This course is about views on how language is acquired; directions of research into first and second language acquisition; issues in second language acquisition research; theories of second language learning; linguistic theory and language acquisition theory and research and neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition.
LING2302
At the end of this course students should have a sound theoretical and methodological background into micro-sociolinguistics and should be able to apply this knowledge to the analysis of different social activities.
LING2402
A review of basic grammatical terminology; different approaches to the construction of a grammar of English [Traditional vs. Structuralist vs. Transformational Generative]; thematic variants of the kernel clause; clause/sentence type and analysis of English Sentence Structure.
