PdF:AJ2BP_USAJ Introduction to English - Course Information
AJ2BP_USAJ Introduction to English Language for Teachers
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Helena Havlíčková (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Renata Povolná, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková - Timetable
- Thu 7:00–7:45 učebna 20
- Prerequisites
- Basic linguistic knowledge from the secondary school
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should understand the basis of linguistics and be able to start studying particular branches of linguistics in details.
They will be able to explain the process of language acquisition and use practical applications of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistic and ethnolinguistics in their future teaching carier. - Syllabus
- 1 Linguistics, the scope of linguistics
- 2 Phonetics, phonology and morphology
- 3 Syntax and semantics
- 4 Pragmatics, discourse analysis
- 5 Language types, Indo-European languages, language change
- 6 Some modern schools and movements and educational psychology
- 7 Modern writing systems, writing in the classroom
- 8 Psycholinguistics, language learning stzrategies
- 9 Sociolinguistics, heterogeneous classes, different nationalities in one classroom.
- 10 Ethnolinguistics, learners and their individuality
- 11 Varieties of English, what a language student should learn
- 12 Styles, slang, artificial languages, computer processing of language
- Literature
- Cambridge approaches to linguistics. Edited by Jean Aitchison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. info
- YULE, George. The study of language [Yule, 1996]. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiii, 294. ISBN 0-521-56851-X. info
- RIVERS, Wilga M. Interactive Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 228 s. ISBN 0-521-31108-X. info
- FROMKIN, Victoria and Robert RODMAN. An introduction to language. 4th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988, xiv, 474 s. ISBN 0-03-006532-1. info
- KATZNER, Kenneth. The languages of the world. London: Routledge, 1986, x, 376. ISBN 0415046041. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures plus self-studying. Materials and instructions are available in IS.
- Assessment methods
- The final written test will consist of 10 multiple choice tasks. It will be necessary to solve 7 tasks correctly to get the credits. Lectures are optional. Self-studying is accepted.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- https://is.muni.cz/auth/dok/rfmgr.pl
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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