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G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S Assessment methods Language of instruction Quality assurance methods Course title Course code Type of course Level of course The assessment of student knowledge/performance will be based on the following: 1. Continuous assessment (diagnostic tests, independent homework/project tasks, achievement tests). 2. Exam: written. <strong>English</strong>. 1. Anonymous student feedback via questionnaires and surveys (permanent online anonymous commenting facility and via paper questionnaires). 2. Lecturers responsible for the same subject area collaborate closely and monitor each other’s work. 3. Occasional class observations and assessment by departmental colleagues. 4. Occasional open and public lectures for all students and colleagues also via live online technology (camera and microphone). 5. Recording of lectures via web/digital cam for later analysis and offline repetition. Theory of language change HZE703 Lecture + Seminar / Advisory hours Elective course Advanced level course Year of study First Semester One ECTS (Number of credits allocated) 3 ECTS Contact hours (15 lectures + 10 seminars + 5 advisory hours) = 0.75 credits. Student study time (67.5 hours) = 2.25 credits. Name of lecturer Prof. Dr Dunja Jutronić Learning outcomes and competences Prerequisites Course contents After the completion of the course, the students will acquire the following competencies: 1. Intellectual skills including the awareness of the inevitability of language change; 2. Practical skills in noticing the social forces that motivate linguistic change; 3. Communicative skills in presenting their actual research in language or dialect change. Completion of the third year of the undergraduate study programme. The main concern of the course is around the question: Why does language change? Students are introduced to the mechanisms of language and dialect change on all linguistic levels (phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical). The emphasis is on the theoretical insights of synchronic 23
G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S Recommended reading Supplementary reading Teaching methods Assessment methods Language of instruction Quality assurance methods investigations of the changing languages and dialects. The pure internal linguistic changes are correlated with the extralinguistic factors that influence language change. The main topics are: mechanism of linguistic change; diachrony versus synchrony; language evolution; factors influencing the course of linguistic change. The emphasis is on the most recent interpretations of language and dialect change. Aitchison, J. (2002). Language Change, Progress or Decay?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Coupland, N. & Jaworski, A. (1997). Sociolinguistics, A Reader. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Approach. Longman. Crystal, D. (2000). Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Labov. W. (2001). Principles of Linguistic Change, Social factors. Oxford: Blackwell. Nettle, D. & Romaine, S. (2000). Vanishing Voices: the Extinction of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Salikoko, S. M. (2001). The Ecology of Language Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Trudgill, P. & Schilling-Estes, N. (Eds.) (2002). Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. Trudgill, P. & Britain, D. (forthcoming). Dialects in Contact (2 nd ed.) Oxford: Blackwell. 1. Lectures (traditional with student-participation encouraged). 2. Seminars (students write short papers which are then presented in the classroom). 3. Close readings of some relevant theoretical points. 1. Active participation in the classroom discussions, oral presentations. 2. Written and oral exam at the end of the course. <strong>English</strong>. Student feedback via questionnaires. Course title Croatian language - Language Practice Course code HZEY005 Type of course Exercise course / Advisory hours Optional course. Level of course Intermediate level course. Year of study First Semester One 24
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