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Discovering Language

Name: Discovering Language
Price: 1461 SGD

Training Provider: Singapore University of Social Sciences

Course Reference: TGS-2024047242

S$1,461

About This Course

Recognise the nature of human language and make sense of how language works through its components.
Define key concepts in the core areas of linguistics and their connections to language-related issues.
Identify basic ways of doing linguistic analysis and uncovering patterns and trends in language use.
Demonstrate basic skills for performing linguistic analysis and persuasively communicating findings from the analysis.
Explain how language is used creatively and productively in everyday life.
Apply knowledge about the structure, meaning and use of language to new data to reveal possible new patterns and trends.

What You'll Learn

ELG101 Discovering Language is an introduction to the study of language and major branches of Linguistics. Students will be exposed to systematic ways of thinking about everyday creative use of language and to means of analysing language data to discover how language works through its sounds, words, structure and use. The course provides ample opportunities to do linguistic analysis, such as discerning patterns in the use of certain linguistic features and how these patterns correlate with formality in a particular social setting. Through data-based tasks, this course will help students develop analytic, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking skills. The course does not presuppose any prior knowledge of Linguistics. It will equip students with foundational concepts and skills that can be applied to further explorations of language use in their everyday communication and professional contexts.