My M.A. thesis sample course

Sep 14, 2012

Hi everyone, 

I´d like to share with you a sample course I developed with Storyline as part of my thesis to get an M.A. in Applied Linguistics.You´ll notice that it´s very linguistically-oriented because , well, it serves my research purposes  

My dissertation is entitled "Linguistic Modeling of Online Tourist Guides and Computer-based applications" and it presents an in-depth linguistic analysis of 60 online tourist guides in order to (1) identify the general organization of this type of texts, (2) identify sentence patterns which can be considered characteristic of this genre and (3) design a computer- based application to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students write effective tourist guides. 

The course was designed by drawing upon the theoretical assumptions of Systemic Functional Linguistics as well as the linguistic and statistical analysis of the corpus. 

Sample course (Version 2 - Updated September, 17th, 2012)

Important note: The course includes links to three external sources that constitute part of my corpus and have been properly acknowledged in my thesis (Credit: © British Tourist Authority 2003, http://www.visitbritain.com/en/EN/ ). Some sample sentences have been extracted from these links only for research purposes:

http://www.visitbritain.com/en/Destinations-and-Maps/History-and-heritage/Oxford.htm

http://www.visitbritain.com/en/Destinations-and-Maps/Cities-and-towns/Cardiff.htm

http://www.visitbritain.com/en/Destinations-and-Maps/Cities-and-towns/London.htm

Have a great day!

Mayra

27 Replies
Mayra Aixa Villar

WOW, Showemimo! I loved your project!

Thank you so much for sharing it and for commenting on my work. I think you should start a new forum thread about children´s teaching methodology.

You said it´s a prototype, I´d love to see the final product to give you an overall feedback because I am sure it´ll be a great learning resource!

Adebare Showemmo

Mayra Aixa Villar said:

WOW, Showemimo! I loved your project!

Thank you so much for sharing it and for commenting on my work. I think you should start a new forum thread about children´s teaching methodology.

You said it´s a prototype, I´d love to see the final product to give you an overall feedback because I am sure it´ll be a great learning resource!

Mayra,

             Thank you very much for your comment. Is just a prototpye, I will share the project when it is completed. The graphic team is working on the graphics now, having seen the possibilities that come with Articulate Storyline for not just adult elearning but for all level of education.

                On a new forum thread about children´s teaching methodology, I am interested because I had BSc/Ed in Curriculum Education for Secondary Education. You can send me a private message on this.

Thanks

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