Friday, 12.4.2002, 3.30 p.m. - appr. 6 p.m. and

Saturdays, 8.6. and 22.6.2002, 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. First seminar: 12.4.

Teilnehmer auch: BMECO und MIKK

In this intensive workshop students will have to choose the country (e.g. India) and prepare an analysis of a newspaper and a radio station there using sources from the Internet. They will record the various newspaper text types (e.g. reportage, comments, advertizing), download sound bytes using the Realplayer

http://www.real.com/player/index.html

http://realguide.real.com/tuner/?type=search&pv=&pt=

(i.e. select country and radio station) and prepare HTML versions of their presentations.

The correspondings newspaper webpage is

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com

http://www.59prin.freeserve.co.uk/medianews.htm

As background information the following secondary literature is recommended:

Wells, John (1982). Accents of English, volume 2. Beyond the British Isles: Cambridge University Press

Cheshire, Jenny ed. (1991) English around the world. Sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCrum, Robert/William Cran/Robert MacNeil. The story of English. London: Faber and Faber 1986.

Further online references will be compiled by students on the project webpage below. Since the course can only be taken by students who are familiar with the technology I recommend to acquire the relevant skills as early as possible. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of programming technologies (HTML, at least through the ZIN)

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Suggestions for further study:  ELL tools