Contrastive Grammar - English

obligatory courses

Successful completion of the previous year of study.

The student uses the terminology of grammatical description acquired during such courses as descriptive grammar of Polish and descriptive grammar of the language of instruction.

Classroom

Presentation of the basic issues in contrastive grammar studies which can be used in the field of translating texts between English and Polish, and in teaching English to Poles.

The course covers theoretical and practical issues related to English-Polish contrastive grammar.

Issues discussed:

Transfer and intereference

Congruence and equivalence

Methodology of comparing languages

Selected syntactic issues - a contrastive approach

Selected semantic issues - a contrastive approach

seleted pragmatic issues - a contrastive approach

Course workload:

- 15 h - classroom activities - 1 ECTS

Bartmiński, J. (red.) 2001.Współczesny Język Polski. Lublin: UMCS.

Grucza F. 1986. O niemożności ukonstytuowania się stosowanej lingwistyki kontrastywnej. Przegląd glottodydaktyczny 7,7-34. Warszawa.

Krzeszowski, T. 2013. Time Works Wonders. Selected Papers in Contrastive and Cognitive Linguistics. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Lukszyn, J. (red.) 1996. Gramatyki translacyjne. Warszawa: KJS.

Willim, E., Manczak-Wohfeld, E. 1997. A Contrastive Approach to Problems with English. Warszawa: PWN.

ILS (summer semesetr) - see information for the summer semester instruction cycle

Knowledge:

has basic knowledge of the subject and methodological specificity within the field of contrastive linguistics; is able to state the place of contrastive linguistics within the system of scientific disciplines (S_W01; K_W01)

knows and understands the basic aspects of research methodology of contrastive linguistics (S_W04; K_W03)

knows the basic linguistic and grammatical terminology, theories and methodology of linguistics (S_W08; K_W04)

Skills:

is able to apply basic research skills within the field of contrastive grammar of English; is able to select appropriate methods and research tools allowing to find solutions for complex problems in contrastive linguistics (S_U02; K_U02)

is able to search, analyse, evaluate and solve certain problems related to contrastive linguistics including the following fields: phonetics, syntax, morphematics and word formation (S_U06; K_U04)

Socio-cultural competencies:

is able to interact and work in groups/in pairs, taking different roles in them; is able to manage a small team, taking the responsibility for the results of the team work (K_K01, K_K02);

is able to properly define the priorities for the implementation of a task set by themselves and/or others; is able to manage the time appropriately and accomplish the tasks by the given deadline (K_K03)

is able to broaden the knowledge acquired during the Course of Contrastive Grammar; is conscious of the need to regularly search for new sources of information (texts, articles, dictionaries, etc.) (S_K05; K_K06)

IKSI (sem. zimowy):

Metody oceny pracy studenta/ udział w ocenie końcowej (100%)

1 ocena ciągła (bieżące przygotowanie do zajęć i wykonywanie zadań podczas zajęć) 20%

2 Praca zaliczeniowa 30%

3 Pisemny test końcowy 50%

Skala ocen:

55%-69% = 3

70%-74% = 3+

75%-84% = 4

85%-89% = 4+

90%-100% = 5

1. Nieobecności – dopuszczalne 3 nieusprawiedliwione nieobecności w semestrze

ILS (summer semester) - information on methods and criteria of student assessment (credit requirements) is provided at the particular instruction-cycle level (summer semester)