The Course will enable the students to recognise applied linguistics, advanced grammatical structures and their application, develop linguistic competence and hone writing skills through the correct use of grammatical structures.
Language and Communication: Human and Non-human Communication; Verbal and Non-verbal Communication
Language Change and Variation: Language families; language change; language, mind and society
Word Classes, Clause Elements and Types
Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Adverbial Phrases
The Complex and Compound Sentence, the Verb and its Complementation
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
The students will: CO91. Cultivate a theoretical understanding of the components of language CO92. Explore the knowledge of linguistic theory and the core areas of language-analysis CO93. Examine linguistic and grammatical structures of the English language CO94. Develop skills to edit, analyze and compose a cohesive and coherent document CO95. Formulate an understanding of, and comprehend social, psychological and cultural dimensions of language acquisition and development |
CO96. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.