| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
 Subjects |
| APPLIED ENGLISH LINGUISTICS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2016_17 |
| Subject | APPLIED ENGLISH LINGUISTICS | Code | 12274206 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Optional | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction | 1.What is Applied Linguistics (AL)? Definition and scope. A historical introduction. Subfields in AL 2. AL and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Key issues in SLA |
| Language Acquisition. English as a First Language | 1. The brain and language acquisition 2. Theoretical approaches to explaining first language acquisition 3. Stages in the acquisition of L1 English 4. Child-directed speech 5. Bilingual acquisition |
| Second language acquisition. Theories | 1. Theory and research 2. Behaviourism 3. Innatism 4. Psychological theories 5. Interactionism 6. The monitor theory |
| Interlanguage | 1. The concept of interlanguage (IL) 2. Characteristics of IL 3. IL and developmental sequences 4. Errors: Contrastive analysis (CA) and Error Analysis (EA) 5. Interlanguage and Lingua Franca. Similarities and differences |
| The role of the L1 in ESL / EFL | 1. Definition of transfer in SLA 2. Terminological issues 3. Types of transfer 4. The development of transfer. A historical perspective 5. Constraints on transferability 6. What can be transferred? 7. Identification of transfer |
| Individual Learner Differences | 1. Definition, brief history and taxonomy of individual differences 2. Age of acquisition. Critical period hypothesis (CPH) 3. Aptitude and intelligence. 4. Personality. 5. Motivation and attitudes. 6. Learner preferences 7. Learner beliefs 8. Learning styles |
