Archive for the ‘Discourse analysis’ Category

minimum adequate speech vocabulary – the words “whatever!”, “I”, “was”, “like”, “yer” and “right!”

mode of discourse – fashion for discourse analysts

placeholder words – “Keep my seat till I get back, can you?”

reeferents – stoners

relevance theory – the idea that TEFL books can only have relevance to your lessons or be based on theory, not both

speech act theory – the idea that talking about it is better than doing anything

Tenor of Discourse (the) – (more…)

British National Corpus – the official body responsible for the death of UK society

CDA – Critical Discourse Analysis – using discourse analysis to slag people off

content words- vocabulary used by happy people

core lexicon – a capsule hidden deep in the earth containing key vocabulary items, to be dug up when (someday soon) the media, politicians and young people become entirely incapable of producing a sentence with meaning

Field of Discourse (the) – (more…)

As I mentioned below, am planning on getting all the video worksheets I have written over the years up on the Worksheets part of the blog. All the first bunch I put up a few days ago use a nice little technique I either created or borrow (can’t remember which now) for pre-teaching vocab and making sure the students notice how it is being used in context and have the meaning reinforced, while at the same time practising the use of expressions like “one” and “it” for refering to things elsewhere, a skill that comes up in reading a lot and is also specifically tested in one of the Cambridge exams (CPE?? Again, slipped my mind I’m afraid). Sounds boring, but actually means teacher and students have a good excuse for watching Frasier, Edward Scissorhands, The Life of Brian and Friends in class.

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