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Syllabus

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN

SYLLABUS DEL CURSO PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

 

GENERAL INFORMATION.

 

FACULTY	Faculty of Education	PROGRAM	B. A in English Teaching
AREA	DISCIPLINE TRAINING AREA	COURSE	PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
COURSE ID NUMBER	BFE22B00A103	SEMESTER	Second
NUMBER OF CREDITS	2	DATE	21/07/2014
HOURS OF IN-CAMPUS WORK	32	HOURS OF INDEPENDENT WORK	64
PROFESSOR	CARLOS CARRILLO	E-mail	@ugc.edu.co

 

GENERAL OBJECTIVE.

 

At the end of the course, the students will be able, among other things, to understand and reflect on the basic concepts related with Phonetics and Phonology, and how they can be connected to generate an improvement of pronunciation of the English Language, not only for them, but for their future students, by generating a virtual product (Website) that demonstrates their ability to share their new knowledge to others, using ICTs.

 

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES.

 

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the differences between Phonetics and Phonology.

2. Explain the airstream process and the production of sounds.

3. Identify the IPA symbols, their corresponding sounds and the way those sounds are classified.

4. Identify how the English consonant and vowel sounds are produced and classified.

5. Reflect on how the process of syllabication and intonation can influence the message of oral texts.

7. Analyze the intonation patterns, in order to evaluate their speaking performance.

8. Evaluate their autonomous learning process.

9. Display in a creative way the products of the course in a website.

 

AREA DISCUSSION PROBLEM

 

Which are the phonetic and phonological aspects, the pre-service English teachers must work on, in order to get acquainted with the production of speech sounds and improve their pronunciation in English and at the same time to help others improve it?

 

6.            COURSE DISCUSSION ISSUES.

 

·         What are the differences between phonetics and phonology?

·         How do humans produce speech sounds?

·         How are the speech sounds represented?

·         How is the English sound system conformed?

 

7.            COMPETENCES.

 

Pre-service teachers must develop the following competences:

·         Good autonomous learning habits, reinforced with good verbal communication.

·         Awareness of innovative instructional methods which include information technologies.

·         Reflect about the best transformative educational learning and teaching methods.

·         Apply new knowledge to daily life in order to improve pronunciation.

·         Ability to transmit new knowledge to others.

 

8.            ACTIVITIES.

 

Students will design a website, which will be their course project. In it, they will display the products of each one of the sessions, according to the topic presented.

 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA.
TYPE OF ASSESSMENT:	PERCENTAGE%	DATE	ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
PROFESSOR' ASSESSMENT	90%	6th - 12th and 17th week	Continuous assessment of website design (60%)  1-hour written examination at the end of Semester (40%)
SELF-ASSESSMENT	5%	6th - 12th and 17th week	Checklist with established criteria.
PEER-ASSESMENT	5%	6th - 12th and 17th week	Checklist with established criteria.