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Linguistics

A file with the mock linguistics test with key.

Recommended Literature

  • Adams, V. (1973) An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. London: Longman.
  • Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., Finegan, E. (1999) Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.
  • Brown, G., Yule, G. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Cruttenden, A. (1994) Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. Arnold.
  • Crystal, D. (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dontcheva-Navrátilova, O. (2005) Grammatical Structures in English: Meaning in Context. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
  • Gethin, H. (1992) Grammar in Context, Proficiency Level English. Nelson Collins Ltd.
  • Greenbaum, S., Quirk, R. (1991) A Student's Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.
  • Halliday, M. A. K., Hasan, R. (1992) Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
  • Hladký, J., Ru_icka, M. (1998) A Functional Onomatology of English. Brno: Masarykova univerzita
  • Leech, G. N., Deuchar, M., Hoogenraad, R. (1982) English Grammar for Today. A New Introduction. Macmillan Press Ltd.
  • McCarthy, M. (1991). Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Palmer, F. R. (1976) Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Roach, P. (2000) English Phonetics and Phonology. A Practical Course. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press.
  • Svartvik, J. Leech, G. N. (1994) A Communicative Grammar of English. 2nd Edition. London: Longman.
  • Urbanová, L. (1998) A Handbook of English Phonetics and Phonology. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
  • Yule, G. (1996) The Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Literature

A Mock Test for the literature written exam.

British Literature

  1. Old English Literature.
  2. Middle English Literature (poetry, prose, the origins of drama).
  3. Renaissance poetry and prose.
  4. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
  5. The development of the novel.
  6. Restoration and the Enlightenment era.
  7. Romanticism: poetry.
  8. The 19th-century novelists.
  9. Poetry, prose and drama of the second half of the 19th century.
  10. Modernism versus realism at the beginning of the 20th century.
  11. Inter-war and war period.

American Literature

  1. Literature of the early settlers.
  2. Literature of the Age of Reason.
  3. Transcendentalism and romanticism.
  4. 19th-century realism and local color.
  5. Naturalism and muckraking.
  6. American poetry of the 19th century.
  7. American modernism.
  8. Literature of the South and West.

Methodology

A Mock Test for the methodology written exam.

  1. Language and language learning background Describing language - language systems (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling, functions), language skills ( and sub-skills). Why do people learn languages?
  2. Learner motivation and interest
  3. Different types and categories of learners
  4. The teacher and the learner
    • Roles
    • rapport
  5. Lesson planning
    • Aims
    • objectives
    • format
  6. Lesson management
  7. Selection, evaluation and use of teaching material
  8. Teaching vocabulary
  9. Teaching grammar
  10. Teaching pronunciation
  11. Teaching reading
  12. Teaching listening
  13. Teaching speaking
  14. Teaching writing
  15. Mistakes and errors, giving feedback
  16. Testing and assessment
  17. Classroom language
  18. Teaching culture
  19. Independent learning
  20. A reflective teacher - professional development

Basic literature

  • Ur, P. A Course in Language Teaching : Practice and Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Harmer, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching. 7th Edition. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, 1994.
  • Harmer, J. How to Teach English. Essex: Longman Group UK Limited, 1998.
  • Scrivener, J. Learning Teaching. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005.

These books are interchangeable, you can study from any of them. Other useful reference books and materials as they appear in the course