The web-based Language and Style course, e-learning and stylistics
The web-based Language and Style course, e-learning and stylistics
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基于网络的语言和风格课程、电子学习和文体学
DOI:
10.1177/0963947006066124
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发表时间:
2006
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通讯作者:
P. Plummer
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作者:
M. Short;Beatrix Busse;P. Plummer
This special issue of Language and Literature describes an introductory, interactive, online, (mainly) literary stylistics course, which is available free of charge, and how it has been used in a number of investigations to explore student reactions to learning online how to do stylistic analysis. Web-based Language and Style is an electronic equivalent of a course which has run, in various incarnations, at Lancaster University, UK since the 1980s. It used to be available as part of the Part I (first-year) English offerings and is now available as part of the Part I English Language offerings, under the course mnemonic ‘Ling 131’. Online Language and Style was made freely available in July 2005 at the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) conference at the University of Huddersfield, UK, to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of PALA and to help those wanting to learn or teach stylistic analysis worldwide. It can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/start.htm. Section 2 of this preface describes the structure of the rest of this special issue. Section 3 outlines the nature of the web-based course, how it came to be created and how, in general terms, it has been used for investigative pedagogical purposes. Section 4 describes the course in more detail and relates its structure and philosophy to what has been said more generally about e-learning. Section 5 compares Language and Style with other internet stylistics offerings and other internet courses more generally. Section 6 outlines how other stylistics teachers can use Language and Style in their own pedagogical research, and the support we can offer to those interested in such research. We also provide as an appendix a checklist of things which need to be considered by teachers thinking of using online Language and Style.