perhaps silently practising it
8. It allows learners to use the language, to experiment, to make the language work in communication.
9. focusing on the language, to analyse and identify it and practise it
ACTIVITY 2
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
First Language Acquisition Development
Watch the 3 videos on the links below and answer the following questions
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4.
What is input?
When does first language acquisition start? How?
What is telegraphic speech? When does this happen?
What is an overgeneralisation?
ACTIVITY 2
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
5.

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8.
Where does a child’s language come from?
How is language learned at home different from the language developed at school?
How do children acquire and develop their first language?
Summarize the developmental sequences of L1 acquisition. You can use the information on pp. 5 to 15 (pp. 12 to 22 on the pdf)  from “How languages are learned” (Lightbown & Spada, 2017).
 ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS
REQUIREMENTS
 MUST BE WRITTEN ON A WORD DOCUMENT.
 MUST INCLUDE A COVER PAGE (THAT SAYS YOUR NAME, THE DATE, THE NAME OF THE ACTIVITY, ETC).
 MUST BE SAVED USING NAME, SURNAME AND THE ACTIVITY/ASSIGNMENT NUMBER EG.: MARY JIMENEZ ACT. 2
 MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME (After the due date and time, the activity/assignment WILL NOT be accepted).
 ALL THE INFORMATION USED FOR THE WORKS MUST BE PROPERLY CITED ( APA STYLE FOR REFERENCES, CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY).