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COURSE FILE

IDENTIFICATION ITEM:

COURSE NAME: Linguistics 1                              Code: 320

CLASS HOUR: Sat 8-11                                         SECTION: 237

OFFICE HOUR: Sat 11-1                                       DATE: Spring 2012           

OFFICE: 280 SARQ campus                                  WEB PAGE: http://staff.ksu.edu.sa/salgoufi/

INSTRUCTOR:  SHATHA ALGOUFI                  EMAIL: [e-mail]            

 

 

DESCRIPTION

The course introduces students to the basic concepts in the major areas of linguistics: phonetics & phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.  

ORGANIZATION

• This basic course assumes that the students don’t have previous knowledge in the field, so the initial emphases are on acquiring those basic concepts in the major areas of linguistics.
• This is a lecture course in which topics are presented and explained by the instructor using different methods (mainly lectures, discussions).
• Students should prepare for the future topics by reading them before they come to class.
•  Homework, two subjective and objective in-terms are given during the course, and there is a comprehensive final exam.
• The course is a prerequisite for the future regular-program courses (ENG. 323 linguistics II and ENG.328 English Phonetics).  

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.  The course aims to train students to think of ‘language’ objectively and enhance their conception of the study of ‘language’ from the widely practiced prescriptive grammar study, to the descriptive study of the grammar of a language in its broader sense: sound system, morphological structure, sentence and phrase structure, and meaning.
2.  It aims to introduce students to the development of the theoretical approaches in linguistics. 
3.  It aims to provide students with the basic tools of descriptive linguistic analysis, e.g. phonetic symbols, morphological notations, tree diagrams, phonological, and transformational rules

 

                COURSE TOPICS

1. The Origins of Language
2. Animals and human language
3. the development of writing
4. The Sounds of language
5. The Sounds Pattern of Language
6. Word Formation process
7. Morphology
8. Grammar
9. Syntax

 

 

              REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:           

George Yule.  The Study of Language.  4^thEdition.  Cambridge University Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

          METHOD OF ASSESSMENT:

Course grading criteria

Midterm (1) 25%

Midterm (2) 25%

HOME WORK 10%

Final Exam 40%

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