Very advanced users of English as L2 are distinguished from less proficient users perhaps most clearly of all by the extent of their lexical range and control. The central aim of this seminar is to give you the opportunity to extend your lexical resources, enabling you to express precise, idiomatic and finely calibrated meanings appropriate to the context of use. Collocation, colligation and register are three main focuses: that may sound rather dry, but we will approach them via a variety of entertaining and creative activities, and future teachers should also get some ideas for effective and useful ways of working on vocabulary - or rather, on lexico-grammar, since (as is now widely accepted in EFL circles) lexis and grammar cannot and should not be separated.
Please note that the seminar is only required for students who began their studies BEFORE WS 2011/2012 (though it's a useful seminar for any student of English).
Woolard, George (2004). Key Words for Fluency: Upper Intermediate Collocation Practice. London: Thomson ELT. (We will use certain sections of this as a basis for the test you create.)
McCarthy, Michael & O’Dell, Felicity (2008). English Collocations in Use, Advanced Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum |
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kernfach | BaAngBM5; BaAngBM5.1 | Pflicht | 3. | 2 | aktive Teilnahme |
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngBM5; BaAngBM5.1 | Pflicht | 2. | 2 | aktive Teilnahme |
Assessment: In addition to doing homework and participating in a group presentation, you will be expected to keep a lexis notebook throughout the seminar, and to hand it in at the end of the semester. Knowledge of the material covered will be checked in a written exercise (a lexis test developed by the participants) to be handed in by the end of the second week of the semester break.