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21G.213

High-Intermediate Academic Communication

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2004

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Basic Grammar (Parts of Speech, Parts of Sentences, and Sentence Types)
  • Logical Connectors / Connectives
  • Adjustments in Connected Speech
  • Reducing Adverb Clauses
  • Adjective Clauses Appositives
  • Participal Phrases
  • Essay Organization
  • Paraphrase
  • Word / Sentence Stress Debate Gambits
  • Jigsaw Puzzle: A Doctor’s Dilemma
  • Article Usage with “Last” and “Next”
  • Thought Group / Prominence
  • Review of Verb Tenses Tense Shift in Oral Narratives
  • Conditionals
  • Debate #2
  • Presentations
  • Presentations (cont.)
  • Course Wrap-Up

Readings

  • Below are handouts used to complement the homework assigned from the course textbook. See the assignments section for the textbook assignments. ↗
    Listed reading
  • “Editorial: Appositives.” New York Times , 26 September 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Celce-Murcia, Marianne., Donna M. Brinton, and Janet M. Goodwin. “The Generation Gap.” Teaching Pronunciation. Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 266. ISBN: 0521406943.
    Listed reading
  • Larsen-Freeman, Kuehn, and Haccius. “Verb Tense-Aspect as a System: Discourse Hopping vs. Discourse Freezing.” Helping Students Make Appropriate English Verb Tense-Aspect Choices_._ TESOL Journal 11, no. 4.
    Listed reading
  • Azar, Betty Schrampfer. Understanding and Using English Grammar: Chartbook-A Reference Grammar. 3rd ed. Pearson ESL, 1998. ISBN:013958661X.
    Required
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