E-Learning : Faculty of Letters & Foreign Languages

Fiche Descriptive du Module

 Module : Linguistique et Phonétique.

 Niveau : Deuxième année

 Unité d’enseignement : Unité Fondamentale

 Crédit : 04 / Coefficient :02 

 Mode d’évaluation : 50 % CC (04/08/08) + 50 % Examen

 

Objectives of the Course

At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to :

 -Develop theoretical knowledge about linguistics and phonetics.

 -Gain knowledge of the different tenets of language structure.

 - Understand   what we mean by different approaches of Linguistics.

 - Make the difference between the traditional approach and the modern approach of language study.

 - Identify the different reasons behind the move from Atomism to Structuralium.

- Understand the modern approaches of language study and their objectives.

- Analyse the structure of the English language at various levels.

- Understand the sounds and sound system of English.

-Be able to identify word stress and sentence stress.

-Understand the aspects of connected speech including : assimilation, elision, linking and juncture.

-Be able to make the difference between American and English pronunciation.

Upon the end of this course, learners will succeed in achieving the following levels of cognitive learning based on Bloom's taxonomy :

1. Knowledge : remember or recall previously learned information in micro-linguistics which involves knowledge of language on a small scale. This includes a definition of language itself, and definitions of its levels : phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics.

2. Comprehension : demonstrate an understanding of the main concepts and thoughts of the linguistic schools, view language from different perspectives, and distinguish between language learning and language acquisition. 

3. Analyze : break down ideas related to linguistic schools, compare and differentiate between them to come up with the similarities, differences and criticisms of the various linguistic thoughts. For example, the fact that behaviorism focused only on the oral observable linguistic behavior and ignored the mental processes involved in the production of language.