Teaching Language Skills (Follow up)

Genre Analysis Courses: Master 2 Linguistics

Historical Linguistics  for Master II Students  specialized  in Linguistics

This course is dedicated to second year Master (Linguistics) students as part of their pragmatics module.

Credit:02 /  Coefficient: 01  / Evaluation: Exam+TD

The course consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to contrastive analysis which introduces students to (i) the concept of contrastive analysis, (ii) a historical overview on contrastive analysis and (iii) the fundamental principles for a contrastive analysis, (iv) the steps of contrastive analysis, and (v) the strengths and weaknesses of contrastive analysis and finally (vi) the implication of contrastive analysis.
The second part of this course concerns the error analysis within which the concept of error analysis is set forth. Then, an overview of its theoretical foundations, assumptions and objectives is offerd. To make the students proceed towards the practical side of error analysis, the major steps of conducting it are hlighted and supported with concrete examples. Finally, this part ends up with some criricisms of error analysis.