ENG 135: PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR

Last Update: December 16, 2004 [post-course]

ENG 135: PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR

English Program, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus

Fall Semester 2003: Mondays & Thursdays, 10.30 am - 12.00 pm — Room 105*

*We will meet four times a week in the first half of the semester (see Syllabus; details in first class).

http://www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes/courses/UCY03F/PG

Kleanthes Grohmann — Email: kleanthes AT punksinscience.org

Office: Room 004, Phone: x2106 — Consultation: MON & THU 3.00-4.00 pm

PLEASE CHECK FIRST CLASS FOR DETAILS REGARDING THE RESTRUCTURING OF THIS COURSE!

DESCRIPTION

The course presents an overview of the grammar of English and focuses on topics in English grammar that are relevant to the EFL teacher. It aims at both improving the students' own English usage and analyzing problems in the English usage of EFL learners. This course offers a descriptive survey of English grammar and as such is the perfect preparation for ENG 235, in which we will apply a theoretical edge to syntactic phenomena.

ASSESSMENT

Regular attendance is strongly suggested! Besides the class lectures, there will be:

1. one in-class mid-term exam covering the first half (Mid-Term Exam counts 20%)

2. one final exam covering everything in the last class (Final Exam counts 40%)

3. one take-home exam covering everything (Take-Home Exam counts 40%)

The format of the in-class exams will be very similar to the exercises we will be doing in class together. The take-home final goes a little beyond practicing grammatical description and will ask you to identify particular problems of grammatical analysis. Details will follow in due time.

READING

There are two required textbooks, i.e. every student must have his/her own copy!

Further references will be given in the first week; selected readings will be distributed in class.

SYLLABUS

Below you find the class-by-class outline of the course. This is the re-revised syllabus as discussed brieflyin class on September 29. After a couple of introductory classes, I will present a week's topic on Mondays (following the structure of van Gelderen's textbook), which will be followed by in-class exercises and discussion (drawing also from Brinton's book, which should just as well be used as complementary background reading, and other sources). [Class handouts will be downloadable as we go from class to class; click here for the introductory OUTLINE handout, which is pretty much identical to this page. And this is the link for the re-revised syllabus.]

September 8: CLASS 1