Course Name Introduction to Linguistics

Course Credits 3 units

Course Description
This course provides an overview of linguistics as a discipline, its development, levels of structure and its significance to English language
teaching.

Contact Hours/week 3 hours

Prerequsite All content courses
Course Outcomes
1. Explain the nature of human language, grammatical aspects of language, the psychology of language and language and
society.
2. Show appreciation in performing varied activities and exercises.
3. Perform varied activities considering nature of human language, grammatical aspects of language, the psychology of language
and language and society.

COURSE OUTLINE AND TIMEFRAME

Course Content/Subject Matter
Week 1 What Is Language?
Week 2 & 3 Brain and Language
Week 4 Morphology
Week 5 & 6 Syntax
Week 7 & 8 Meaning of Language
Week 9 & 10 Phonetics
Week 11 & 12 Phonology
Week 13 Language Acquisition
Week 14 Language Processing
Week 15 Language in Society
Week 16 Language Change
Week 17 & 18 Writing: ABC’s of Language