LING101-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

The English Language

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

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 study of linguistics, particularly the linguistics of the English language.  The aim of the course is to show you how the English language works as a system for connecting speech sounds with meaning.  By the end of the course, you should be able to understand the basic technical terms used by linguists to describe the various systems of which languages are composed: sounds, morphemes and words, phrases and clauses, and meaning.  You should be able to transcribe in broad phonetics a section of written English, understand how to analyse the structure of words into syllables, words into morphemes, and sentences into their grammatical constituents.  The practical classes provide opportunity for you to practice the analytic techniques of the course under supervision.

Restrictions

ENGL123, ENLA101

Course Coordinators

Kevin Watson and Lynn Clark

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Class Test 1 10%
Class Test 2 10%
Essay/assignment (1,500 words) 30%
Quizzes completed on Learn 10%
Final Exam 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence; Kuiper, Koenraad , Allan, W. Scott ; 3rd edition; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Course links

Library portal
The course outline is available on LEARN (only for students enrolled in this course).
LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $619.00

International fee $2,688.00

* 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 Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING101 Occurrences

  • LING101-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012