Please find a link to your 10 week Language & Linguistics course outline. Please be advised that this is a provisional course outline, therefore topics and sources might change as the course progresses. I've also pasted the same content below, just in case you can't access the file through google docs (Language & Linguistics 10 week course).
EFUP term module outline
Class name: EL Language & Linguistics
Teacher name: Katie Malik
Term start date: 25.03.2013
Week
Subject/Topic
Resources
Coursework/Deadlines
1
25/03/2013- 29/03/2013
What is linguistics?
Linguistics vs. grammar
The scope of linguistics
What is language?
Duality and creativity
Patterning and structure
Origin and role of language
Yule, p.1-7
2
1/04/20013-
5/04/2013
The prescriptive tradition
The equality of languages
The functions of language
Language and identity
Crystal Ch. 1, 2
Llamas & Watt, Part I
Seminar on Language
and Identity based on
reading from Llamas &
Watt
3
8/04/2013-
12/04/2013
The structure of language
Sound patterns
Words and pieces of words
Sentence patterns
Meaning
Yule, p. 29-61; p.100
4
15/04/2013-
19/04/2013
The medium of language
The anatomy and physiology
of speech
Speech perception
Written and spoken language
Sign language
Yule, p. 172
Crystal Ch. 4, 5, 6
Seminar on speech
perception based on:
(1) “Phonetic Processing
by the Speech Perceiving Brain” by Lynne E. Bernstein
(2) “Perceptual
Organisation of Speech” by Robert E. Remez
5
22/04/2013-
26/04/2013
Child language acquisition
Investigating children’s language
Second Language Acquisition
Bilingualism
Yule, p.149
Crystal Ch. 7
Seminar on Bilingualism
based on the article on
the advantages of
bilingualism for the
children of immigrants by
Tanya Golash-Boza; extra
reading:
(1) Piske et al., (2001)
Factors affecting degree
of foreign accent in an
L2:a review. Journal of
Phonetics, 29, 191-215
(2) Zhang, C. (2006) On
Variables Affecting L1
Transfer in L2 Acquisition.
Sino-US English Teaching,
Vol. 3, No. 5
6
29/04/2013-
3/05/2013
The languages of the world
Origins
& Families of languages
& Families of languages
Isolates
Language change
Pidgins and creoles
Yule, p. 182-204
Crystal Ch. 9
Seminar on Language
change
7
6/05/2013-
10/05/2013
Language teaching
The communicative approach
Teaching skills
Classroom techniques
Guest Speaker
Harmer
Monday, 4pm
Deadline for the essay title
submission
8
13/05/2013-
17/05/2013
Language in the world
The language barrier
Translating and interpreting
World languages
Multilingualism
Yule, p. 205-227
Crystal Ch. 10
Extra reading: Casasanto,
L. (n.d.) How Do Listeners
Represent Sociolinguistic
Knowledge? Max Planck
Institute for Psycholinguistics.
9
20/05/2013-
24/05/2013
A history of linguistics
Ideas in language study
20th century linguistics
Towards a universal grammar
Crystal Ch. 11
Monday, 4pm
Deadline for the 1,500
words essay submission
10
27/05/2013-
31/05/2013
Exams
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