AAE18B LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT

This course aims to help students to develop into systematic and critical observers of language as they use and encounter it in different contexts. As we examine spoken and written texts from across a variety of settings, students will be introduced to a beginner's framework and metalanguage for talking about texts, interactions, and social context. These will enable students not only to appreciate how language works to enable purposeful communication in context, but also to understand how it often works to mask underlying purposes and values. The course also explores how language interacts with the visual mode in texts, encouraging students to consider what is needed for us to understand the increasingly multimodal texts in today's society and what this might mean for them as future teachers of English.