TOMAS DEL ROSARIO COLLEGE

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Course Syllabus in
English 1
Teaching English in the Elementary Grades (Languages Arts)
Second Semester 2020-2021

Department: EDUCATION
I. Course Description:

This course will emphasize English as a second language with main focus on language teaching methodologies to improve knowledge on the
structure and fluency in the English language through listening, reading, writing, speaking, and viewing.

II. Course Credit:

3 units
54 hours

III. Course General Objectives:

General: At the end of the course, the future teacher shall have acquired an overview of how linguists look at language and what they do when they
work with language for more affected instruction.

Specific:
1. Identify substances to be taught and the facts to be mastered through an understanding of the English language.
2. Decide how to teach the English on the basis of the various aspects of the language.
3. Make a more in-depth study of the linguistics from a basic knowledge of the discipline.
4. Show interest in linguistics and its cultural significance.

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 IV. Course Content:

TIME FRAME TOPICS INTENDED LEARNING TEACHER-LEARNER ASSESSMENT

OUTCOMES ACTIVITIES METHODS/TASKS
Preliminary Period History of Language 1. Trace the history of the  Library Research and  Written report of
The Nature of Language English Language Discussion researches made
Week 1  Its Definition
 Basic Distinctions  Participation in class
(Wardhaugh, pp. 1-13) 2. Discuss the  Library Research and discussion
characteristics and Discussion
Week 2 The Meaning and Aspects of features of English  Assignments
Linguistics
 Linguistics and Teaching  Library Research and  Quizzes
3. Identify the organs of Discussion
Week 3&4 Language Communication speech and discuss
 Non-linguistic how they function to
 Design Features of Human produce various
Language sounds
(Wardhaugh, pp. 13-29)

Week 5&6 Phonetics:

 Articulatory Phonetics
 Articulatory Apparatus
(Wardhaugh, pp.32-36; Napoli,
pp. 4-27)
Vocoids & Nonvocoids (Wardhaugh,
pp. 36-42)
IPA Symbols
(Wardhaugh, pp. 43-45; Napoli, pp. 53-
57)
Assessment, Evaluation, Preliminary
Measurement, Testing Examinations

Mid-Term Period The English Consonants and Glides 1. Identify the different  Listening to recorded  Assignment
(Wardhaugh, pp.52-59) sounds of English and speech in English and
Week 7&8  The English Vowel System produce them. identifying vowel and  Quizzes
consonant sounds
(Wardhaugh, pp. 59-63)

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  Phonemics:The Phoneme 2. Transcribe English
- Phones & Allophones sounds into phonetic  Lecture-  Participation in class
Week 9 - Consonant Clusters symbols. Demonstration discussion
 Segmentals
 Listening to recorded  Written reports
 Phonemic Transcription 3. Identify changes in speech and noting the
Week 10 (Wardhaugh, pp. 63-66) meaning according to presence/absence of  Performances/oral
the usage of suprasegmentals reading with correct
 Suprasegmentals suprasegmentals. sounds and prosodic.
- Stress and Juncture  Presentation of  Actual constituent
- Pitch and Terminal written texts and analysis
4. Identify morphemes identifying
Contour
Week 11&12 and allomorphs. morphemes, words
(Wardhaugh, pp.68-70) and other structures

 Morphology 5. Analyze the

- Morphemes and structure/construction
Allomorphs of words an utterance
(Wardhaugh, pp.76-85; Napoli, in English.
pp. 183-200)
- Words (Wardhaugh,
pp. 85-86) Mid-Term Exams
- Constituent
Constructions
(Wardhaugh, pp. 89-96)
 Constituent Analysis
(Wardhaugh, pp. 96-98)

Final Period Construction Types (Wardhaugh, 98- 1. Identify types,  Presentation of  Actual performance of
101) hierarchies, sentence written texts and expansions and
Week 13 Hierarchies of Constructions patterns of English identifying various transformation
construction
(Wardhaugh, pp. 101-104)
 Quizzes
 Library Research and
Week 14 2. Expand, transform and discussion  Written report of
Sentence Pattern, Expansion and generate English researches made
Transformation (Wardhaugh, pp. 104- sentences
108)  Assignments

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 Week 15 3. Explain the meaning of
Transformational-Generative sets, collocation and
register.
Grammar
- Generative Grammar
(Wardhaugh, pp. 113-117)
- Deep and Surface Structures
(Wardhaugh, pp. 117-120)
- Transformations
(Wardhaugh, pp. 120-124; Napoli,
Week 16 Discuss how meaning is
pp. 379-381)
related to TGG

Week 17 English Sentence Transformations

(Wardhaugh, pp. 127-155)

Meaning: Some Difficulties

(Wardhaugh, pp. 158-160)
- Sets, Collocations and
Registers
Week 18 (Wardhaugh, pp. 160-164)
- Meaning and TGG Final Exams
(Wardhaugh, pp. 164-171)

Generative Semantics
(Wardhaugh, pp. 171-177)

V. Course Requirements:

1. Attendance
2. A rating of at least 75% in all quizzes, tests and preliminary, mid-term and final examinations
3. Active participation in group discussions
4. Assignments, projects/written reports/researches
5. Other requirements as may be deemed necessary

VI. REFERENCES:

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  Wardhaugh, Ronald. Introduction to Linguistics (USA: McGraw Hill, Inc., 2017)
 Malicsi, Jonathan. The English Linguisticss Project (English Workbook), Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2015

Prepared by: Recommending Approval:

ROBERTO R. PANTIG, PhD MERCEDEZ G. SANCHEZ, EdD

Instructor Vice President for Academics, Student Affairs
and Extension Services

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