You get two submissions for each assignment so if you fail the first time you submit you have extra time to fix any errors or add anything you missed. The course tutors will tell you exactly what you need to change for the resubmission. For each assignment there is a submission deadline, if you don't submit on time that counts as your resubmission used so you only have one chance to pass. Knowing that, even if you've only written half the assignment by the deadline it's better to submit as you'll get advise on exactly what else you need to include, and feedback on what you've written so far.
There is a 4500 maximum word limit for all four assignments combined. Each assignment should be between 750-1000 words with the maximum word limit being 1500 for any one assignment.
1 - Language related tasks
The first assignment i did was analysing four sentences (one of which was a phrasal verb). Each of the sentences needed the following covered:
- Meaning/use : explaining when the sentence is used e.g talking about a future event, talking about an event that happened regularly in the past.
- context for presentation: Showing how you would present the structure, such as using the sentence in an example sentence and using a timeline.
- concept checking questions : What questions would you ask the students to check the understand. The questions shouldn't be the sentence rephrased as that's giving them the answer so they still might not understand. e.g for the sentence "she used to drive to work" i wrote the following questions :
Did she drive to work? (yes) More than once? (yes) Does she drive to work now ? (no).
A timeline can also be included in this section of the analyis to check they understand. I said i would draw a timeline on the board and ask the student if she used to drive to work can you mark when that was.
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| The multiple stars show the event happened multiple times in the past. |
- Form : This is breaking down the structure into the different parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adverbs etc. E.g Subject (Third person singular pronoun) + Used + Infinitive OR article + subject + verb.
- Phonology : This is showing the sentence using the phonetic script. There are multiple ways of doing this including:
- Using a dictionary to get the phonemes for each word.
- Using the british council chart online (Click here to view)
- Using an online translator, i would still advise checking the script afterwards as it might not be 100% accurate. (Click here to view)
- The phonemes can be typed using an online phonetic typewriter and copied into a word document, or if you are writting the assignments by hand you can just copy them. (Click here to view)
- Potential problems with form/meaning/use: Explaining any issues learners may have with the structure such as pronunciation, confusion with similar words. False friends (the word may be similar to one in their own language, but have a different meaning)
2- Focus on the learner
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2- Focus on the learner
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