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E302B - Language Creativity Assignment - Arab Open University, Kuwait
Learning Outcomes - These outcomes represent an initial draft that will need to be refined as the course develops. The course provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
1. Knowledge and understanding:
You are expected to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
1. How English (and other languages) may be used creatively, both in everyday and more literary texts and practices;
2. The diverse forms that creativity/verbal art may take in English; how these relate to the affordance (being able to do or provide something without unacceptable or disadvantageous consequences) of different modes and media, genres and social/cultural contexts.
3. The role of different participants - authors, designers, audiences (listeners, readers, viewers) - in the construction of 'artful' texts and practices;
4. Different theories of creativity/verbal art, including those that focus on 'local' interactional functions and those that appeal to more general explanations - socio-psychological, neurological, evolutionary;
5. Different theoretical and analytical approaches to the study of English/language (including those that privilege texts, those that privilege contextualized language practices, those that insist on a critical approach to texts/practices) and the relative strengths and limitations of these approaches.
6. A wide range of terminology for describing English language texts and practices.
7. How your learning in different parts of the course may be integrated according to the central conceptual strands of the course: how meaning is collaboratively produced through spoken, written and multi-modal communication; the relationships between language and context, language and identity, language and social/cultural diversity, language and power.
2. Cognitive skills:
You are also expected to:
1. Critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of particular theoretical and analytical approaches to the study of language.
2. Apply different approaches to the study and analysis of spoken and written language (including linguistic/textual approaches, ethnographic and practice-based approaches, semiotic and multimodal approaches, literary approaches and critical approaches).
3. Describe and analyze both relevant formal properties of spoken and written texts and how these are used for a range of purposes by speakers and writers.
4. Use appropriate terminology to describe and discuss specific theories, concepts and evidence.
5. Synthesize different points of view, and personal research data in order to reach your own conclusions.
6. Relate theoretical concepts to concrete experience.
3. Key skills:
1. Read academic and other texts critically, identifying and evaluating positions and arguments.
2. Develop research skills, including the ability to gather, sift and organize material and to evaluate its relevance and significance.
3. Use ICT, including the Internet, to access information.
4. Select and synthesize the main points of information, or of an argument, from a variety of sources.
5. Exercise critical judgment about sources of evidence.
6. Develop good practice in the acknowledgement of source material and in the presentation of bibliographies, using appropriate academic conventions.
7. Construct a coherent argument, supported by evidence and clearly focused on the topic under discussion.
8. Present written work to a high standard using the appropriate register and style.
9. Evaluate your own writing, and respond to feedback about improving the effectiveness of writing.
Application of number:
10. Understand, interpret and discuss statistical data in the form of graphs, tables and figures.
4. Practical and/or professional skills:
1. Abstract and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
2. Communicate effectively in writing, selecting an appropriate genre, style and register.
3. Make effective use of ICT (such as word processing and the ability to access, sift and use electronic information).
4. Plan and undertake research.
5. Make independent and analytical judgments.
6. Use and evaluate a variety of means to analyze language data.
7. Evaluate social, political and ethical issues related to language use.
8. Work independently, demonstrating initiative, self-organization and time-management.
TMA Question - In recent years, many political 'counter-spaces' were established. Creative discourses contribute to building these political 'counter-spaces' - Tahrir square and similar platforms can be cases in point.
How do creative discourses contribute to building such political 'counter-spaces'? More specifically, what are the messages that participants want to convey to politicians and the world? What are the participants' aspirations and/or goals?
Notes: This TMA is to be written in between 1400 - 1500 words. Remember that writing your TMA is your chance to show your creativity. You are encouraged to write an introduction and a conclusion. Also try to divide your TMA into integrated paragraphs.
Suggested Resources -
1. Aboelezz, M. (2014). The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square: A study of the relationship between discourse and space. Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 13, no. 4.
2. Fairclough, I. and Fairclough, N. (2013) Political Discourse Analysis: A Method for Advanced Students, London, Routledge.
3. Gribbon, L. and Hawas, S. (2012) 'Signs and signifiers: visual translations of the revolt', in Mehrez, S. (ed.) (2012) Translating Egypt's Revolution: The Language of Tahrir, Cairo, The American University in Cairo Press, pp. 103-142.
4. Jenkins, H., Ford, S. and Green, J. (2013) Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture: Spreadable Media, New York, New York University Press.
5. Martín-Rojo, L. (2014) 'Taking over the square: the role of linguistic practices in contesting urban spaces', Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 623-52.
6. Tawil-Souri, H. (2012). It's Still About the Power of Place. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 5, (1), 86-95.