Contact the English Department one semester prior to enrollment. Fieldwork provides experience working in a language-teaching program or an educational research organization. Introduction to the terminology and methodology of modern linguistic science and a detailed structural analysis of English phonology, morphology, and syntax. Theories and basic principles of the teaching of a second language, especially as they relate to the English language, introducing students to methods of teaching English to speakers of other languages. Overview of the structure of modern English beginning with word classes and ending with analyses of complex sentences.
Students learn to tap their own intuitions about English to analyze grammatical structure.
An in-depth description and analysis of the sound system processes of modern English. Segmental phonetics, syllable structure, connected speech, and prosodic phenomena are among the topics. Implications for language instruction are also addressed. Study of mental and psychological aspects of human language, including aphasia, association, autism, language acquisition, verbal concept formation, and perception. First and second language acquisition are compared, and factors contributing to L2 variation are explored, including linguistic universals, transfer, age, input, and effective considerations.