課程名稱 |
(中文) 英語功能語法 (英文) English Grammar |
開課單位 | 應用外語學系 | ||
課程代碼 | L3130 | ||||
授課教師 | 謝富惠 | ||||
學分數 | 2.0 | 必/選修 | 選修 | 開課年級 | 大三 |
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課程概述與目標: The objectives of this course are: (1) to provide a functional perspective to the grammar of the English language, and (2) to help improve students’ competence in using English grammar in their reading and writing. | |||||
教科書 | Hewings, Martin. 2013. Advanced Grammar in Use (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. | ||||
參考教材 | Lock, Graham. 1996. Functional English Grammar. Cambridge University Press. Thompson, Geoff. 2000. Introducing Functional Grammar. Edward ARnold Publishers. |
課程大綱 | 學生學習目標 | 單元學習活動 | 學習成效評量 | 備註 | ||
週 | 單元主題 | 內容綱要 | ||||
1 | Week 1 | Orientation: Responsibilities and Requirements Course Introduction: What is Grammar? The purposes of linguistic analysis Some basic concepts |
Get familiar with the course requirements and some basic concepts of Functional Grammar |
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2 | Week 2 | Representing things (1): Nouns and noun groups countability; noun groups; referrers |
How entities are represented in language |
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3 | Week 3 | Representing things (2): More on noun groups Quantifiers; Partitives; Classifiers |
How languages classify entities |
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4 | Week 4 | Doing and Happening (1): The transitivity of action processes Verb groups; action processes |
To understand different types of verbs |
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5 | Week 5 | Doing and Happening (2): Ergativity, phrasal verbs and phase Causer and Affected; Verbs followed by prepositions; phase |
To know different types of verbs and the functions of verbs |
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6 | Week 6 | Seeing, liking, thinking, wanting, and saying: the transitivity of mental and verbal processes Mental processes; mental-action processes |
To understand the transitivity of different types of verbs |
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7 | Week 7 | Being and having (1): the transitivity of relational and existential processes Attributive relational processes; Identifying relational processes; |
To understand the very intriguing relations between being and having. |
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8 | Week 8 | Being and having (2): the transitivity of relational and existential processes Possessive relational processes; Existential processes |
To know the very intriguing relations between existence and possession. |
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9 | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | Mid-term exam |
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10 | Week 10 | Representing Time (1): Tense and temporal adjuncts The tense system; using tense |
How languages represent time |
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11 | Week 11 | Representing Time (2): Tense and temporal adjuncts The tense system; using tense |
How languages represent time |
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12 | Week 12 | (1) Noun clauses: #32: Reporting people’s words and thoughts #33: Reporting statements: that-clauses #34: Verb+ wh-clauses (2) Pronouns: #60, Reflexive pronouns #61, Indefinite pronouns (3) #62, So, Not #63, Do so, such |
To understand noun clauses, pronouns, and other pro-forms |
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13 | Week 13 | (1) #71, #72: adverbs and adjectives (2) #67, 68: gradable and non-gradable adjectives #73: comparative clauses and phrases (3) #74, 75: adverbs #76: adverbs of place, adverbs of time |
To understand adverbs and adjectives |
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14 | Week 14 | (1) Existential constructions: #95 (2) Inversion: #99, #100 (3) conditionals vs. subjunctive AGU: Units: #83-86 |
To know how to use existential constructions, inversion, and conditionals |
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15 | Week 15 | (1) #87: complex clauses: logical relations between clauses (2) #79: adverbial clauses of time #82: contrast (3) #80: clauses of reasons #81: clauses of purposes |
What messages are conveyed in complex sentences |
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16 | Week 16 | Modals and semi-modals AGU: 15, 16, 17 |
Functions of modals |
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17 | Week 17 | Modals and semi-modals (2) AGU: Units: 18, 19, 20 |
Modals and semi-modals |
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Oral presentation |
18 | Week 18 | Final exam | Final Exam |
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