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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Ilka Flöck

Lehrveranstaltungen

Introduction to the English Language (Vorlesung)

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C HS 5

Inhalt: An overt understanding of language enables teachers to plan, monitor, evaluate and self-correct when teaching and learning a foreign language, such as English. This course, in offering students an introduction to modern linguistics, equips teachers with this essential meta-awareness. We look at the specifics of language structure, such as speech sounds (phonetics and phonology), words and their internal structure (morphology), phrases and sentence structure (syntax), meaning of words and sentences (semantics) and finally also the meaning of utterances in communication (pragmatics).

Interlanguage Pragmatics (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ilka Flöck

Inhalt: The utterances "Clean up the kitchen, will you?", "Would you be so kind as to clean the kitchen?", "Bit dirty in here, don't you think?" can all be understood as attempts by a speaker to get a potential hearer to clean the kitchen. Apart from this similarity are there any differences between these utterances? Would you utter each in all contexts? Or would you prefer specific strategies in different situations? Why do we prefer to be indirect in some situations and direct in others? Native speakers are able to make split second decisions about which linguistic strategy to use in a specific context. However, the development of such sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences cannot be taken for granted in foreign language learners. In fact, it is usually a lengthy process that requires increased attention of learners and their teachers. In this seminar, we will explore how pragmatic competence can be defined and measured in language learners and how language learners have been found to differ pragmatically from native speakers. Since pragmatic errors have the potential of causing severe irritation between interlocutors, it is vital that language learners not only learn to produce grammatically well-formed sentences and have a good pronunciation but also are aware of different pragmatic norms in different languages and become pragmatically competent speakers of English. Students will be expected to engage in empirical research, i.e. to collect and analyse data in groups. This empirical work will form the basis of the module assessment (cf. below)