BEd in Primary Education / Бакалавр педагогіки в Області Початкової Освіти

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Course Unit TitleMODERN GREEK LANGUAGE II
Course Unit CodeGRK102
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated5
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Recall the basic principles of the structure of language.
  2. Recognize the levels of linguistic anaylsis: phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics.
  3. Relate language with its social context: Greek Cypriot bidialectism.
  4. Develop metalinguistic knowledge about the structure of Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot dialect.
  5. Make use the above mentioned knowledge in order to improve their teaching practices.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesNONECo-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program components Dimitrios Tombaidis, Teaching of Greek language, Vanias editions 2003.
Fivos-Anastasios Hristidis, History of Ancient Greek language, IMT editions, 2002
Course Contents - Language and linguistics: Linguistic sign (signifier, signified), the arbitrary nature of the sign, the linear nature of the signifier.
 - Language development: Language as an exclusively human characteristic, Chomsky’s generative grammar.
 - Language, communication and society: Basic elements of sociolinguistics and pragmatics, language variation, dialectology.
 - Levels of linguistic analysis: phonetics,  phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics.
 - Basic characteristics of the structure of Modern Greek language: Standard Modern Greek, Cypriot dialect

Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • Course notes
References
  • John Lyons, Introduction to linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Planned learning activities and teaching methodsLectures, discussions, assignments
Assessment methods and criteria
Mid term and final examination100%
Language of instructionGreek
Work placement(s)NO

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