English 3620 Online/Hybrid: Language Structure and
Acquisition for K-8 Teachers
Student Learning Outcomes for the Five Goals
Goal
1: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, principles, and systematic
nature of phonology.
Upon completing Part 1: Introduction to Language and English Phonetics and Phonology, students will be able to:
- Distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive
grammar.
- Match important concepts involving language and linguistics
with their definitions.
- Discuss the differences between human language and
animal communication.
- Describe consonants according to their phonetic
features.
- Distinguish consonants from one another according to
their phonetic features.
- Describe vowels according to their phonetic features.
- Distinguish vowels from one another according to their
phonetic features.
- Distinguish between contrastive and non-contrastive
features in English.
- Read passages written in broad transcription.
- Write words in broad transcription.
- Distinguish minimal pairs from non-minimal pairs.
- Group sounds into natural classes.
- Apply the correct stress pattern to different types of
phrases in English.
- Match types of simple clauses with their normal
intonation patterns.
- Apply spelling patterns to identify the vowel quality
of printed vowels in simple words.
- Distinguish between regular and irregular words
according to their spelling pattern.
Goal
2: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, principles, and
systematic nature of morphology.
Upon completing Part 2: General Morphology and Word Classes, students will be able to:
- Determine the functions of derivational morphemes.
- Identify the word class of roots.
- Identify the word class of derived words.
- Parse words into morphemes.
- Punctuate for possession with the apostrophe.
- Explain the differences between inflectional and
derivational morphemes.
- Place nouns into their appropriate sub-classes.
- Distinguish main verbs from auxiliaries.
- Identify a verb group in a clause.
- Distinguish regular from irregular verbs using
morphological characteristics.
- Distinguish the forms classes from one another.
- Find the first auxiliary of a verb using ‘not’ and
inversion.
- Identify adjectives using an adjective frame.
- Distinguish the different structure classes from one
another.
Goal
3: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the concepts, principles, and
systematic nature of syntax.
Upon completing Part 3: Syntax, students will be able to:
- Discriminate among different types of phrases.
- Find subjects and predicates in declarative sentences,
yes/no questions, and content questions.
- Explain how to find subjects in different types of
clauses.
- Find indirect objects by using movement.
- Rewrite ditransitive sentences using movement.
- Transform active sentences into passives and passives
into active sentences.
- Classify types of sentences bases on their main verb
and complement structure.
- Define the different types of phrases: noun phrase,
verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverb phrase, and prepositional phrase.
- Define the different types of clauses: intransitive,
intensive, monotransitive, ditransitive, and complex transitive.
Goal
4: Students will demonstrate a systematic means for identifying, describing, and
categorizing the constituents of sentences and their grammatical functions,
thus empowering students to conduct independent linguistic analysis.
Upon completing Part 3: Syntax, students will be able to:
- Discriminate among different types of sentences using
movement, deletion, and substitution.
- Determine the grammatical functions of noun phrases.
- Determine the grammatical functions of prepositional
phrases.
- Discriminate among different types of finite
subordinate clauses.
- Test for the grammatical function of constituents in a
sentence using movement, deletion, and substitution.
Goal 5: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the concepts,
principles, and systematic nature of semantics and language acquisition.
Upon completing Part 4: Semantics and Language Acquisition, students will be able to:
- Match important concepts in semantics with their
definitions.
- Write two appropriate paraphrases for ambiguous
statements.
- Identify the semantic relationships between words in a
pair.
- Distinguish between different types of antonyms.
- Match important concepts in language acquisition with
their definitions.
- Identify important concepts in language acquisition.
- Discuss the process of first language acquisition,
including the stages of acquisition and the possible role of a critical
period.
Each
of the student learning outcomes listed above will be associated with its
appropriate module in the course. Students have the opportunity to fulfill the
student learning objectives by completing the exercises for each module.
Students will then demonstrate their level of knowledge of the learning
objectives by taking the examination for the module. The content and form of
the examinations are directly related to the exercises, so students must
complete the exercises if they expect to do well on the examination.
