Welcome to English in the Media
For
Semester 1 2015/2016
This course explores various texts taken from media materials such as newspapers/online news, magazines and advertisements/brochures. This course looks at the language forms and structures of these texts and also the different writing styles. In addition, this course raises awareness of cultural and current issues pertaining to society concerns as a whole that may be embedded in the context. This is to assist students to understand various writing styles that will facilitate them in building their language knowledge and skills in English.
Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to:
Student Learning Hours: Minimum of 2 hours per week (for each unit)
Radina Mohamad Deli
Radina is currently a lecturer at Centre for Language Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She holds a MA degree in Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics (Distinction) from University of Essex, UK. Her principal research interest lies in the field of Psycholinguistics, with a focus on L2 sentence processing. In particular, her MA dissertation deals with the effect of context on the processing of prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity in Malay L2 learners of English.
Ernisa Marzuki
Ernisa is currently a lecturer at Centre for Language Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She holds a MSc degree in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from University of Oxford, UK. Her research interest is in the area of language pragmatics, specifically, the field of pragmalinguistics. This field deals with the selections of semantic formulas used for particular speech acts, based on a given language's linguistic resources.
Chuah Kee Man
Kee Man is currently an English language instructor at Centre for Language Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. He holds a Master of Science degree in Cognitive Science and a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree in Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL). His research interests revolve around technology-enhanced language learning, which covers web- and mobile-based technology, ubiquitous learning, effective instructional design and learning sciences.
Caroline Stian
Caroline is currently an English language instructor at Centre for Language Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature (Hons.) (UM). Her research interest is in English Literature. in which she is interested to study more on Literature from the introduction of old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.
Unit 1 Introduction
Lecture Vid 1: Types of Media Texts and Roles of the Media
Lecture Vid 2: Media Language
What is media?
Unit 2 Introduction
Lecture Vid 1: Functions, Types & Parts of Ads
Lecture Vid 1: Language, Literary Devices & Techniques
Extra: Typography and Words in Advertisements
Unit 3 Introduction
Lecture Vid 1: How to Write a Feature Article
Tutorial: How to Design A Magazine
Unit 4 Introduction
Part 1 - Types and Parts of Newspapers
Part 2: Analysing News Headlines
Unit 5 Introduction
Part 2: How to Write the Letter to the Editor
Unit 6 Introduction
Lecture Vid1: Types and Functions of Social Media
Lecture Vid 2: English in Social Media
Lecture Vid 3: Netiquette
Extra: Decoding Teen Social Media Language
Extra: Social Media and Language
Extra: What is Social Media?
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