This course aims to help students to develop an understanding of the relationship between linguistic structures and functional purposes of language use in classroom contexts. It focuses on analysing discourse features in English as second or foreign language classroom contexts. Through analysing the linguistic and functional characteristics of teacher-learner classroom talk and its sequential structures, students will explore the dynamics and potential of classroom interactions, and their impacts on pedagogical effectiveness in a diversity of classroom contexts relevant to students with different learning needs sand backgrounds.

CILO-1: Evaluate written and spoken texts by analyzing the relationships between the contexts of use and linguistic features texts; CILO-2: Identify and describe structural elements, textual patterns and organization of written and spoken texts; CILO-3: Identify and describe how meanings are created and interpreted in written and spoken texts; CILO-4: Critically deconstruct texts from a variety of professional settings to enhance communication skills.