An Introduction to Socio and Psycholinguistics
What you'll learn
- How a basic knowledge of socio and psycholinguistics helps us understand certain functions of language.
Requirements
- You should be interested in learning about aspects of linguistics.
Description
This is a course for anyone who wishes to delve deeper into how language is structured and how it works so that all of us can make more sense of it. It looks at the social and psychological settings for different communicative events and how we can analyse them. While of particular interest to language teachers and for those who are considering taking on a more advanced programme in Applied Linguistics, this introductory course is also of interest to anyone who wishes to know more about language in use.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in knowing more about language and its analysis.
Course content
- Preview01:00
- Preview20:05
- 04:40Sociolinguistics 02
- 08:28Psycholinguistics 01
- 09:54Psycholinguistics 02
- 05:26Answers to Exercises
Instructor
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Paul Rogers qualified as a teacher in the early 1970s and taught in the UK state system for nearly ten years. He then moved overseas and into adult education, dealing with a variety of tertiary education and training institutes such as Universities, Military Training Colleges and Vocational Education training providers, in both the public and private sectors.
He took a UK M.Sc. degree in the mid 1980s, a US Doctorate in the early 90s and has presented papers on subjects as diverse as teacher training, online learning and modern assessment methodology at various prestigious conferences around the world. In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching in London.
He has written teacher training programs for Aston University and has worked closely with both Leeds and Southampton Universities in the UK, as well as the RAND Corporation (Education Division) in the USA, when he was Program Manager for Initial Teacher Training in the Gulf state of Qatar. He has worked with British Aerospace in Saudi Arabia, the Centre for British Teachers in Oman and Qatar and was Regional Business Manager for EDI (LCCI International Qualifications) in Cyprus and the Middle East. He has been an a member of IATEFL, TESOL and TESOL Arabia as well as being a committed Rotarian. For three years, he worked for the Academic Curriculum and Testing Unit of Saudi Aramco. Most recently, he was Headmaster of Kolej Yayasan UEM, Malaysia’s premier A-level college.