This course is intended as a practical course on grammar and text reception in English from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. This perspective essentially involves that language acts construct meaning and grammar becomes the study of how meanings are built up through lexical and grammatical choices in order to achieve specific communicative goals. Since the course is mainly addressed to English Studies majors for whom English is a foreign language, a second aim is to develop the students’ communicative competence in English by acquiring a more technical and sophisticated awareness of verbal communication in that language. This increased awareness includes (a) practical awareness (i.e. the capacity to control, manipulate and be creative with language, (b) discursive awareness (i.e. the ability to discuss language in precise terms and engage in formal analysis), and (c) critical awareness (i.e. the capacity to consider language use as the result of and, at the same time, a tool for social and ideological practice). 

If there is a new lockdown and/or any modification to the sections of the teaching guide, the adjustments that need to be made to teaching practices will be announced via Moodle.

This subject will be taught face-to-face as far as is possible within the instructions of the health authorities. At the start of the academic year, the calendar containing all teaching activities (with timetables and classrooms) will be available in the subject's Moodle area.