Language Awareness

COURSE OUTLINE.docx

J. Outline of topics to be covered (Learning schedule):

For main semesters: This course length (32 periods) will correspond with 8 meetings and a project.

 

Week 1/ Meeting 1

Topic: 

Basic concepts:

Language awareness , and Issues of language learning, and teaching

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia , and Larsen-Freeman: chapter 1

 


Week 2/ Meeting 2

Topic: 

Language standards and systems

Materials: 

Hawkins: Spoken, and Written Language

 

 


Week 3/ Meeting 3

Topic: 

English sounds at the suprasegmental level: stress, rhythm, connected speech, and intonation

Materials: 

Roach: chapters 18, and 19

 

 


Week 4/ Meeting 4

Topic: 

- Sentence properties and propositional content;

- Tense – Aspect – Modality: Viewpoints on events

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freeman: chapters 6, and 7; Comrie: chapters 2, 3 , and 4

 



Week 5/ Meeting 5

Topic: 

- The nominal group in describing people and things;

- Information Packaging

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 6, and 7; Comrie: chapters 2, 3 , and 4

 


Week 6/ Meeting 6

Topic: 

Expansion of the message: Combining clauses

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 14, and 15

 


Week 7/ Meeting 7

Topic: 

Texts and Conversations

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freeman: chapters 17 , and 29

 


Week 8/ Meeting 8

Topic: 

- Texts and Conversations (cont.);

- Review

Materials: 

Celce-Murcia, and Larsen-Freemand: chapters 22, 23 , and 24

 


G.  Textbooks and teaching aids:

1.   Required textbooks:


2.   Suggested materials and textbooks: