Courses taught at Old Dominion University

ENGL 350: Aspects of English Language

An introduction to the grammar of mainstream English. Primary focus is on analyzing English sentences, including study of parts of speech, phrases, clauses, and sentence types.

ENGL 370: English Linguistics

A survey of topics in English linguistics. Topics include the sound system, the structure of words, the ways in which words and phrases form meaningful utterances, the structure of conversations, differences between spoken and written English, language acquisition by children, language variation, and language in its social context.

ENGL 390: TESL Methods, Materials & Assessment

An overview of current trends in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) with a focus on practical application and teacher preparation.

ENGL 495/595: Language and Institutions

An topics course focused on language use in various institutional settings including classrooms, courtrooms, medical visits. The class investigates a range of methodologies and approaches focusing on the ways in which language both reflects and constructs socially and culturally specific institutions.

ENGL 671: Phonology

An examination of the sound systems of natural languages, with emphasis on English and how it differs from other languages. The course includes articulatory and acoustic phonetics with analyses of data and exercises in transcription, as well as introduction to different phonological theories and their assumptions and notations.

ENGL 673: Discourse Analysis
 

The course is a survey of approaches to the analysis of spoken and written discourse. Readings and assignments emphasize issues related to transcription methods, conversational discourse, narrative, social interaction, the influence of prior discourses on texts, and relationships between discourse and power.

 

ENGL 675: Practicum in TESOL

Supervised practice in teaching English to speakers of other languages. This course provides students with practical experience teaching in an ESL classroom, allowing students to implement knowledge gained from other MA coursework into the process of lesson planning, materials development, observations and teaching.

ENGL 677: Communication Across Cultures

An investigation of how language and cultural differences affect communication. This course addresses the connections between language and culture both in terms of the ways in which language may encode aspects of culture similarly or differently as well as how cultural assumptions are often made based on linguistic differences across cultures.

ENGL 705/805: Discourse and Rhetoric Across Cultures

The course is a survey of language use both within and across cultures. Topics include relationships between language and conceptualization (linguistic relativity); description and interpretation of linguistic and rhetorical patterns; the organization, expression, and analysis of cultural meaning (e.g. frames, cultural models, narratives); relational aspects of language use; and literacy practices.

ENGL 763/863: Seminar in Discourse Analysis

This course focuses on relationships among language users, text, grammar, context, and purpose within a discourse perspective. Readings and assignments emphasize theoretical and methodological issues related to interactive discourse, registers and genres, narrative and identity, and language, ideology and power.

ENGL 840: Empirical Research Methods and Project Design

This course focuses on the theory and design of empirical research conducted in academic and nonacademic settings. Students will examine the methodological complexities of ethnography, meta-analysis, feminist research and other approaches.

Linguistics courses taught at the University of Illinois:

EIL 512: Practicum in Teaching ESL

LING 111: Language and Globalization

ANTH 104/LING 104: Talking Culture

LING 100: Introduction to Language Science