From year 2005 onwards
AN 13500 Applied Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics is an extremely broad field and is believed to offer insights and ways forward in the resolution of language-related problems in a variety of contexts. This course aims to show a particular area of applied linguistics when it sets out to investigate how languages other than the mother tongue are acquired. This area is called Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
- The course takes a historical perspective and looks at how the use of a given linguistic framework and learning theory has helped researchers in their attempts to formulate an explanatory theory of SLA. Among the central issues the course intends to cover are the following: (i) To what extent is SLA like or different from first language acquisition?; (ii) What role does the first and other languages play in the ease and difficulty of SLA?; (iii) What non-linguistic factors affect success or failure in SLA?
AN16000 Language Analysis for Teaching Purposes
- The course aims to investigate the status of grammar within language teaching and learning arguing that the teaching of grammar should be incorporated in the communicative approach as well. Its efficiency depends much on the learner's and teacher's own understanding of how grammar interacts with other elements of the communication system. A revised and revitalized approach to grammar is offered in which the goal is to investigate the relations between the formal events of grammar and the conditions of their meaning and use. Also, contrastive relations between native language and the foreign language, and the connection between descriptive and pedagogical grammars and the learner/user's own 'psycholinguistic' grammar will be considered.
AN70801 English in Advertising and the Media
- The course aims to offer students the opportunity of critically engaging in two influential and inescapable discourse types of our time, the advertising text and the press text. What links the two discourse types is their endeavour to persuade and influence people. This is often done by manipulating language to reach the desired effect. The course aims to investigate the linguistic and non-linguistic means with which effect is achieved. Drawing on mostly linguistic theory for analysis, the course covers aspects of advertising language, from the interrelation of language, image and layout to the discourse between ‘reader’ and advertisement. It also addresses the issues of how opinions and ideologies are presented in the press, and how news stories are constructed.
AN14700 Psycholinguistics
- Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental mechanisms that make it possible for the individual to acquire and use language. It studies how word, sentence and discourse meanings are represented and computed in the mind. It investigates how a listener/reader recovers messages from speech signal or written text, and how a speaker/writer expresses ideas in terms of articulatory/graphological patterns. The understanding system works out what the linguistic input is about and by doing so, constructs a representation of a part of the world. This operation is helped by several subprocesses: word recognition, parsing, semantic interpretation, model construction and pragmatic interpretation.
The course aims to
- help participants to gain a deeper understanding of the way people acquire languages in general, and second languages in particular;
- familiarise participants with the structure of the language processor;
- introduce participants to theories related to the mental lexicon;
- familiarise participants with the features of the computation of syntactic structure;
- provide participants with a model of the language production system and its relation to the comprehension system;
- help participants gain a deeper understanding between language, thought, and culture, and the effect of this relationship on second language learning.
AN33400BA Introduction to Applied Linguistics
- The aim of this foundation course is to familiarize students with some selected areas of applied linguistics by intentionally focusing on issues which may be of interest and importance for students of English, irrespective of the specialization they will choose later on. Three main topics will be addressed (the nature of language, the nature of language learning and the nature of language teaching), of which the first two will be dealt with in detail. More specifically, the following areas will be dealt with: first language acquisition, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and culture, language learning and teaching models and language testing.
ANL 40003 Syllabus Design and Coursebook Analysis
- The course aims to look at (i) how language programmes are designed and (ii) how coursebooks should be evaluated. In the first part of the course the most influential syllabus types will be investigated and critiqued, with special emphasis on the communicative syllabus. The compatibility of the Hungarian curriculum and the Common European framework will be looked at in detail. In the second part students will be invited to critically study coursebooks designed for foreign language learners. Special emphasis will be given to participants' own teaching environment and it will be discussed how the coursebook they are using in their own teaching environment satisfies the requirements of the curriculum, to what extent it prepares students for language exams, and for real life communication.
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