1st Year

This course provides an overview of linguistics as a discipline, its development, levels of structure, and its significance to English language teaching. The English pre-service teachers will recognize the general structural aspect of language (i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and major theories of linguistics in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and other related studies. With this, the course will engage future language teachers in identifying authentic language problems from a gender perspective and designing linguistically inclusive teaching strategies.