The course provides second language students with an opportunity to further their knowledge of the English language through the perspective of the second language speaker. It provides a broad conceptual understanding of the English language, the cognitive and cultural attitudes it engenders and the communicative frameworks it supports.
The course encourages second language students to develop an understanding of their language of instruction by extending their knowledge of the historical, cultural, theoretical and functional features of English that are of specific relevance to them as second language speakers. It includes some of the theoretical issues of English form, function, structure, genre and culture and gives students the opportunity, within a second language perspective, to analyse and evaluate the strengths and the limitations of English as an unique system of communication which functions in a distinct cultural framework to construct meaning.
This course is available to international and non-English-speaking-background students who fulfil the Arts faculty second language entry criteria.
The course
The English in use course offers one subject per semester at each year level. Students interested in taking either a minor or major sequence must complete each subject at the appropriate level. Completion of a first-year sequence plus sixteen points at the second-year level represents a minor sequence in English in use. Completion of a further sixteen points in English in use at the third-year level plus eight points at the second or third-year level represents a major sequence in English in use.
First year
EIU1010 Introduction to English in use: communication
EIU1020 Introduction to English in use: form and structure
Second year
EIU2110 Form and function: English in context
EIU2120 English language in use: one mode, many methods
Third year
EIU3110 English: language and culture
EIU3120 English language in use: one mode, many methods (as for EIU2120 but assessed at third-year level)
EIU3210 English discourse: exploration, explanation and demonstration