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.
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