Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington
Schedule for Courses:
Graduate Classes
Here you'll find a list of graduate Linguistics & TESOL courses being offered during the Spring 2010 term.
Spring 2010
(See this semester on UT Arlington's Academic Calendar.)
LING 5110 TESOL Practicum (Certificate) (Park)
TBA - Call #25057
In observing ESOL classes or in teaching learners of ESOL, the student demonstrates ability to apply the principles presented in the TESOL Certificate coursework.
Prerequisites: LING 5302 and LING 5305 and permission of instructor.
LING 5302 Methods & Materials for TESOL (Kilpatrick)
TTh 5:00pm-6:20pm - Call #21488
This course is a continuation of the issues and topics discussed in LING 5301/4353, with a focus on in-depth study of the teaching of reading and writing in the ESL/EFL classroom. Included in the course will be systematic study of the application of linguistic theory to teaching in the classroom, practical application of pedagogical strategies, and development of materials and tasks to stimulate reading and writing skills in L2 learners. A key component of the course is the student’s participation in volunteer ESL tutoring.
Prerequisite: LING 5301.
LING 5307 Pedagogical Phonology of English (Kilpatrick)
TTh 3:30pm-4:50pm - Call #21489
A study of the sound system of English. Topics include segmental phonemes, stress, length, intonation and variation at the lexical and utterance levels. Application to teaching English as a second or foreign language. Problems of description; means of application; adaptation to current pedagogical methods.
Prerequisites: LING 5300 and LING 5301.
LING 5314 Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Edmondson)
TTh 2:00pm-3:20pm - Call #21490
The study of language development and change; comparative and computational methods and their uses in linguistic reconstruction; laws of language change.
Prerequisite: LING 3330 or permission of instructor.
LING 5322 Laboratory Phonology (Edmondson)
TTh 11:00am-12:20pm - Call #21491
An investigation into the physical properties of human speech. A part of the course will involve learning and using PRAAT or similar speech analysis package. No prior computer experience is assumed.
Prerequisite: LING 5320
LING 5331 Advanced Formal Syntax (Sabbagh)
TTh 9:30am-10:50am - Call #21492
A continuation of LING 5330. Investigates the syntax of apparently unbounded dependencies inconstituent questions, relative clauses and related constructions from the perspective of current developments in theoretical syntax; The syntax of anaphora.
Prerequisite: LING 5330
LING 5345 Semantics (Stvan)
TTh 12:30pm-1:50pm - Call #21493
Focuses on the representation of linguistic meaning at the lexical level. Topics may include reference and predication; componential analysis and prototype theory; categorization and the mental lexicon; connotation, euphemism and linguistic relativity; semantic roles and verb classes.
Prerequisite: LING 3340 or permission of instructor.
LING 5347 Pragmatics (Stvan)
TTh 3:30pm-4:50pm - Call #21494
Analysis of how context and form interact with meaning. Topics may include deixis, reference, speech acts, presupposition, implicature, information structure and intonation.
LING 5393 TESOL Teaching and Observation (MA Practicum) (Park)
TBA - Call #25058
In teaching learners of ESOL and observing ESOL classes, the student demonstrates ability to apply the principles presented in the M.A. TESOL coursework.
Prerequisite: LING 5302 and LING 5305 and permission of instructor.
LING 5395 Graduate Internship (Park)
TBA - Call #25059 - Contact ling.advisor@uta.edu for more info.
Employment (paid or unpaid) supervised by a faculty internship coordinator, with the student performing duties related to the academic curriculum of linguistics and/or TESOL. Students are required to submit an approved academic project related to the work performed. May be repeated with approval of Graduate Advisor.
LING 6390 Linguistics Seminar: Sustainability and Language Endangerment (Fitzgerald)
W 1:30pm-4:20pm - Call #21495
Current estimates are that more than half of the world's languages will become extinct during our lifetime. This seminar looks language endangerment, what it means for a language to become endangered, and language revitalization, examining cases where communities are seeking to maintain the number of speakers, or revive the language. This is a course with a service-learning outreach requirement, where each student will be required to participate on one of several planned trips to Oklahoma (anticipating covering travel expenses through a Graduate School grant and matching departmental funds). This offers an opportunity for students to both theorize about language endangerment, maintenance and revitalization, as well as to see endangered language teaching, revitalization, and maintenance and participate in actual projects in nearby Native American communities, tribal communities, and universities serving those communities. These partners currently include Comanche Nation College (which offers Comanche language classes), Northeastern State University (which trains Cherokee language teachers and graduates the highest number of Native American students with B.A.s in the U.S.), and the University of Oklahoma's Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (which has a significant language archive), as well as a language revitalization workshop held annually in mid-April at NSU as part of the American Indian Symposium. This class offers the prospect of making connections with future prospects for students to continue such activities. Comanche Nation College just received an ANA grant, and there is a portion budgeted to pay student interns to work on language revitalization activities. The Sam Noble museum has plans to hold a Breath of Life workshop in summer 2010, working with community members of languages that are dormant (no current speakers). The goal is to have four different trip options over the course of the semester, two during parts of spring break and the third mid-April, for students to choose from. Consult the instructor for additional information.