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Course Unit Title	MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE I
Course Unit Code	GRK100
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated	4
Learning Outcomes of the course unit	By the end of the course, the students should be able to: Develop knowledge of text linguistics and stylistics. Recognize the codes and rules of various discourse, text and genre types. Apply various processes and techniques of text production (paraphrase, condensation etc.) Decode the various elements communicative, sociolinguistic and stylistic elements of a text. Critically analyze multimodal texts. Appraise text production as a systematic process, describable, controllable and amenable in rules of deontology.
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Prerequisites	NONE	Co-requisites	NONE
Recommended optional program components	Argiris Arhakis, Teaching of language and text structure, Patakis editions 2005. Jean-Michel Adam, Les textes: types et prototypes, Patakis editions 1999
Course Contents	- Introduction to text linguistics: text and society, text and genre types, stylistics, discourse markers.  - Processes and techniques of text production: paraphrase, condensation, analysis, narrative sequence, argumentation, description. Paragraph types and composition.  - Language teaching and text structure and formation: basic concepts of the discourse oriented language approach and teaching.  - Discourses: different types of Discourses, discourse analysis.  - Text reading and interpretation: communicative, sociolinguistic and stylistic factors. Texts as means of meaning making.  - Literacy: literacy and text. Multiliteracies, multimodality.
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks	Course notes
References	Ilias Matsaguras, School literacy, Grigoris editions, 2009. Guntehr Kress & Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodal Discourse, Hodder Education 2001.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods	Lectures, discussions, assignments
Assessment methods and criteria	Mid term and final examination 100%
Language of instruction	English
Work placement(s)	NO