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  • Course Details

    University: University ofAbou-Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen

    Faculty: Letters and Languages

    Department: Foreign languages- Section of English

    Module: Linguistic Sciences

    Level: M1

    Semester: S1+ S2

    Unit Type:  Fundamental

    Coefficient:1

    Credit:

    Class Meeting Time:  3 sessions online +1on-site

    Class Location:

    Course Period: 90min

    Instructor Name: Dr. Soraya HALFAOUI

    Email Address: sorayahalfaoui@gmail.com

    Office Hours: available online from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm


  • Introduction to Linguistic Sciences

    • Language and Linguistics

    • Language as a Means of Communication

      • Language and Culture

        Culture is intrinsic to language. Acquiring rudimentary knowledge about a foreign language will not help to build communicative competence. Language derives its meaning from the socio-cultural activities that people enroll in.  During this lecture, students will gain some insights about how culture interconnects to language through different hypotheses, as well as question how can we deal with issues related to culture when teaching English as far as comprehension and translation are concerned.

      • Levels of Language Analysis: Morphology

         Raising awareness about the Morphological level of language analysis of prospective EFL teachers is an absolute necessity. It has direct implications for the teaching of reading and writing skills. Any language teacher should be equipped to face challenges related to the language development of his learners. teaching confidently a foreign language requires the building of a holistic understanding of the different levels of the language per se. In this chapter, the focus will be on shedding light on the importance of Morphology, from both a linguistic and a didactic point of view. 

      • Levels of Language Analysis: Phonology

         When we study language development, the phonological aspect is the primary level that we refer to. Sounds' articulation and combination are the first skills that humans acquire to build their language. From a more pedagogical perspective, investigating Phonology has a lot of advantages.  As a foreign language teacher, it is a major concern to identify and analyze how these smallest linguistic units relate to each other. It helps us explain the different phases that humans go through to utter their first words, and more importantly,  it sheds light on how communicative competence develops from an oral/aural point of view.

      • Levels of Language Analysis: Semantics

             Studying Semantics could be viewed as a tedious task and most people are reluctant to study it in an academic sense. However, for students who are enrolled in educational research and language teaching studies, it is of paramount importance.  Using words, learning new words, or comprehending words represent a large part of our language use. As teachers, investigating the relationship between words, and their meanings is of paramount importance to support our learners in their language development.  This chapter will review the basics of Semantics, address its importance to language development, and finally tackle its implication on teaching.  

        • Levels of Language Analysis: Syntax

          • Levels of Language Analysis: Pragmatics

             Building our students' communicative competence is the ultimate goal that we endeavor to reach as foreign language teachers. The field of Pragmatics encapsulates the necessary aspects to boost the learner's communicative skills, which allow him the attainment of more advanced communicative levels.  Teaching Pragmatics to prospective teachers is a major concern. Through this chapter, they will go through elements related to norms, cultural conventions, and context-specific language use. The aim is to raise their awareness about the salient features of the social context in effective communication, and the necessity to integrate the pragmatic aspects in the design of courses. 



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