KEMENTERIAN AGAMA

INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI (IAIN) KENDARI

FAKULTAS TARBIYAH DAN ILMU KEGURUAN
Jl. Sultan Qaimuddin No. 17 Telp/Fax. 0401 3193710 E-Mail. stain_kdi@yahoo.co.id
Website. http//stainkendari.ac.id

English Education Syllabus

Course Outline : English Syntax

Code : PBI 432
Credit : 2
Lecturer : Dewi Atikah

1: Academic Content
1a Unit description and learning outcomes
The course provides the understanding necessary to teach English and writing. It focuses on the
basic grammatical constructions of English and several approaches to describe and represent
them. This course will cover lexical categories, syntactic categories, grammatical and
dependency relations, syntactic structure of the sentence, analysis of sentence and text
connection.

1b Objectives
By the end of the course, the students will be able to describe most of the major syntactic
constructions of English in several ways. In addition, you will be able to analyze the cohesion of
the sentence in connected text.

2: Delivery of Unit and Timetable

On campus, following the standard semester, with weekly 1.30 to 2-hour teaching. There will
also be time for independent study.
Timetable for classes: Tentative

Note: This schedule may vary in certain ways with the agreement of the participants.
Week Content
1 Overview the materials
2 English syntax: basic concepts
3 Standard English
4 Prescriptive/ descriptive grammar, semantic definition of terms, word vs lexeme,
function/ categories
5-6 Verb tense and inflection, auxiliaries, finite and infinite clause
7 Clause: adjunct and complements, heads and dependents, licensing

8 Mid-test

9 Predicative complements
10 Nouns, nominal, noun phrase
 KEMENTERIAN AGAMA
INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI (IAIN) KENDARI
FAKULTAS TARBIYAH DAN ILMU KEGURUAN
Jl. Sultan Qaimuddin No. 17 Telp/Fax. 0401 3193710 E-Mail. stain_kdi@yahoo.co.id
Website. http//stainkendari.ac.id

11 Adjective and adverbs (prepositional and clausal complements of adjective,

preferred positions for adverbs in Auxiliary.
12- Clause type (subordination and content clause, non-finite and verbless clause)
13
14 Usage and licensing collocation
15 Review
16 Final

3: Unit Resources
Lists of required texts/readings
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & Hyams, N. 2003. Introduction to a language. USA: Thomson
corporation
Yule, G. 1996. The study of language. Cambridge: CUP

4: Assessment

No Assessment Tasks Weighting

1 Assignments 20%
2 Mid exam 40%
3 Final exam 40%
TOTAL 100%