The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course is designed for the teacher of language in the Caribbean. The basics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics will be covered. The course also introduces students to issues concerned with language variation, criteria for describing language situations, attitudes toward languages and the functionof particular languages in a speech community. Teachers will be given the basic tools to provide preliminary formal and functional analyses of the speech communities from which their students come, introducing the teacher to issues which they will be invited to consider as they make pedagogical choices in literacy and language teaching.