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Understanding of the nature and dimensions of language knowledge. Improvement of the student‘s knowledge of the English language in all of its aspects

The proseminar will concentrate on the question of what we mean by knowing or learning a language? What does being able to speak a language comprise?

What types of knowledge are required, i.e., declarative knowledge, procedural knowldge,  metalinguistic knowledge?

How do skills, competence and proficiency relate?

It is suggested that a command of English probably requires lexical knowledge, orthographic knowledge, grammatical knowledge, semantic knowledge, pragmatic knowledge, morphological knowledge etc. It requires knowledge of items and principles, but also a knowledge of procedures such as derivational procedures, phonetic rather than phonemic rules, knowledge of standards and variation.

Finally, we shall address the question of how to assess and test language knowledge. 

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Huddleston and Pullum, Cambridge Grammar of the English Language,, cup 2002

Angela Downing and Philip Locke, A University Course in English Grammar, london 2002

Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University,Language Files. Materials for an Introduction to Language and Lingusitics, Columbus 2007

The New Oxford Dictionary of English, oup 2012

European Council. the European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching,Assessment, cup 2001

BA Programme 2015: positive completion of mandatory module 5

BA Programme 2009: none

Teacher Training Programme BA 2015: positive completion of mandatory module 10

BA "old" ("2009): PS 2: Systemic and/or Applied English Linguistics