授课计划（Syllabus Design）
课程名称：英语语言学基础
课程类型：专业必修课
授课时间：大三下学期
考核方式：考试
课程描述（COURSE DESCRIPTION）
This course is an introductory course to the study of language. It deals with topics that an English major or teacher should KNOW about language and the different subfields of LINGUISTICS, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and text /discourse analysis, as well as the different methods employed in the study, analysis, and understanding of language in each subfield.
教学目标（COURSE OBJECTIVES）
By the end of this course, the student is expected to be able to:
1. talk about language/linguistic matters in an objective and informed manner
2. possess greater awareness of language and language use
3. state the general principles for describing the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of a language
4. do basic phonological, grammatical, and text/discourse analysis of language samples
5. discuss the contributions of linguistics to more effective language teaching and learning
教学进度（COURSE SCHEDULE）
(1) Course orientation: policies and syllabus/ Preliminaries /
Language and Linguistics
(2) The nature of language / The functions of language The properties of language/ animal and human language/communication
(3) The origins of language / The development of writing
(4) The scope of linguistics (definition, classification/subfields in linguistics)
(5) Some distinctions in linguistics (prescriptive vs. descriptive/ synchronic vs. diachronic/ langue vs. parole/ syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic/ competence vs. performance/ speech vs. writing)
(6)Phonetics
Organs of speech/ The sounds of language / Voicing/ Place of articulation/
Manner of articulation/ Vowels/ due on Essay 1
(7) Phonology
Transcription and Characteristics of Sounds/ Phone, phoneme and allophone/ The sound patterns of language(Minimal Pairs/Complementary distribution)
(8) Sequential rules/ assimilation/elision/ suprasegmental features(syllable, stress, pitch, intonation, tone) Phonetics Quiz
(9) Morphology
Definition of a word/ identification of words/classification of words/ the syntactic category of the word (Group work) / due on Essay 2
(10) Morpheme and its types (allomorph)/ Word formation processes/ Lexicon/ Morphology Quiz
(11) Syntax
Phrase structure rules/ major or minor lexical categories
(12) Sentence structure rules (sentence types/ syntactic function and tategory)
(13) Transformation rules (deep vs. surface structure/ syntactic function and category)
(14) Semantics
Approaches to meaning/ semantic analysis (semantic features/ semantic roles)
(15) Semantic fields/ semantic relations/ lexical relations (synonymy/antonymy/ hyponymy/ prototypes/homophony/homonymy/polysemy/metonymy/collocation) (Group work and individual presentation)
(16) Pragmatics and Text analysis
Definition of pragmatics/ invisible meaning and context/cohesion (deixis vs. reference/ sense vs. reference/ presupposition)
(17) Austin’s speech act theory/ Searle’s speech act theory and its classification
(18) The principles of conversation (The cooperative principle/The politeness principle)
(19) Presupposition and the structure of spoken text (presupposition/ exchange vs. adjacency pair)/ due on Essay 3
(20) Language and Brain
Language and Machines (individual report)
(21) First language acquisition
Second language acquisition and learning (group presentation)
(22) Linguistics and language teaching/learning
l Approaches to language teaching
l Syllabus design
l Contrastive analysis/ error analysis
l Language testing
(23) Language Varieties
Language and Culture (Sapir-whorf Hypothesis)
Language History and Change
(24) Language and Society
l The scope of sociolinguistics
l Speech community and speech variety
l Language and gender
l Register
l Bilingualism vs. diaglossia
(25) Final Review
Independent study
教学方法（METHODOLOGY）
Regular class sessions involve lecture, discussion based on reading, Presentation of Cooperating Learning in a group work, Task-based learning, assignments, short essays, and quizzes. The short essays are required to choose 3 topics from the textbook, which you want to discuss or share your opinions with class or your partners; simultaneously the essays are complete by group work. The assignments/short essays should be expected to be typed less than 3 pages long, double-space, 12-pt Times Roman font, one-inch margin on all sides and printed on A4 paper.
教学要求（COURSE REQUIREMENTS）
Regular class attendance; active participation in class discussion; Presentation with PPT; prompt submission of assignments; quizzes; short essays; final exam
学期评估分制（ASSESSMENT）
总成绩=学期考试70% + 平时成绩占30% （出勤，作业，测验，课堂呈现）
教材选用（TEXTBOOK）
戴炜栋, 何兆熊. 2008.《新编简明英语语言学教程》第三版，上海：上海外语教育出版社
参考书目（REFERENCES）
[1] Yule, G. 1998. The Study of Language (2nd Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
[2] Ellis, R. 1994. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press
[3] O’Malley, J.M. & Chamot, A. U. 1990. Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
[4] 杨信彰. 2005. 《语言学概论》，北京：高等教育出版社
[5] 胡壮麟. 2002. 《语言学教程》，北京：北京大学教育出版社
[6] 胡壮麟，刘润清，李延福. 1993. 《语言学教程》，北京：北京大学教育出版社
[7] 何兆熊. 2000. 《新编语用学概要》，上海：上海外语教育出版社
