Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course is concerned with the upper parts of the grammatical rank scale (of English grammar), focussing on the ranks of (i) the clause, more specifically event schemas, (ii) the sentence, analysing complex sentences such as patterns of clefting, clause-combining and complementation, and (iii) discourse, discussing some topics from text linguistics like reference and conversation structure.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
While the course of English Linguistics 1 discusses semantic categories associated with the noun phrase and verb phrase, English Linguistics 2 will enhance the students' insight into the linguistic units that are higher on the grammatical rank scale, i.e. the clause and the sentence. In addition, it familiarizes students with topics beyond the sentence level, which will make them more conscious of how they can organize their texts (i.e. it will indirectly benefit their writing skills). Students will learn how to analyse authentic language data in terms of the topics discussed in class.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Very good knowledge of English; English Language 1 & 2; English linguistics 1
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
(i) collective sessions;
(ii) optional take-home assignments (to practise the theory seen in class); model solutions will be provided
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
A syllabus will be available at the beginning of the second semester.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Additional information:
A take-home assignment, which accounts for 30% of the overall course grade, and an open-book written exam, which accounts for 70% of the overall course grade.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students should read the ULiège charter on the use of generative artificial intelligence https://www.student.uliege.be/cms/c_19230399/fr/faq-student-charte-uliege-d-utilisation-des-intelligences-artificielles-generatives-dans-les-travaux-universitaires, to which we subscribe for this course.
In the exam, students are not allowed to use any generative AI. For the take-home assignment on reference, such tools are unlikely to be useful. However, students were to use any generative AI tools, they should do so in a responsible, critical, and transparent way. Moreover, they are expected to detail in a separate document (appendix) how and why they used AI tools, and which ones they used. They have to give the prompts they used (in full), as well as what the AI tool returned.
Contacts
Teacher in charge of the course :
An VAN LINDEN
Département de Langues et littératures modernes
Place Cockerill, 3-5
B-4000 Liège
Tel. 04 366 53 60
E-mail: an.vanlinden@uliege.be