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The document outlines the course policy for a Linguistics class at Balkh University, detailing the course goals, objectives, teaching methods, and evaluation criteria. Students will learn about word formation, morphology, grammar, syntax, and semantic theories through interactive and student-centered methods. The assessment includes tasks, a midterm, and a final exam, with strict rules against plagiarism and late submissions.

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linguistics 3rd class

The document outlines the course policy for a Linguistics class at Balkh University, detailing the course goals, objectives, teaching methods, and evaluation criteria. Students will learn about word formation, morphology, grammar, syntax, and semantic theories through interactive and student-centered methods. The assessment includes tasks, a midterm, and a final exam, with strict rules against plagiarism and late submissions.

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Balkh University

Languages and Literature Faculty


English Department
Course Policy

Subject Linguistics

Instructor

Semester 6th

Subject Code

Credit No. 2

Email: [email protected]

Phone number: +93780000202/ +93700500808

Contact- line:

Course Goals and


Objectives Course Goal

The goal of this course is to make student familiar with the linguistics and
subfields of linguistics. The main of focus of the subject in this semester will
be on word formation, Morphology, Grammar, Syntax .

Course Objectives

Upon the completion of the course student will be able to:

 Understand rules of forming words


 Analyze words morphologically
 Understand the philosophy of Grammar
 Analyze sentences syntactically
 Know semantic theories

 Student Centered Method

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Teaching Method  Interactive Method

Course Evaluation The assessment is based on the following criteria:

Task 1:(10%) Assessment of work or classroom activities

Task 2: (10%) Assessment of the assigned tasks

Midterm: (20%) (Descriptive, multiple-choice, practical writing)

Final Exam: 60%) (Descriptive, multiple-choice, practical writing)

Plagiarism and Cheating On any assignment will result in a zero grade for that assignment.

Late Work It is NOT acceptable.

Rules of Conduct within For better class management, please consider followings:
the Classroom:
• Inattentiveness is not permitted during lecture periods.

• Unnecessary interruption in the class proceeding must be avoided.

• Mobiles must be kept at silent mode.

Teaching Plan
Assignments and
Week Details of the lessons to be taught Teaching Method
Submission Date
 Introduction to course policy and PowerPoint presentation
1st week
course contents Interactive Method

 Word formation Interactive Method


 Etymology
 Coinage Class Discussion
 Borrowing
2nd week
 Compounding
 Blending
 Clipping

 Backformation Task and projects


 Conversion Content -Focused Method of the chapter
3rd week  Acronyms Pair Work, Group Work
 Derivation PowerPoint Presentation At the end of the
 Prefixes and suffixes week 3.
 Multiple process

2
 Morphology PowerPoint presentation
 Morphemes Interactive Method
4th week  Free and bound morphemes
 Lexical and functional morphemes
 Derivational and inflectional
morphemes
 Morphological description Interactive Method Discussion
 Problems in morphological topics / project of
description Class Discussion the chapter. End
5th week
 Morphs and allomorphs of week 5
 Morphs and allomorphs
 Other languages

 Grammar
 Traditional grammar Content -Focused Method
 The parts of speech Pair Work, Group Work
6th week
 Agreement PowerPoint Presentation
 Grammatical gender
 Traditional analysis

 The perspective approach Content -Focused Method


 Captain kirk’s infinitive Pair Work, Group Work
 The descriptive approach PowerPoint Presentation
7th week  Structural analysis
 Constituent analysis
 Labeled and bracketed sentences
 A Gaelic sentence

 Syntax Content -Focused Method


 Deep and surface structure Pair Work, Group Work
 Structural ambiguity PowerPoint Presentation
8th week
 Recursion
 Tree diagrams
 Symbols used in syntactic analysis

 Phrase structure rules lexical rules Content -Focused Method


movement rules Pair Work, Group Work
9th week  Back to recursion PowerPoint Presentation
 Complement phrase

 Semantic Content -Focused Method


 Meaning Pair Work, Group Work
10th week  Semantic features PowerPoint Presentation
 Semantic roles

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 Agent and

 Content -Focused Method


Pair Work, Group Work
11th week PowerPoint Presentation

 Content -Focused Method


Pair Work, Group Work
12th week PowerPoint Presentation

Final Exam

Prerequisite Subjects

No

Course Materials and References

Yule, G. (2006). The study of language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University


Press

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