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PCxG – Can new insights into the nature of language be usefully applied to the teaching of English – even in Bavaria?
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
Time and place: Mon 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar Linguistics gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zufolgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (auf Anfrage!)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-Gym Linguistics
MA English Studies: Modul 9B
MA Linguistik: Modul 2/3
- Contents
- The volutionary development of corpus linguistics in the last few decades has led to new insights into the nature of language. The teaching of foreign languages and in particular the teaching of grammar has remained relatively unaffected by these insights.
This class is concerned with Pedagogical Construction Grammar and an analysis of the ways in which English grammar is presented in textbooks used at German schools. It will be shown how the principles of Pedagogical Construction Grammar can lead to a presentation of grammar that is
- Recommended literature
- Introductory reading: Herbst, Thomas (2016). Foreign language learning is construction learning – what else? Moving towards Pedagogical Construction Grammar. In: Sabine de Knop & Gaëtanelle Gilquin (eds.): Applied Construction Grammar. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter Mouton, 21-51.
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2017:
- Linguistics and Language Teaching B (LingLangTeach B)
- Department: Chair of English Philology and Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Herbst)
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