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340353 UE Functional grammar and stylistics English (2021S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 34 - Translationswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 09.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 16.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 23.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 13.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 20.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 04.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 11.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 18.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 01.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 08.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 15.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 22.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Course objectives:
Improving the skills you need to interpret and produce grammatically correct standard English texts
Raising your awareness of stylistic features

Content:
We will review grammar and explore a number of grammatical, syntactic and stylistic features. Students are encouraged to suggest topics. Examples: tenses, affixes, gerunds, infinitives, modal verbs, reported speech, clauses, the passive, tense/aspect, conditionals, inversion, word formation.

Method:
Brief lectures, interactive exercises in class; additional exercises on moodle

Assessment and permitted materials

Mid-term test: 40%
End-of-term test: 40%
Written assignments, incl. at least one essay: 20%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

TBA in class and on moodle

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:25