Department of English Language and Literature MA program: Linguisties Course Title: Contrastive Linguistics Course Number: 2201758 Course Description ‘The aim of this course is to develop skills of contrastive linguistic analysis through phonological, morphological and syntactic topics in an attempt to understand differences and similarities ‘between two languages, and survey theoretical and practical principles in contrastive analysis. Course objectives In this course students will 1, learn the basic concepts and issues of Contrastive Linguistics and Contrastive Analysis, 2, learn the methods and tools of CA. 3, learn about the significance of Ca in many applied linguistics fields, e.g. foreign language learning, translation, etc... Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students should be able 1. appreciate the importance of language comparison. 2. respond to questions concerning the basic concepts, notions and terms of CA, 3. be aware of the theoretical and methodological differences within, and surrounding CA, 4, conduct contrastive analysis of assigned grammatical points between English and Arabic,5. beable to write a paper that shows her/his understanding of the discussed issues and ability to utilize them in comparing between English and Arabic Reading Resourees Fora general introduction to the discipline we will depend on Carl James’ James, Carl (1981) Contrastive Analysis. Harlow: Longman. Or, the following book if you could hold of it. Krzeszowski, Tomasz (1990) Contrasting Languages: the Scope of Contrastive Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton. As for the detailed comparison of Arabic with English, we are going to follow closely Bakir, Murtadha, (unpublished manuscript) Comparing Arabic with English.. Other very useful sources that deal specifically with the comparison of English and Arabic are: Khalil, Aziz (2010) A Contrastive Grammar of English and Arabic. (2“. Ed). Jordan Book Cenrter Aziz, Y.¥.(1989). Contrastive Grammar of English and Arabic. Baghdad: Ministry of Higher Education Press Besides, we will look into a number of papers related to the different topics of discussion. Content distribution Week 1 : — Introduction: Preliminaries, and orientation Week2 : General considerations: What is CL? ; Comparative vs. contrastive linguistics Week 3: — History of CA; applications; transfer and L1 interference; strong /weak contrastive hypothesis; error analysis; interlanguageWeek 4 : — The noun phrase in English and Arabic: NP constituents in E&A; nouns and their functional categories of number, gender and case in E&A; Week 5 : — Determiners arid pronouns in E&A; articles definite, indefinite, Pronouns: personal, possessive, demonstrative, reflexive, relative Week 6: Kid al-Adha Week 7: ‘The verb phrase in E&A : verbs, verbal functional categories tense and time reference, mood, Week8 : Midterm test Week 9 : The Adjective Phrase in E&A Adjective phrases structure , syntactic functions; adjectives: form, classes, syntactic and semantic functions Week 10: The Adverb Phrase in E&A. Adverb phrase in E&A; adverbs: form, types and syntactic function Week 11: The preposition phrase in E&A Preposition phrases in E&A: syntactic functions; prepositions in E&A Week 12: The simple sentence in E&A Sentence structure in E&A; word order variation in E&A. Week 13: — Discourse functions and sentence types in E&A Sentence types : directives in E&A’ Exclamations in E&A (Paper submission) Week 14: Questions in EXA Questions: yes/no, wh-, alternative, minor types Weeks 15& 16: Syntactic processes in B&A Syntactic processes: relativization, ellipsis, passivization Final ExamGrade Distribution Presentations and class participation 15% Short research paper: 15% Midterm Test: 30% Final Exam: 40%