Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This course is a specialized one within the MA program and is taught in the second semester, usually in April and May. One or two invited teachers from different national and/or international universities are invited and the topics they cover vary each academic year. The program usually invites renowned specialists in the different SLA áreas, which has proved to be extremely beneficial for the students. The names of the instructors and the course titles will be available in the flyer of the program, which is uploaded in the MA's webpage. They also appear in the MA's official webpage.



During the academic year 2021-2022 Prof. Karen Roehr-Brackin (University of Essex) will teach the module entitled 'Metalinguistic awareness in language learning' (1.5 ECTS) and Dr. Marlén Izquierdo (UPV/EHU) the module 'Corpus linguistic in SLA: (usefulness and usability of) learner corpora (1.5 ECTS).

Resultados del aprendizaje de la asignatura

Special Topic 1:

• To learn the basics of Corpus Linguistics (CL) and its interaction with SLA and EFL teaching-learning.

• To become aware of the links across CL, SLA and EFL teaching-learning and how they may complement each other.

• To assess the use of Corpus Linguistics in SLA and EFL teaching-learning, by comparing this methodology to other, well-established frameworks in the abovementioned linguistics field.

• To consider in what way (learner) corpus linguistics may be implemented in EFL teaching-learning within the framework of SLA/from an SLA approach.

• To do critical literature review about existing research in (learner) corpora and SLA/EFL, focusing on a given object of study.

• To analyse FL learner data (either written or spoken) and interpret it from a corpus approach.

• To do experimental research within the field of SLA/EFL teaching-learning using the corpus linguistics methodology.

• To improve presenting skills in an academic context and for an academic purpose.

• To promote autonomous and meaningful learning at the tertiary level.



On completion of this Special Topic 1, the learners will have:

• Learnt what CL is and what its main asset as a research methodology is;

• Seen different types of corpora and will have observed what kind of data corpora provide;

• Browsed actual (learner) corpora and attempted data interpretation (for EFL purposes), hence identifying strengths and weaknesses of corpus linguistics tools;

• Learnt about existing research that highlights the crossroads between learner corpora, SLA and EFL teaching-learning, hence gaining a new perspective from which they can approach their data analysis.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Special Topic 1:

Option A. Corpus-based analyses

Option B. Teaching proposal

Option C. Research proposal

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Special Topic 1:

eGela quiz to revise theoretical contents

guided data-driven exercise

Temario

This course is taught by two different invited professors each academic year. The names of the instructors and the course titles will be available in the flyer of the program, which is uploaded in the MA's webpage.

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

Special topic 1:



PPT notes, set readings and corpus exploitation software provided by the teacher.

Bibliografía básica

As mentioned above, we cannot provide references for this course because they will vary each academic year. The students will receive the program with the objectives and learning outcomes of each of the two modules together with the references once the invited professors send them to the MA coordinator.