Dear all,
As some of you may know, the Pragmatics group at University
College London has been developing a postgraduate Online Course in
Pragmatic Theory, which was run for the first time last year. I'm happy
to announce that we will be running it again from November 2005
to March 2006.
The course consists of 10 written lectures (1 lecture every 2 weeks),
plus self-test questions, plus questions for online discussion.
It is self-contained, with links to online reading, and is intended to
be of interest both to relative beginners and to people quite familiar
with the theory. For further details, see the course home page, on
>http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/courses/dl/prag/announce05.html
Preliminary questions and inquiries should be sent to Stefanie Anyadi
<stefanie@ling.ucl.ac.uk>
Here are a few comments from students who took the course
last year:
Helpfulness of instructors
Very helpful, very friendly. I think the atmosphere has been
very nice and warm and that is a lot due to the instructors.
As I am involved in online teaching (in Chinese) as well,
and very interested in Educational Technology, I have
learned a lot about net pedagogy and it gave me some
ideas on how to develop our courses. You’ve done a great job!
I think all instructors were really helpful. They took part in the
discussion every time it was needed but let the students talk
among themselves first, which is good.
Excellent. They’ve been there for us ALL THE TIME.
I was really surprised that everybody was so available and
supportive. I actually have the feeling that my ‘virtual’ instructors
were more helpful than some of my ‘real’ teachers at university!
Overall assessment. Would you recommend this course to others?
I have only good things to say about this course; it is really
hard for me to find anything that I wasn’t satisfied about. It
definitely exceeded my expectations. I only wish there was
an ‘advanced’ course as well that I could take!
Yes, definitely. I really feel that I learned a lot and that this
course will help me improve my research in the future.
I have already!! This was a great experience for me and
I hope that it will be reiterated for others to benefit from the
opportunity. I am actually quite distraught now that the course
is over… What am I going to do for the rest of the summer?
It was really exciting to ‘meet’ people sharing common scientific
interests. I do hope that we will actually meet in the near future.
I have greatly benefited from this course. It has opened up new
research areas and possibilities of the applicability of the model
or me. I would not hesitate to recommend it. In fact, I have already
done so.
With very best wishes for a happy and productive summer,
Deirdre
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Deirdre Wilson
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
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Tel (0)20 7679 3153
Home phone/fax (0)1865 862470
Home page URL: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/deirdre/home.html
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