Teaching Plan of English Linguistics
Lecture One Topic: The nature of language Focal Points：What is language Difficult Points：Design features Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to understand the nature of language: why language is different from other mean of communication. Teaching Methods：T. using examples to illustrate the difference between language and other means of communication. T. eliciting sts. to think in English. Teaching Aids：An overhead projector and multimedia equipment Teaching Steps: 1. T. introducing meanings of language. 2. T. asking sts. what they know about language. 3. T. explaining why human language is unique. 4. T. explaining design features: creativity, arbitrariness, duality, productions, displacement, cultural transmission, interchangeability Homework：Answer the questions in writing at the back of the chapter .
Lecture Two Topic: Branches of linguistics and phonetics Focal Points：Distinctions in linguistics Difficult Points：Speech organs and articulatory points Teaching Purposes： 1. Help sts. to understand basic distinctions in linguistics 2. Help sts. to familiarize themselves with the speech organs. Teaching Methods：T. explaining some basic distinctions in linguistics T. asking sts. to answer some questions Teaching Aids：An overhead projector and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. T. asking sts. to answer the questions 2. T. explaining what is linguistics. 3. T. explaining some basic distinctions. (1) speech / writing (2) descriptive / prescriptive (3) synchronic/ diachronic studies (4) langue/ parole (5) competence/ performance 4. T. explaining the scope of linguistics. 5. T. explaining the scope of phonetics. 6. T. explaining the vocal organs. Homework：Prepare for the topics at the back of this chapter.
Lecture Three Topic: Phonetics and phonology Focal Points：Places of articulation and manners of articulation Difficult Points：Classification of vowels Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to understand places / manners of articulation Help sts to familiarize themselves with the ways of classifying vowels Teaching Methods：T’s illustration T—sts discussion Teaching Aids：An overhead protector and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. T. drawing and explaining the vocal organs on the board 2. T. explaining places of articulation and manners of articulation 3. T. explaining the classification of consonants 4. T. explaining the cardinal vowels 5. T. explaining the classification of vowels (1) the height of tongue raising (2) the position of the highest part of the tongue (3) the degree of lip rounding (rounded/ unrounded) 6. T. explaining phonetic transcription, IPA and narrow/ broad transcription. 7. T. explaining the difference between phonology and phonetics 8. T. explaining phonemes / allophones, phonemic patterns, phonemic rules, suprasegmental features. Homework: Preview the new chapter and the handouts.
Lecture Four Topic: Phonetics and morphology Focal Points：Phonemic rules Difficult Points：Morphological rules Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to understand phonemic rules and morphological rulers. Teaching Methods：T, using examples to illustrate phonemic rules. T-sts interaction. Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. T. explaining phonemic rules. 2. T. introducing morphemes and allomorphs. 3. T. explaining bound/ free morphemes, derivational and inflectional morphemes. 4. T. illustrating morphological description. 5. T. introducing morphological rules. Homework: Do the exercises at the back of the chapter.
Lecture Five Topic: Syntax Focal Points：Syntactic relations and TG grammar. Difficult Points：Minimalist Program and minimalism Teaching Purposes：Helping sts to understand syntactic relations, kinds of subjects and semantic functions Teaching Methods： 1. T. asking sts. questions 2. T-sts. discussion 3. T. explaining concepts Teaching Aids：An overhead projector and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. T. introducing syntactic relations. 2. T. explaining constructions and constitutions. 3. T. introducing IC analysis. 4. T. introducing deep and surface structures. 5. T. introducing Chomsky’s model. 6. T. explaining syntactic functions, esp. Subjects: grammatical, semantic and psychological 7. T. explaining semantic functions 8. T. introducing syntax beyond the sentence Homework: Read the handouts and the new chapter.
Topic: Syntax: TG analysis and Minimalist Program Focal Points：Language universals Difficult Points：Language Acquisition Device (LAD) Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to understand Chomskyan syntactic theory, esp. Minimalist Program Teaching Methods：Explanation / Discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. Explanation of Chomskyan theory’s background 2. X-bar theory 3. Principles and parameters 4. Minimalist program Homework: Using tree diagrams to analyze ambiguous sentences
Lecture Seven
Topic: Semantics. Focal Points：Semantic theories. Difficult Points：Kinds of meaning. Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to familiarize themselves with different semantic thrones Teaching Methods：Explanation and discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment Teaching Steps: 1. What’s semantics? 2. Kinds of meaning. Leech and his classification of meanings 3. Sense relations Synonymy Antonymy Hyponymy Polysemy Homonymy Homework: Do the exercises at the back of the chapter.
Lecture Eight Topic: Semantics and Pragmatics. Focal Points：Semantic analysis. Difficult Points：Relationship between semantics and pragmatics. Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to understand the ways of analyzing semantic components and pragmatic meanings Teaching Methods：Explanation and discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1.Semantic analysis A. Componential analysis B. Predication analysis 2. Context and meaning 3. Speech Act Theory A. Illocutionary acts B. Indirect speech acts C. Difficulties in the Speech Act Theory Homework: Preview the handouts and do all the exercises at the back of the chapter.
Lecture Nine
Topic: Pragmatics Focal Points：Meaning of CP and PP. Difficult Points：Polite Principles Teaching Purposes：Help sts to appreciate CP and PP in pragmatics Teaching Methods：Explanation and discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. Analysis. (1) Adjacency pairs (2) Preferred second parts (3) Presequences 2. The cooperation principle (CP) (1) The cooperative principle and its maxims (2) Conversational implicatures 3. The polite principles (PP) Homework: Do all the exercises at the back of the chapter.
Lecture Ten Topic: Sociolinguistics Focal Points：Register Difficult Points：The interrelation between language and society Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to under stand the relationship between language and society Teaching Methods：Explanation Discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment Teaching Steps: 1. Dialects Regional dialect Temporal dialect Social dialect Standard dialect 2. Registers Field of discourse Mode of discourse Tenor of discourse Homework: Preview the handouts about language and society.
Lecture Eleven Topic: Psycholinguistics Focal Points：Organic parts of the mind Difficult Points：Language acquisition Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to familiarize themselves with the organic structure of the human mind. Teaching Methods：Explanation and discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1.Organic structure of the mind. 2. Language Lateralization 3. Language acquisition Homework: Review the contents covered this semester.
Lecture Twelve Topic: Stylistics Focal Points： Meanings of style Difficult Points：Sight poetry Teaching Purposes：Help sts. to familiarize themselves with some stylistically significant features at different levels. Teaching Methods: T’s explanation and T-sts. discussion Teaching Aids：Transparencies and multimedia equipment. Teaching Steps: 1. T. explaining styles and variety. 2. T. explaining meter, foot etc. 3. T. introducing sight poetry. 4. explaining syntactic deviation. Homework: Do all the exercises at the back of the chapter. |
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