Ling 392: Nature of Language and Language Acquisition
Nature of Language & Language Acquisition introduces the scientific study of language, which includes theoretical concepts (e.g. structural linguistics, sociolinguistics, language development in first and second language acquisition) and application of linguistics in reading and writing development. Students develop a knowledge base in linguistics, phonemic awareness, and syntax, and apply it in real-world educational settings.
This class was one of the requirements for my emphasis since it is Spanish linguistics. Since this class was linguistics in general we talked about language acquisition and the structure of sentences. In this class we talked al lot about the pronunciation of words for example how sounds are articulated, another thing we did was sentence trees as you can see in the picture below. For our final project we had to interview a person that learned a second language and record the interview so then we could go back and listen to the way they pronounce words and to check if their sentence structure was correct.