LING101-08S1 (D) Semester One 2008 (Distance)

The English Language

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 25 February 2008
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2008
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2008
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2008

Description

This course introduces students to the study of the English Language, its words, sounds and sentences. It also introduces the conceptual and analytical tools which linguists use to understand how languages are constructed.

This course is designed to introduce you to the English language and to basic concepts in Linguistics.  It aims to make explicit some of the properties of the language which you as speakers know implicitly.  It is intended as an introductory course and will assume no prior knowledge about how languages work.  

In 2008 ling101 will be offered for the first time by distance learning in semester one.  That means you do not have to be at the University of Canterbury campus, or in Christchurch or in New Zealand to take the course. Distance students will have special learning resources made available to them such as online quizzes, worksheets, tutor assistance, a course manual and lectures on mp3 and cd. This course covers the same material as listed in ling101-08S1(C).

Restrictions

ENGL123, ENGL112, LING111

Course Coordinator

Koenraad Kuiper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Examination 50%
Test 1 20%
Test 2 20%
Practical Session Work 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Gordon, Elizabeth; Phonemic transcription workbook ; Dept. of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, 1993 (Medium: Workbook Purchase from Copy Centre, Central Library).

Kuiper, Koenraad , Allan, W. Scott; An introduction to English language : word, sound, and sentence ; 2nd ed; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $610.00

International fee $2,520.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if less than 1 person applies to enrol.

For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .

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