Introduction to General Linguistics

Course: Translation from English and a Second Western European Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Introduction to General Linguistics
Code
ННД.01.01
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 7. Understand the major issues of philology and approaches to solving those using relevant methods and innovative approaches. PLO 12. Analyse language units, determine their interaction, and characterize linguistic phenomena and the underlying processes. PLO 17. Collect, analyse, systematize and interpret language and speech facts and use them to solve complex problems and tasks in specialized fields of professional activity and / or training.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Have elementary skills of language analysis and interpretation according to basic secondary school program at all levels of language structure – phonetic, morphological, lexical, phraseological, syntactic, stylistic, with the view of language as the most important means of human communication, an indispensable attribute of ethnicity and nation; to deliver the information in proficient Ukrainian literary language.
Course content
The course provides students with the fundamentals of general linguistic knowledge, the basic tenets of the theory of language, and the most important methods and techniques of linguistic research. It is grounded on general scientific principles and linguistic foundations of modern language theory and at the same time takes into account all current relevant sociolinguistic developments which have established in recent years in Ukraine as a democratic state. The course consists of four main units: introduction; external aspect of language learning; the internal aspect of language learning, the comparative aspect of language learning.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Вступ до мовознавства : підручник [І.О.Голубовська, С.М.Лучканин, В.Ф.Чемес та ін.]; за ред. І. О. Голубовської. К.: ВЦ «Академія», 2016. 320 с. (серія «Альма-матер»). Вступ до мовознавства. Ч.1. Навчальний посібник. К.: Київський університет, 2007. 99 с. Вступ до мовознавства. Ч.2. Навчальний посібник. К.: Київський університет, 2010. 223 с. Кочерган М. П. Вступ до мовознавства. К: Академія, 2000. 368 с. Кочерган М. П. Загальне мовознавство. К: Академія, 2003. 464 с. Основи лінгвістичних знань : навч. посібник / І. Р. Корольов, Ю. О. Письменна, З. В. Рожченко. К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2013. 287 с. Основи мовознавства : підручник / І. О. Голубовська, С.М. Лучканин, В.Ф. Чемес та ін.; за заг. ред. І. О. Голубовської. К.: ВПЦ «Київський університет», 2018. 511 с. Селіванова О. О. Сучасна лінгвістика: напрями та проблеми: підручник. Полтава : Довкілля-К, 2008. 712 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Oral response, additions, participation in the discussion, test with open answers, creative task (essay, presentation, review), report-analysis of scientific literature, exam
Assessment methods and criteria
Knowledge monitoring is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides a two-level evaluation of the learned material, in particular, the assessment of theoretical knowledge makes up 40% of the total grade, and the practical training makes up 60% of the total grade. An oral answer is assessed in 5 points, for an addition, students can get an additional 2, for a report-analysis of scientific literature a maximum of 6 points is awarded, for a creative task (essay, presentation, review) - up to 11 points, and a test with closed answers is valued at a maximum of 10. All types of works, forms of their control and evaluation criteria are written in detail in the program of the academic discipline.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Valeriy Fedorovych Chemes
Department of General Linguistics, Classical Philology and Neo-Hellenistics
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology