Modular-Level Learning Objectives that Align with the Five
Course-Level Learning Objectives:
English 5030: Pedagogical Grammar
Course
Objective 1: Students will demonstrate
knowledge of how morphemes systematically combine to form words and how to
distinguish word classes from one another using morphological and syntactic
information.
Upon completing Part 1: 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.
- Place nouns into their appropriate sub-classes.
- Distinguish main verbs from auxiliaries.
- Find 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.
Course
Objective 2: Students will demonstrate
knowledge of the structure and systematic nature of phrases and sentences and
how to discriminate among them.
Upon completing Part 2: Phrases and Sentence Patterns, students will be able to:
- Identify different types of phrases based on their
internal structure.
- Discriminate among different types of phrases.
- Find subjects and predicates in declarative sentences,
yes/no questions, and content questions.
- Identify different types of sentences based on their
internal structure.
- 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 based on their main verb
and complement structure.
- Discriminate among different types of sentences using
movement, deletion, and substitution.
- Discriminate among different types of phrasal verbs.
Course
Objective 3: Students will demonstrate an ability to systematically identify,
describe, and categorize the constituents of sentences and their grammatical
functions, thus empowering them to conduct independent linguistic analysis.
Upon completing Part 3: Beyond Form: Testing for Grammatical Function, the students will be able to:
- Determine the grammatical functions of noun phrases.
- Determine the grammatical functions of prepositional
phrases.
- Test for the grammatical function of constituents in a
sentence using movement, deletion, and substitution.
Course
Objective 4: Students will demonstrate
knowledge of the structure and function of finite and non-finite clauses and
how to discriminate among them.
Upon completing Part 4: Finite and Non-finite Structures, students will be able to:
- Identify the four types of finite subordinate clauses.
- Discriminate among different types of finite
subordinate clauses.
- Explain the conditions under which relative pronouns
may be deleted.
- Test for the grammatical functions of finite
subordinate clauses using movement, deletion, and substitution.
- Identify the different types of nonfinite subordinate
clauses.
- Discriminate among different types of nonfinite
subordinate clauses.
- Test for the grammatical functions of nonfinite subordinate
clauses using movement, deletion, and substitution.
Course
Objective 5: Students will be able to
explain how to teach selected morphological and syntactic structures to
students.
Upon
completing each part of the class, students will be able to:
· Explain how to use the plural morpheme to identify count nouns. (Module 1)
· Explain how to use pairs of determiners such as less and fewer and much and many to distinguish between count and non-count nouns. (Module 2)
· Explain how to find the grammatical subject in different types of sentences. (Module 3)
·
Explain the difference between a DO and IO and
how to test for them. (Module 4)
·
Explain how the three manipulations of
substitution, deletion, and movement can be used in conjunction to identify the
grammatical functions of different syntactic structures. (Module 5)
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.
