Topic outline

  • General

  • Meeting 1: Introduction to the Course

    In this meeting, the students are asked to provide some information on things that they have known about Pragmatics, and to tell things that they expect from the course. In addition, this meeting deals with the introduction to Sipejar UM, as a learning management system.

  • Meeting 2: Teaching Pragmatics

    The students are asked to discuss some questions related to the importance of learning pragmatics from the viewpoint of teaching the subject as has been discussed in the articles. Then, they are asked to evaluate the significance of the articles in terms of teaching and learning pragmatics.

    • Bardovi-Harlig & Mahan-Taylor' article File

      The title of the article is "Introduction to teaching pragmatics". The students are asked to read the article and answer the following questions: 

      1. ¨ It is stated that "the teaching of pragmatics aims to facilitate the learners' ability to find socially appropriate language for the situations they encounter". What do you think with the statement? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
      2. ¨It is also mentioned that "classroom is the ideal place in which to help learners interpret language use." As language learners, can you give some examples to support or not support the statement. Why do you think the example support or not support the statement?
      3. ¨In terms of pragmatics that can be taught, she gives the ideas on the characteristics of classroom activities including the use of authentic language samples and input precedes interpretation or production by learners. Explain what it means and give examples from your language classes so far?

    • Brock & Nagasaka's article File

      The title of this article is "teaching Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom? SURE You Can!

      You are asked to answer the following questions:

      1. ¨In communication, it is possible to have pragmatic failure as it "more readily occurs when significant differences exist in the cultural knowledge of interlocutors." Explain what it means and give example based on your own experience. 
      2. ¨Brock propose SURE as steps to teach Pragmatics in the EFL classroom. What does it mean and give examples based on your own context?
      3. ¨Do you think the SURE steps are applicable for students at Eng dept in UM?

    • Teacher's handout on "Teaching Pragmatics" File

      This handout is about some explanation and discussion on the importance of teaching and learning Pragmatics. 

  • Meeting 3: How we choose and how we can't choose

    The meeting is led to the discussion on factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others. In addition, the discussion is also about how our communication reflects our physical being.

    • Pragmatic Failure File
      Please watch the video and answer the following questions:

      1.How many situations can you find in the video?
      2.In general, what happened in those situations you have found?
      3.Do you think that the situations in the video might happen in our daily life?
      4.What might be the factors causing the impressions you have?

    • David Crystal on Pragmatics URL

      The video is about what David Crystal think on Pragmatics. What do you think about it?

    • Teacher's handout for how conversation work File

      This handout is about how we choose what to say and how we can't choose as when we are using the language, it means that we are having the conversation. 

  • Meeting 4: What is Pragmatics?

    The students are managed into four groups focusing on the discussion of linguistic and situational contexts. The discussion is aimed at understanding what pragmatics is about.

  • Meeting 5: What is Pragmatics?

    The meeting is led to the discussion on factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others. In addition, the discussion is also about how our communication reflects our physical being.

  • Meeting 6: An introduction to Corpus Linguistics in Pragmatics

    The students are asked to list some technical terms from the article about corpus linguistics. Then, they are asked to discuss and share what they have read about corpus linguistics.

    In addition, they are also exposed to spoken corpus, i.e. UMSpeaks and/or ICE.

    • Conrad's article File

      This article is entitled "Corpus linguistic approaches for discourse analysis". It discusses some approaches in corpus linguistics.

  • Meeting 7: An introduction to Corpus Linguistics in Pragmatics

    The students are asked to list some technical terms from the article about corpus linguistics. Then, they are asked to discuss and share what they have read about corpus linguistics.

    In addition, they are also exposed to spoken corpus, i.e. UMSpeaks and/or ICE.

  • Meeting 8: Midtest Term

    In this meeting, the students are asked to do in-class exam related to teaching pragmatics, how we choose and can’t choose to say, and also about corpus linguistics

    • Meeting 9: Hedging in Written Corpus

      This meeting deals with the discussion on example of previous research on corpus data related to written texts.

      • Hyland's article File

        The title of this article is "Talking to the academy: Forms of hedging in science research articles, from Written Communication journal. 

    • Meeting 10: Discourse Markers in Spoken Corpus

      This meeting deals with the discussion on example of previous research on corpus data related to written texts.

    • Meeting 11: A Study on C-SMILE

      This meeting deals with the discussion on example of previous research on CSMILE

      • Yannuar et al's article File

        The title of the article is "Active and passive voice constructions by Indonesian student writers", from Theory and Practice in Language studies journal. 

    • Meeting 12: Infographics Workshop

      This meeting deals with a workshop on how the students might publish the result of their analysis on corpus data, ICE and UMSpEAKs

      • Teacher's handout on infographics File

        This material is about things that the students might need to consider to publish their works in infographics and they are exposed to some templates online. 

    • Meeting 13 -15: Group Presentation

      The students are asked to analyze corpus data based on Pragmatics aspects such as Speech Acts, Hedging, and Discourse Markers.

      The students are asked to publish the result of their analysis in the form of Infographics and upload it via Sipejar and present it in class.

      • Meeting 16: Final Exam

        The students are asked to revise their infographics based on the inputs and suggestions and upload it via Sipejar.

        • Final Project Assignment

          The assignment requires you to compose a mini report in the form of Infographics for your mini-research that concerns on observing the language use on UMSpeaks and ICE.