Syllabus
SYLLABUS
Applied linguistics as a discipline
Approaches and attitudes towards teaching grammar and lexis
Contrastive and Developmental L2 Acquisition Issues
Definiteness, Determiners, Articles
Modality, Hypothetical expressions
Tense vs. Aspect
Voice
Various lexical-grammatical phenomena
Various syntactic phenomena
Annotation
The aim of this course of applied linguistics is to provide a meaningful blend of the linguistic knowledge with the teaching process, primarily at upper-secondary school level. The core of the content comprises teaching the English grammar based on students’ linguistic studies of morphology and syntax (langue disciplines).
Students will have the opportunity to work with English course-books, subject the method of presentation of grammatical and lexical categories in these to their critical judgement and suggest their own steps and model sentences so as to teach the grammar phenomena in a suitable, logical, systematic and rememberable way. Students are assumed to be able to analyze the acquisition of selected grammatical and lexical issues from the developmental (sequences of development, interlanguage, fossilisation) and contrastive perspective (theory of transfer, L1 impact on L2 acquisition).