The Web-based Language & Style Course

Course and Experiment Instructions for investigators/tutors

Materials available (from us)

Besides the WWW-based version of the course (which includes an innovative self-assessment tool based on formative assessment), collaborators will be given:

a master set of handouts (available in electronic form) to use in the lecture-seminar version of the course, and
videotapes of the lectures of the 2001/2 version of the course, so that they can have a flavour of the approach we traditionally use.

The table below provides a breakdown of the Lancaster lecture-seminar version. For a brief summary of what is in each topic, and access to the handouts, click the individual links:

Week	Lecture 1	Seminars	Lecture 2
1	Style, meaning and language levels	SEM	Word classes, style and meaning (1)
2	Word classes, style and meaning (2)	SEM	Deviation, parallelism and foregrounding
3	Sentence structure, style and meaning	SEM	Sounds and meanings
4	Style variation within texts	SEM	Authorial and text style (1)
5	Authorial and text style (2)	SEM	Point of view (1)
6	Reading Week	-	Reading week
7	Point of view (2)	SEM	Speech presentation
8	Prose analysis methodology	SEM	Conversation structure and character
9	Meaning between the lines (1): implicature	SEM	Shared knowledge and absurdist drama
10	Meaning between the lines (2): politeness	SEM	Course round-up

Also available

copies of questionnaires delivered in Lancaster
Student handbook
(i) general information about how to conduct the interviews and (ii) generalised questions for interviews (investigators will almost certainly need to add/change questions in the light of their own investigative circumstances and the questionnaire responses they get)
(i) general information about how to conduct the focus groups and (ii) generalised prompts for focus group discussion (investigators will almost certainly need to add/change prompts in the light of their own investigative circumstances and the questionnaire responses they get)
Access to web-based discussion-board (for teachers and students)
E-mail advice/discussion facility for tutors
Discussion site information

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