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Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I
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Course Outcomes |
Teaching-Learning Strategies |
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The students will: CO 96. Create a theoretical understanding of the components of language CO 97. Acquire knowledge of linguistic theory and the core areas of language-analysis CO 98. Recognise linguistic and grammatical structures of the English language CO 99. Develop skills to edit, analyze and compose a cohesive and coherent document CO 100. Formulate an understanding of, and comprehend social, psychological and cultural dimensions of language acquisition and development
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Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
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Language and Communication: Human and Non-human communication; Verbal and Non-verbal communication
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Language Change and Variation: Language families; language change; language, mind and society
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Word Classes, Clause Elements and Types
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Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Adverbial Phrases
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The Complex and Compound Sentence, The Verb and its Complementation
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Suggested Readings:
Aichison, Jean. Linguistics. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
Akmajian, Adrai, R.A. Demers, and R.M. Harnish Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication.2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1991.
Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. Routledge, 1996.
Harold, Parmer, F.G. Blandford, and Roger Kingdon. Grammar for English Words. 6th. ed. W. Heffer& Sons, 1970.
Leech, Geoffery. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. Macmillan, 1990.
Littlewood, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. Penguin, 1994.
Randolph,Quirk, and Sydney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Orient Longman, 1973.
Richards, Jack C. and Theodore Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 2nded.Cambridge University Press, 2001.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dT_MlElHo8 (Word Classes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFdJNK1szU (Phrases)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbQ9zB11fA (Complex sentences)
Journals:
Applied Linguistics
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research