General Linguistics

Course: «Applied (computer) Linguistics and English language»

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
General Linguistics
Code
ННД. 08.01
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. To work with information effectively: to select necessary information from different sources, in particular from professional literature and electronic bases; to analyze and interpret it critically; to arrange it and make proper classification and systematization. PLO 7. To understand major problems of philology and approaches to their solution with the use of relevant methods, in particular, innovative interdisciplinary approaches of applied (computational) linguistics and information technologies; to explain their interrelation in the integrated system of interdisciplinary knowledge. PLO 15, 17.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know general information about the nature, structure, functions, universal characteristics of language, types, and functions of language units. To have the skills of analysis of language units, forms, and syntactic constructions, processing and interpretation of scientific texts.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint students with the main issues and problems of linguistics, with the conceptual and terminological apparatus of the science of language, and outline the methodological coordinate system in which all linguistic disciplines are taught that prepares a specialist philologist. The discipline introduces students to the most important scientific concepts about the nature, functions, origin, and laws of language development, its connections with extralinguistic phenomena, the main problems and questions of linguistics, the directions of linguistic research, the structure of the language system, the characteristics and functions of the constituent units of its structural levels. Provides the necessary theoretical and methodological basis for the study of other linguistic disciplines.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar class, independent work.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment. Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level evaluation of the learned material, in particular, the evaluation of theoretical understanding, which makes up 40% of the total grade, and the evaluation of practical training, which makes up 60% of the total grade. Assessment of semester work: 1. Oral answer: 18/9 points; 2. Additions, participation in the discussion: 10/7 points; 3. Tests: 16/10 points; 4. Control test with open answers: 16/10. Final assessment: exam.
Language of instruction
Ukrainіаn

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Viktorivna Ruda
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology