MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Caution Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

English-in-use: a second language perspective

The English-in-use (EIU) course is designed for students whose first language is other than English. As the course is a study of the functional, theoretical and cultural features of the English language and not a literature-based course, it is a separate subject to English and may not be taken as part of a sequence in English. This allows second language students the option of taking EIU as a separate major or minor sequence and considering English as a possible second major or minor subject within their degree.

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 proposed to be next offered 1997

+ EIU2130 Making sense of the environment: English as the language of action and reflection

Third year

+ EIU3110 English: language and culture

+ EIU3120 English language in use: one mode, many methods (proposed to be offered next in 1997)

+ EIU3210 English discourse: exploration, explanation and demonstration

+ EIU3130 Making sense of the environment: English as the language of action and reflection

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