LING101-07S1 (C) Semester One 2007

The English Language

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 26 February 2007
End Date: Sunday, 1 July 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 March 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 27 May 2007

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.

Restrictions

ENGL123, ENGL112, LING111

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Koenraad Kuiper

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Test 1 20%
Test 2 20%
Tutorial attendance and preparation 10%
Final examination 50%

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 $590.00

International fee $2,400.00

* 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.

For further information see School of Languages and Cultures .

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