Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Conversation Analysis (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emily Black
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 04.04.2016 - 10.07.2016 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: In order to hold a conversation in any language, is proper grammar enough? Good pronunciation? Knowledge of vocabulary? Before answering these questions, answer this: what is the minimum requirement for a conversation to occur? Two people of course. In a conversation a minimum of two people take turns speaking and in the course of conversation speakers create meaning, action, and understanding. For example, knowledge of modal verbs is important to the ability to perform a polite request in English, but is this knowledge enough? Would you approach a professor at an English university and with no introduction say “Could you extend my deadline?” Or would this request take place over a number of speaking turns? How would you begin? This course introduces students to the methods of Conversation Analysis and the concept of Interactional Competence. The course will revolve around the various systematic verbal and nonverbal methods participants employ to engage in interaction, otherwise known as interactional practices. These include: 1. Ways to construct and allocate turns in conversation; 2. Ways to initiate and respond to actions such as offers, requests and complaints; 3. Ways to open and close conversations; 4. Ways to repair problems of understanding in conversation. Students will not only gain an understanding of these practices, but they will also consider how such knowledge can be incorporated into their teaching.
Understanding Interactional Practices, Teaching Interactional Competence (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emily Black
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 04.04.2016 - 10.07.2016 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: In order to hold a conversation in any language, is proper grammar enough? Good pronunciation? Knowledge of vocabulary? Before answering these questions, answer this: what is the minimum requirement for a conversation to occur? Two people of course. In a conversation a minimum of two people take turns speaking and in the course of conversation speakers create meaning, action, and understanding. For example, knowledge of modal verbs is important to the ability to perform a polite request in English, but is this knowledge enough? Would you approach a professor at an English university and with no introduction say “Could you extend my deadline?” Or would this request take place over a number of speaking turns? How would you begin? This course introduces students to the methods of Conversation Analysis and the concept of Interactional Competence. The course will revolve around the various systematic verbal and nonverbal methods participants employ to engage in interaction, otherwise known as interactional practices. These include: 1. Ways to construct and allocate turns in conversation; 2. Ways to initiate and respond to actions such as offers, requests and complaints; 3. Ways to open and close conversations; 4. Ways to repair problems of understanding in conversation. Students will not only gain an understanding of these practices, but they will also consider how such knowledge can be incorporated into their teaching.