Using Language
Learning Objectives
Successful interaction with this and associated course content will enable students to…
- Understand the complexity of how language relates to culture
- Appreciate how language use is embedded in social contexts
- Be able to discuss how languages are structured and how they vary
- Be knowledgeable about approaches to language learning
- Discuss the unique nature of human language
- Explain the relationship between language and culture
- Explain the principle of linguistic relativity/determinism
- List and define different branches of linguistics
- List and define areas of descriptive linguistics
- Discuss different ways to classify languages
- Discuss issues in language learning today
Topics covered
- Language and culture
- Language: How we process the world around us
- Language reflects culture
- Sociolinguistics: Studying language in use
- World languages
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Second Language Learning
- Approaches to language learning
- Understanding the nature of language
- Learning a second language
- English as a world language
- Technically speaking: Language learning and technology
