The course includes the six major fields involved in linguistics studies:
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, lexicology, Syntax and Semantics including definitions and applications of each field .
Course Aims:
Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
Define phonetics and to recognize the organs of speech, place and manner of articulation of vowels and consonants, syllable, Super segments and -phonemes of English language.
Define Morphology and to recognize free morpheme, bound morpheme, derivational and inflectional morphemes.
Define Lexicology, recognize word classes and to practice word formation process.
Define Syntax, construct the types of English sentences (simple , compound, complex, and compound).
Recognize types and functions of Phrase and clauses.
Define Semantics and to practice the applications of synonyms, antonyms, homonym, collocations and idioms.
Course outcomes:
At the end of the course the target students are expected to:
Define phonetics and to recognize the organs of speech, place and manner of articulation of vowels and consonants, syllable, Super segments and -phonemes of English language.
Define Morphology and to recognize free morpheme, bound ,morpheme, derivational and inflectional morphemes.
Define Lexicology, to recognize word classes and to practice word formation process.
Define Syntax, construct the types of English sentences (simple , compound, complex, and compound).
Recognize types and functions of Phrase and clauses.
Define Semantics and to practice the applications of synonyms, antonyms, hyponymy, homonymy, collocations and idioms.