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ENG2162 - Contrastive and Learner Language Analysis

Facts about this course: Credits: 10 Teaching semester: Autumn 2011 Examination semester: Autumn 2011 Language of instruction: English Administrated by: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages

Detailed course information - Current and previous semesters: Autumn 2011 Autumn 2010 Spring 2009 Spring 2008 Spring 2007 Spring 2006 Spring 2004

Course content

The course gives an introduction to contrastive analysis and error analysis focusing on a comparison of English and Norwegian and on the analysis of English as produced by Norwegians. The teaching draws on the following text corpora: the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus, the Oslo Multilingual Corpus and the Norwegian component of the International Corpus of Learner English.

Learning outcomes

After completing this course you will be able to:

• discuss some of the problems faced by Norwegians learning English;
• describe similarities and differences between English and Norwegian;
• use electronic text corpora in contrastive and learner language analysis.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisites

The course requires ENG1100 - English Grammar, an introduction or similar knowledge.

Recommended prior knowledge

The course assumes a good proficiency in written and oral English

Overlap

This course overlaps with ENG4162 - Contrastive Analysis and Learner Language.

Teaching

Seminar, two hours per week for 14 weeks, 28 hours in all.

Students must turn in two shorter essays. The essays must be approved before the student can take the final exam.

Attendance is an obligatory class requirement (80%).

Teaching takes place throughout the semester.

Exam information

The evaluation will be based on a take home exam spanning over 3 working days (ca. 10 standard pages).

All assignments handed in for evaluation must be accompanied by an obligatory statement concerning cheating: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/Oblig-statement-cheating.rtf

Previous exams: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG2162/Eksamensoppgaver/Eksamensoppgaver.xml

Language of examination

English

Assessment and grading

The results will be found on the StudentWeb within three weeks after the exam.

Course grades are awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail. Read more about the grading system .

Explanations and appeals

Students can request an explanation of their grades, and can also appeal against their grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals

Possibility of make-up exams and re-takes

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam .

Withdrawing from exams and limits on re-takes

A student can sit for this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do this in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit for the exam.

Exam options for students with special needs

Students may apply for access to alternative exam resources or exam forms on the basis of chronic illness and/or special needs that create a marked disadvantage to other students in the exam situation. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation of this course

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