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Undergraduate Courses

E322 English Language for Teachers I

E322 is the first semester of a sequence of courses in the English language for teachers, required of all teaching certificate majors. These courses aim to provide undergraduate teaching certificate students with the resources they need in the English language. It selects from topics covered in standard introductions to linguistics and in modern grammar courses. To these topics it adds concerns of language pedagogy.

These courses view language, rather than grammar alone, as the proper scope of English teacher preparation. Nevertheless, since grammar is a necessary and perhaps central part of an English teacher's intellectual equipment, these courses contain a substantial amount of grammar, cast in a way that develops students' analytic skills and increases their understanding of linguistic study as inquiry into the human mind.

The first course in the sequence (E322) includes core topics, basic knowledge necessary to entering into the more complex material covered in the second course (E323).

Course Outline:

1. Backgrounds (2 weeks)
   
   
   
   1. The Nature of Language Study
      
      
      
      1. Language As System
         
      2. Components of Language
         
      3. Performance and Competence
         
      4. Linguistic Rules: Descriptive and Prescriptive
         
      5. Universals and Particulars of Language
         
      6. Variation in Language
         
      7. Linguistics: Theoretical, Descriptive, Applied
         
      
      
   2. The Study of Grammar
      
      
      
      1. A Model of Language System
         
      2. Grammatical Rules
         
      3. Deep and Surface Grammar
         
      4. Relation of Grammar to Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse
         
      
      
   3. Language and Pedagogy: An Introduction
      
   
   
   
   
2. English Grammar (6 weeks)
   
   
   
   1. An Introduction to the Sentence
      
   2. Parts of Speech
      
   3. Phrases
      
   4. Basic Sentence Structure
      
   5. Sentence Diagramming
      
   
   
3. Aspects of English Structure (3 weeks)
   
   
   
   1. The Sounds and Spelling of English
      
   2. English Morphology
      
   3. Varieties of American English
      
   
   
4. Pedagogical Implications and Applications (3 weeks)
   
   
   
   1. Oral and Written Language
      
   2. Usage
      
   
   
5. Acquisition of Language (1 week)
   
   
   
   1. First Language acquisition
      
   2. Second language acquisition/learning
      

Contact us: Through the mail at 1773 Campus Delivery, 359 Eddy Hall, Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1773. On the phone at (970) 491-6428. By email at english@lamar.colostate.edu.

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