Module manager: Milada Walková
Email: M.Walkova@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 Jan to 30 Sep, 1 Jun to 31 Jan View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| ELU5001M | Participants, Practices and Pedagogies in Academic Communica |
| ELU5002M | Knowledge, Politics and Cultures in Academia |
| ELU5003M | Text Analysis |
This module is not approved as an Elective
By completing this module, you will develop an ability to conduct independent research or to design teaching in English for Academic Purposes in accordance with current research and scholarship and justify their professional choices. The work required of students on this module is to be done independently, supported by one-to-one supervision.
The module will provide you with an opportunity to consolidate the knowledge acquired throughout the programme and to apply it to a project on a topic of their choice. The project can be research-based and involve situating the project in the existing literature, designing the study, collecting and analysing data, and interpretation and evaluation of the results in relation to pedagogical practice and existing scholarship and research. Alternatively, the project can be orientated professionally and involve a collection of artefacts relevant for pedagogical practice, a rationale for their design, and a critical commentary situating the artefacts within the field.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1- Synthetise in-depth, specialist knowledge of a particular area of scholarship or research interest;
2- Evaluate the implications of their own scholarship or research for professional practice.
Skills Learning Outcomes
3- Critically evaluate current issues and research in a particular area of scholarship or research;
4- Select appropriate methods of analysis for a particular area of scholarship or research;
5- Present original scholarship or research through extended writing
The precise syllabus is to be agreed between the individual student, their supervisor and the module leader. It will combine compulsory units and additional elective units depending on the nature of the project.
Compulsory units may include content such as planning, designing and managing a research project or a portfolio of professional practice, writing up a dissertation or a portfolio, reviewing literature (desk research), and critical analysis of existing scholarship and research.
Content from other modules will be available as elective units.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Lectures | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Independent online learning hours | 6 | ||
| Private study hours | 585 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 9 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 600 | ||
Students will receive formative feedback on dissertation proposal or proposal for portfolio design and feedback on drafts (focusing on methodology and analysis in dissertation or on artefacts and critical analysis in portfolio). The feedback will be provided by project supervisor at regular intervals throughout the module.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Dissertation or Portfolio | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Students choose to work either on a research-based dissertation or a portfolio of professional practice. Early in Semester 3 students indicate their chosen topic to the module leader and are assigned a supervisor.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 03/03/2025
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