Students will be able to: 

1. Understand why we study language and linguistics 

2. Use linguistic terminology accurately. 

3. Define the basic terms in the core areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics 

4. Explain the basic concepts and distinctions in the core areas of linguistics 

5. Perform simple linguistic analyses of sounds, words, phrases and sentences 

Students will be able to: 

1. Identify basic parts of speech (verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverb, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions) 

2. Identify the different types of English sentence and phrase structures 

3. Correctly use grammatical elements such as verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, nouns, pronouns, and modals 

4. Correctly spell words after attaching number and tense suffixes to them 

5. Correctly pronounce words after attaching number and tense suffixes to them