Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- display both self-confidence and self-awareness in your studies
- demonstrate written communication skills through the development of ideas and arguments
- show capacity for problem solving, information gathering and presenting your findings
- display individual learning, study and performance skills and time management through your independent learning activities
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Sociolinguistic phenomena relating to language ideology, and sociopsychological phenomena relating to language attitudes;
- how particular beliefs about language, including stereotypes and prejudice, emerge and develop.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- recognise principles underlying the analysis and significance of sociolinguistic data in a global context
- synthesise your own commentaries of sociolinguistic case studies
- evaluate sociolinguistic data using theoretical and methodological models
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 12 |
Completion of assessment task | 26 |
Revision | 20 |
Seminar | 12 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 70 |
Wider reading or practice | 10 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Gal, S. and J. Irvine (2019). Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life. Cambridge: CUP.
Lippi-Green, Rosina (2012). English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States. London: Routledge.
Garrett, Peter (2010). Attitudes to language. Cambridge: CUP.
Milroy, J. and Milroy, L. (2012). Authority in Language Investigating Standard English. London: Routledge.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Research project Report | 40% |
Reflective essay | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Reflective essay | 60% |
Research project Report | 40% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Reflective essay | 60% |
Research project Report | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External