Conducted in terms: 2022/23Z, 2023/24Z, 2024/25Z, 2025/26Z

ISCED code: 0231

ECTS credits: 2

Language: English

Organized by: Faculty of Humanities

Descriptive grammar of English 2510-f1ENG1W-DGE

In the winter semester, students learn about selected language phenomena from the area of English phonetics and phonology. In the summer semester, students will be provided with definitions of some basic concepts in prosody, morphology and types of word formation processes. The course makes it possible to achieve learning outcomes assumed for the subject.

Content distribution (Winter semester):
− Introduction (presentation of learning outcomes, content of the course, evaluation methods and criteria, code of conduct)
− Basic concepts in phonetics and phonology; speech organs; articulation, basic notions in speech perception
− Introduction to the phonetic alphabet and phonetic transcription
− Phonological system of English
− Selected phonological rules
− Theoretical basis of the division into weak and strong forms and function words
− Evaluation of the level of achievement of learning outcomes (written test)
− Feedback on the results of the written test and the overall result of continuous evaluation

Term 2022/23Z:

As in part A

Term 2023/24Z:

As in part A

Term 2024/25Z:

As in part A

Term 2025/26Z:

As in part A

Total student workload

Contact hours with teacher: - participation in classes - 30 hrs Self-study hours: - preparation for classes – 10 hrs - preparation for continuous assessment tasks and tests - 10 hrs Altogether: 50 hrs (2 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

Learning outcomes - skills

The student U1: can discuss main introductory topics and explain basic notions in the area of phonetics and phonology, based on the material covered during the course. (K_U02, K_U05) U2: can analyse the phonemes of English into their phonological properties, such as positions of articulators; can use computer software for basic speech processing. (K_U06) U3: can accurately transcribe English words and sentences with the IPA notation. (K_U06) U4: can recognise the main differences between selected varieties of English. (K_U04)

Learning outcomes - social competencies

K1: is aware of the level of their knowledge and skills pertaining to descriptive grammar of English and understands the need for constant learning and development, which finds confirmation in the results of successive continuous evaluation tasks. (K_K01)

Teaching methods

Expository teaching methods: - description Exploratory methods: - practical, seminar, project

Observation/demonstration teaching methods

- display

Expository teaching methods

- description
- participatory lecture

Exploratory teaching methods

- project work
- practical
- seminar

Type of course

compulsory course

Prerequisites

None

Course coordinators

Term 2025/26Z:

Term 2022/23Z:

Term 2023/24Z:

Term 2024/25Z:

Assessment criteria

Winter semester
In the winter semester, the course ends with a graded credit, composed of the following components A and B:
A. Continuous evaluation: Teacher’s observation (40% of the final grade) based on:
- answering teacher’s questions testing the students’ skills and knowledge of the issues in phonetics and phonology described in the content of the course.
- one short written test checking the students’ skills and knowledge of the issues in phonetics and phonology described in the content of the course.
(W1, W2, W3, W5, U1, U3, K1)
B. Final end-of-term evaluation: test containing open and closed questions, testing the students’ skills and knowledge of the issues in phonetics and phonology described in the content of the course (60% of the final grade) (W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, U3)
The final grade for the winter semester is the sum (A+B) of the results of the continuous evaluation and the end-of-term evaluation.

Assessment criteria:
fail – 0-59%
satisfactory – 60-69 %
satisfactory plus – 70-75 %
good – 76-85 %
good plus – 86-90%
very good – 91-100

Practical placement

N/A

Bibliography

Required reading
Ladefoged, P. and K. Johnson. 2011. A Course in Phonetics (with CD-ROM). Cengage Learning.

Roach, P. 2010. English Phonetics and Phonology. Fourth Edition. Klett Ernst.

Spiewak, Grzegorz and Lucyna Golebiowska. "Polish Speakers." Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems. Eds. Swan, Michael and Bernard Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 162-178.

Wells, J. C. 1990. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Longman. [pronunciation notes]

Link to the course on the Moodle platform:
https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1248odle.

Yule, G. 2008. The Study of Language. Cambridge: CUP (chapters 4 and 5).

ONLINE resources, e.g. Sounds familiar, BBC Voices, Speech accent archive, IPA Trainer.

Additional reading:

Lecumberri, M. L. G. and Maidment J. A. 2000. English Transcription Course. London: Arnold.

McCarthy, M. and F. O’Dell. 2005. English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced. Cambridge: CUP. (chapter Word formation)

Roach, P. 2002. A little encyclopaedia of phonetics." University of Reading.

Sobkowiak, W. 1996. English Phonetics for Poles. Poznań: Bene Nati.

Szpyra-Kozłowska, J. and W. Sobkowiak. 2005. Workbook in English Phonetics. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.

Term 2022/23Z:

As in part A

Term 2023/24Z:

As in part A

Term 2024/25Z:

As in part A

Term 2025/26Z:

As in part A

Notes

Term 2022/23Z:

None

Term 2023/24Z:

None

Term 2024/25Z:

None

Term 2025/26Z:

None

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 2510-f1ENG1W-DGE in USOSweb