Participation, qualification, reports

ll participants are expected to participate actively in discussion, project work, and in holding oral reports. These reports are motivated by the teaching/learning concept. They have nothing to do with graded course qualifications but are intended to support the group dynamics of active participation in class discussion and provide feedback from all participants. Course participation will be certified on this basis (Teilnahmeschein).

For a report qualification, additionally a short written version of the report must be prepared.

Reports should be presented according to the following criteria:

• Check my Teaching web page for hints.
• Use media effectively - blackboard, handouts, slides, PowerPoint, ...
• You are not holding the reports for my, since I already know the material - you are targetting your fellow students.
• Whichever media you use, an electronic version should be given to me afterwards, and I will put it on the course website.
• Everybody must actively participate and therefore hold a report.
• If you only need a Teilnahmeschein your report will not be graded (unless you want it to be graded).

In the last part of term, project work will be performed, with groups working on specific issues in English grammar.

If you are planning to do a Hausarbeit, preliminary work for this can be done in your project group, so it is a good idea to think about possible topics earlier in the term.

Term paper plan

Note that the plan has been revised - apologies for any inconvenience thus caused!

The meeting on 8 May will be concerned with corpus work, finding criteria for identifying the parts of speech from the corpus itself.

The meeting on 29 May is cancelled, but the preceding meetings on 15 May and 22 May will be lengthened to compensate for this.

Please re-enter your names in the following list. If any problems arise, please let me know at once by email.

Date Topic First name + surname / group

17.04. Introduction

24.04. Corpus analysis

01.05. - -

08.05. Grammatical relations; further corpus analysis

15.05. Nouns, Pronouns, Determiners, Adjectives, Prepositions, Noun phrases & Prepositional phrases

22.05. Adverbs, Conjunctions, Interjections, Verbs, Verb phrases and verb complements

29.05. - -

05.06. Subordinate and coordinate clauses

12.06. Grammar rules and phrase structure grammars

19.06. Feature structures and lexical items

26.06. Project work: a grammar of a text 03.07. Project work: continuation

10.07. Project work: final discussion