TEFL-611 Principles of Linguistics (3)

This course examines the ways in which the analysis of language reveals a speaker’s unconscious knowledge of linguistic structure and function. The course looks at data from language use, language learning, and language change in order to discover the underlying principles of language: structures of words (morphology), sounds (phonology), sentences (syntax), and meaning (semantics), as well as their use in context (sociolinguistics) and representation in the mind (psycholinguistics). Students examine and analyze data from English and a wide variety of other languages and discuss how linguistic knowledge can be used effectively in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: TEFL-010 and TEFL-610.