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This course is designed primarily for ERASMUS and other exchange students who are studying Applied Linguistics, Translation, and similar subjects.
It is worth 3 ECTS points. It is followed by a separate Grammar course in winter semester, which is also worth 3 ECTS points.
The CEFR Level of both courses is C1. The course will be held entirely online, via MS Teams.
The aim is to cover the whole of English grammar in two semesters:
In summer semester, we begin with a brief review of the syntax of sentences and clauses, but from then on we are concerned with grammatical
units "below" the clause, concentrating on the nominal group and the verbal group. We look at the different functions that adjectives have, the rules
for ordering adjectives, and how relative clauses work. Several weeks are devoted to English tenses, contrasting them with the tenses of Spanish,
Italian, French, and German. Finally, we revisit reported speech and reported thought, and look at chained structures like
"she happens to appear to have been trying to want to start looking for a job".
The companion course, which is offered in winter semester, begins by taking a brief look at the grammatical units of English and the functions they serve.
We then study three different dimensions of English clauses: how they are structured as (i) messages (this affects the order in which the parts of the
clause occur); (ii) interpersonal exchanges (here we examine the systems of grammatical mood, including modal verbs and question tags);
and (iii) representations of types of processes, participants, and circumstances (time, place, manner, and the like). The winter semester concludes
with an overview of what is involved in putting clauses together to form larger complexes (apposition, coordination, subordination, quoting, reporting,
and the like). There is also an optional unit on the various forms that nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs can have (morphology).
In each semester, there are weekly exercise sheets, a final oral exam (online), and a mini-assignment to complete.
Assessment will be on the basis of all three of these.
For further information, see:
http://www.spence.saar.de/courses/grammar
Students who prefer to "have all their courses in one place on Moodle" can start here:
https://lms.sulb.uni-saarland.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=2149The latter course runs exactly parallel with groups 2 and 3 of "[spr] Written Expression (Intermediate)"
(Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen; Tuesday or Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.),
so students in fact have three possible times to take my Written Expression course
(Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.).
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