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Généralités
- All students are hereby required to form small groups (max 3 members) for their classroom presentations. Once they are done, they need to contact the teacher to schedule them. Students' presentations must support a pedagogy that promotes classroom participation and task engagement. Thus, they need to prepare activities/tasks that encourage group work and collaboration. A formative assessment (TD mark) and feedback will be given to students upon their task completion and performance. The choice of topics will follow the " first come, first served" principle.
SYLLABUS
In this section, students explore the syllabus of LM course (course description, objectives and content). The assessment and grading policy is also explained. Moreover, a list of references for every lecture is provided for students for further details. Reading the syllabus is highly recommended to have better understanding of the course road-map and therefore perform perfectly in class assignments and achieve expected results in achievement tests.
LECTURE 1. ADVANCED VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
Vocabulary development is highly important for advanced learners to promote their lexical competence as vocabulary plays integrated role in learning language receptive and productive skills. In this lecture, students explore the importance of vocabulary learning and mainly advanced lexis. In addition, they will be able to use contextual clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
In the attached book (Nist, S. L. & Mohr, C. (2002). Advancing vocabulary skills. 3rd Ed. Georgia. USA. Twnsend Press), students find intensive words-in context practice organized thematically with controlled feedback at the end of each unit.
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In this video, you will be introduced to the five types of context clues (definition, example, synonym, antonym and inference. These clues would help you find out the meaning of unfamiliar words without referring to the dictionary. The video contains examples for each type.
LECTURE 02. TYPES OF MEANING
In this lecture, students will be introduced to the different aspects of the word meaning to be aware of the ambiguity that may stand against the ideal understanding of the text (spoken or written). Here, we refer mainly to four major types of meaning: polysemy, metaphor, register, and connotations.
For more information about types of meaning, students may check out this reference (Basic semantics).
Rambaud, G. M. (2012). Basic semantics. Madrid. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
This coursebook is of great help for students to further practice types of meaning: polysemy, homonymy, and metaphor. These elements are found in unit 11 (Polysemy/Homonymy) and unit 27 (Metaphor).
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LECTURE 3. FORMULAIC LANGUAGE
Formulaic language consists of fixed expressions that you learn and understand as units rather than as individual words, for example, Greetings and wishes, prepositional phrases, compounds, sayings/proverbs/quotes and idioms/phrasal verbs and collocations.
In this unit, students will be introduced to idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations.
In this handout (source: English Idioms in Use Advanced by Felicity O’Dell and Michael McCarthy), students learn common types of formulaic language, with a particular emphasis on idioms (Idioms are fixed combinations of words whose meaning is often difficult to guess from the meaning of each individual word) besides their use and function in the daily spoken language.
This lesson introduces idioms as a type of formulaic language besides their situations of use.