| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Linguistics (X) |
Focuses on developing reception and production skills (listening and reading, speaking and writing). Instruction also includes an intensive review of English grammar and basic sentence construction.
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Focus on writing skills such as paragraph development and rhetorical pattern and oral production skills such as group discussions, individual oral presentations and seminars. Course content drawn from a variety of academic disciplines.
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Provides writing instruction for non-native English speaking graduate students needing to improve accuracy and fluency in written academic English. Emphasizes sentence- and discourse-level grammar and vocabulary relevant to academic writing at the graduate level.
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Focus on advanced oral and writing skills. Studentswork on improving fluency in written english, developing expository writingstrategies, and practicing editing skills.
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Prepares students for graduate-level academic writing. Focuses on rhetorical strategies and patterns of development used in a variety of writing typically required for graduate courses. Through negotiated writing projects, students learn rhetorical conventions used in their disciplines and develop prose style.
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Designed to meet individual needs of ESL students either individually or in small groups. Open to foreign students at any level of proficiency.
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Focuses on listening comprehension and oral production skills necessary for participation in an American university classroom: group discussions, conversational strategies, and individual oral presentations.
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Advanced course designed to refine students' skills in classroom discussionand oral presentations. Course content will be drawn from a variety of academic disciplines.
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This is an intercultural teacher-training course with an emphasis on pronunciation and the oral production skills necessary for successful communication in the American university classroom. Each student is videotaped twice.
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This course is intended for students who have problems in English pronunciation or who wish to improve their pronunciation. Instruction will include a general review of vowels, consonants, stress and intonation patterns.
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Review and practice of sentence and discourse level grammatical structures for non-native speakers of English. Development of academic vocabulary for writing and interpretive activities. Coursework focuses on effective expression and editing of written academic English.
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Introduction to the scientific study of language: the nature of language structure; the social and cultural function of language; the origin and the learning of language; language change and the reconstruction of languages at earlier stages.
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Honors course that involves introductions to the scientific study of language: The nature of language structure;the social and cultural function of language; the origin and the learning of language; language change and the reconstruction of languages at earlier stages.
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The evolution of English from its Germanic origins to its present status as a lingua franca among the world's cultures. Topics include influences from other languages, English-based creoles, the major contemporary dialects, and the concept of Standard English.
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Introduction to a non-Indo-European language, which varies from year to year.
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Examination of the way social roles and relations are constructed and maintained via language, including the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories and the role of metaphor in domains from everyday interaction to advertising and political discourse.
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An introduction to the origin and evolution of words: language families, sound correspondences, and cognates; word-formation and loanwords; changes in meaning and form; etymology; dialectal differences in lexicon; vocabulary as historical and comparative evidence.
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How language defines the relationship of the individual to society; the role language plays in constituting power, hierarchy, ethnicity, gender, ideology, and other aspects of social identity; how speakers use language to display identity and define social context. Emphasis on sociolinguistic diversity in American society.
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Focuses on the biological mechanism involved in the production and perception of language. These biological mechanisms are presented from both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic (hominid evolution) perspective. Special emphasis is placed on the anatomy, physiology and genetic basis of the auditory system, the vocal (via the respiratory) system and the brain.
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An introduction to the analytic methodology in the study of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. A typologically oriented course designed to demonstrate how linguists analyze languages.
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Can a person who speaks two languages ever be as authentic and proficient in those languages as two monolinguals? Are their brains organized differently? Course explores the neural, linguistic, psychological, sociological, cultural, and other interdisciplinary ramifications of being a bilingual.
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An introduction to the articulatory and acoustic properties of speech sounds. Survey of speech sounds found in the languages of the world. Emphasis on ear training and transcription using the IPA.
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Introduction to the description and analysis of the sound patterns of natural language.
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How meaning is encoded in words in the languages of the world. Morphological and morphophonemic processes, lexical categories, derivation and inflection, productivity, tense, aspect, mode, case, concord, valence changes (passives, antipassives, benefactives, causatives), morphological typologies.
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Similarities and differences among languages in the grammatical devices they use to signal relations between nouns and verbs, negation, comparison, attribution (adjectives), and backgrounding. Data from a range of languages presented and analyzed.
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