Contrastive grammar 2510-f1ENG2S-CG
- https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1833 (term 2022/23L)
- https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1833 (term 2023/24L)
- https://moodle.umk.pl/WHUM/course/view.php?id=1833 (term 2024/25L)
The problems include contrasts in derivational and inflectional morphology, clause structure and its syntactic and semantic implications. Contrasts are related to their potential inter and/or intralingual sources. The significance of contrasts for applied purposes is widely discussed.
1. Introduction to contrastive studies
2. The origin of Indo-European languages
3. Basic types of contrast
4. Word formation and the lexicon in contrast
5. Phonological typology and contrast
6. Lexical typology and contrast
7. Grammatical typology and contrast
8. Sources of contrast
Together: 30 contact hours
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Term 2022/23L:
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Term 2023/24L:
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Term 2024/25L:
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Total student workload
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Learning outcomes - skills
Observation/demonstration teaching methods
Expository teaching methods
- problem-based lecture
- participatory lecture
Exploratory teaching methods
- practical
- situational
Prerequisites
Course coordinators
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Assessment criteria
The final grade is based on:
• Mid-term exam (40% of the overall grade),
(W3, U1) -students' ability to use contrastive grammar terminology, part I.
• In-class activity (including homeworks, 30% of the overall grade),
(U1)
• Final exam (30% of the overall grade) designed to check:
-students' knowledge of the course material, part II,
(W1, W2, W3, U2)
fail - below 60 %
satisfactory - 60-69 %
satisfactory plus - 70-74 %
good – 75-84 %
good plus - 85-89 %
very good - 90 and above %
Each failure to participate in classes or to do the assigned tasks has to be excused within the first week after the lesson missed. The final grade percentage will be reduced by 10 % for every unexcused absence from classes or assignment that a student has failed to complete (homework or asynchronous learning).
Practical placement
N/A
Bibliography
SUGGESTED READING
E, Willim, E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld, A contrastive approach to problems with English, Kraków 1997.
M. Swan, D. Baker, Grammar scan: diagnostic tests for practical English usage, Oxford 2008.
Krzeszowski, Tomasz. 2013. Time Works Wonders. A Selected Papers in Contrastive and Cognitive Linguistics. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Fisiak, Jacek, Maria Lipińska-Grzegorek and Tomasz Zabrocki. 1978. An introductory Polish-English contrastive grammar. Warszawa: PWN.
Hock, Hans and Brian Joseph. 2009. Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship. An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Moravcsik, Edith. 2013. Introducing Language Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Meijer, E. 2020. Animal Languages. The MIT Press.
Optional literature (examples, selected pages)
Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Elżbieta. 1996. Tendencje rozwojowe współczesnych zapożyczeń angielskich w języku polskim. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
Other pieces available on moodle.
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Term 2022/23L:
As in part A |
Term 2023/24L:
As in part A |
Term 2024/25L:
As in part A |
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