Linguistics for Language Teaching

Catalog description

This course provides a survey of topics in theoretical linguistics with a specific focus on the descriptive grammar of General American English (GAE) and the application of knowledge from theoretical linguistics to the instruction of English as a second or other language. Students learn the basics of GAE phonetics and phonology; including vowels, consonants, diphthongs, pitch and stress; place and manner of articulation; and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). They also learn the basics of GAE morphology and syntax, including the parts of speech, words and their constituents, inflection, sentence types, sentence diagramming, surface and deep structure, and transformational process.