Course teacher(s)
Philippe DE BRABANTER (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
The course focuses on what it means to do research in English linguistics.
- it familiarises students with the actual published literature (this year, in sociolinguistics).
- it familiarises students with scientific writing in linguistics.
- it teaches students methods for doing research on a linguistic corpus.
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
The two main goals are:
1. teaching students to write a linguistics paper, which will take the form of a review of the literature relevant to a research question in sociolinguistics. The end product will look every bit like a publishable paper.
2. teaching students how to design and conduct an empirical study involving collection and analysis of corpus data, in order to answer a research question.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Required and Corequired knowledge and skills
| GERM-B300 | CEFRL |
| Oral production | B2 |
| Written production | B2 |
| Listening comprehension | B2+ |
| Reading comprehension | B2+ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages
Teaching methods and learning activities
Weekly lectures:1 credit
Exercises: 1 credit
Personal work (Joint research paper + corpus work): 3 credits
Contribution to the teaching profile
How to identify, make sense of and digest the scientific literature relevant to a particular research topic
How to write an academic paper
How to do empirical research (corpus study)
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Meyerhoff, M. (2018), Introducing Sociolinguistics, 3rd ed., Routledge.
Huddleston, R. & G.K. Pullum 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, C.U.P.
Course notes
- Université virtuelle
Other information
Contacts
MAIL : pdebraba@ulb.ac.be TEL : 02/650.38.12 OFFICE : AZ4.109 Office hours by appointment
Campus
Solbosch
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- written examination
- Oral examination
- Written report
written examination
- Open question with developed answer
Oral examination
Written report
Joint paper (groups of 2): literature review
Individual oral exam on the joint paper.
- Students must have obtained at least 10/20 on the literature review to be allowed to take the oral exam.
Written exam: analysis of corpus data
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
The joint paper is worth 50% of the final mark.
The oral exam is worth 20% of the final mark.
The written exam is worth 30% of the final mark.
In order to be allowed to take the oral exam, students must have obtained at least 10/20 on the paper.
Students who didn't obtain the credits for the course in June will have to redo in August all the parts of the evaluation for which they got less than 10.
Language(s) of evaluation
- english