GSL 608 - Discourse and Error Analysis

This course introduces students to the most current literature on discourse and error analysis. While it begins with a discussion of the causes of errors that English learners make at the sentence level, it focuses principally on the study of language use beyond the sentence boundary and on language in use as a process that is socially situated. As such, the main objective of this course is the analysis of linguistic forms with respect to the purposes or functions which these forms are designed to serve in human communication. Students in this course become familiar with a framework to identify, describe and explain sentence and discourse level errors. They also learn how to use the results of their language analysis to better help learners acquire their additional language.

Credits: 3 cr.