INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURAL STUDIES (INSLACS)

NJALA UNIVERSITY
YEAR THREE SECOND SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: LING. 332 COURSE TITLE: CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK ONE
- Meaning of Contrastive Analysis
- History of Contrastive Analysis
- Relevance of Contrastive Analysis
WEEK TWO
- Scope of Contrastive Analysis
- Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
Practice Session
WEEKS THREE, FOUR and FIVE
- Criticism against the C.A.H.
- Language Transfer
- Types of Language Transfer
Practice Session
WEEKS SIX, SEVEN and EIGHT
- The Inter-language Theory
- Systematic, dynamic and variable application of rules
Practice Session
WEEKS NINE and TEN
- Methodology of Contrastive Analysis/Contrastive Approach to Error Analysis
- Transfer with Ignorance
- Transfer Without Ignorance
- Calque
- Hyper-correction
WEEKS ELEVEN and TWELVE
Practical Excercises
REFERENCES
Contrasting Languages - by Tomasz P. Krzesawski
Linguistics Across Cultures – by Robert Lado(1957)
Communication Across Cultures: Translation Theory & Contrastive Text Linguistics – by
Hatim,Basil(1996)
Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics – by Maria, De et al(2008)
The Grammatical Structures of English & Spanish – by Stockwell, Robert P.
MR A. J. SANDY