Identifying Data 2015/16
Subject (*) Historia da Lingua Inglesa Code 613G03038
Study programme
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
 Fourth Obligatoria 6
Language
Galician
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Coordinador
Soto Vazquez, Adolfo Luis
 E-mail
luis.soto@udc.es
Lecturers
Soto Vazquez, Adolfo Luis
 E-mail
luis.soto@udc.es
Web
General description Desenrolo diacrónico da lingua inglesa

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A1 Coñecer e aplicar os métodos e as técnicas de análise lingüística e literaria.
A2 Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual.
A9 Elaborar textos orais e escritos de diferente tipo en lingua galega, española e inglesa.
A10 Ter capacidade para avaliar criticamente o estilo dun texto e para formular propostas alternativas e correccións.
B1 Utilizar os recursos bibliográficos, as bases de datos e as ferramentas de busca de información.
B2 Manexar ferramentas, programas e aplicacións informáticas específicas.
B4 Ser capaz de comunicarse de maneira efectiva en calquera contorno.
B6 Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, planificar e xestionar o tempo e resolver problemas de forma efectiva.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Coñecer e aplicar os métodos e as técnicas de análise lingüística e literaria A1
Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual A2
 B1
Manexar ferramentas, programas e aplicacións informáticas específicas. B2
Ser capaz de comunicarse de maneira efectiva en calquer contorno. B4
Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, planificar e xestionar o tempo e resolver problemas de forma efectiva. B6
Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual. A2
Elaborar textos orais e escritos de diferente tipo en lingua galega estranxeira. A9
Ter capacidade para avaliar críticamente o estilo dun texto e para formular propostas alternativas e correccións. A10

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Introduction
The place of the English in Germanic and Indo-European
The Old English period
The Middle English period
The Modern English period 		Phonology and Morphology
Semantics and Vocabulary: Foreign influence
The stratification of the Old English Vocabulary
Syntax and word order
Old Englisgh Dialects
The spread of French and English
The decline of French in England
The linguistic influence of the Conquest
The Rise of a London Standard
Phonology and Morphology
Semantics and Vocabulary
Syntax and Word order
Loand words and word formation
The study of geographical variation in Middle English
Varieties of Early Modern English
Attitudes to English
Sounds and spellings: The Great Vowell Shift
Loan words and word formation

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech A1 21 0 21
Case study A2 2 28 30
ICT practicals A9 0 48 48
Oral presentation B4 4 0 4
Objective test A10 2 0 2
Glossary A21 2 20 22
Directed discussion B6 B2 5 0 5
Critical bibliographical B1 0 6 6
Document analysis A1 0 5 5
 
Personalized attention 7 0 7
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Teacher-guided discussion and debate of primary texts and their problems
Case study Critical reading and analysis of primary texts in class.
ICT practicals Writing of essays in English in response to reading of primary texts.
Oral presentation Oral exposition of the writing essays.
Objective test List of questions chosen from the primary texts
Glossary List of words taken from the primary texts
Directed discussion Teacher-guided discussion on primary texts.
Critical bibliographical Analysis of bibliografical sources.
Document analysis Comment on relevant texts

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Glossary
ICT practicals
Objective test
Case study
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Oral presentation
Description
Teacher-guided discussion and debate of primary texts and their problems.

Critical reading and analysis of primary texts in class.


Writing of essays in English in response to reading of primary texts.
Oral exposition of the writing essays.


List of questions chosen from the primary texts.


Lists of words from the primary texts


Critical analysis of primary texts and brief exploration of bibliographical resources

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Glossary A21 List of words and their meaning taken from the primary texts 5
ICT practicals A9 Wrinting of essays in response to the reading of primary texts 30
Objective test A10 List of questions chosen from the primary texts 30
Case study A2 Class discussion of texts with short written exercises. 25
Oral presentation B4 Presentation of the essays in class 5
Directed discussion B6 B2 Comentario sobre textos relevantes dirixidos por o profesor 2
Document analysis A1 Análise crítica de textos importantes das fintes bibliográficas. 3
 
Assessment comments

Class discussion of texts with short written exercises will be worth  25% of your final grade.

The first essay (500-750 words will be worth 10% of your final grade. The second essay  (1000-1200) will be worth 20% of yor final grade.

A final exam (objective test) covering all course work. This will be 30 per cent of your final grade. Oral presentation, glossary,  document analyss and directed discussion will be 15 per cent of your final grade.

All evaluated work must score al least 4/10. You must do at leat 50 per cent of the work required to be eligible for a final grade. If yo fail to pass either the final exam,  your essays, the short written exercises or the oral presentation, these parts must be repeated in the July exam period.

Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity.

Sources of information
Basic Baugh, A. & Cable, T. (2010). A History of the English Language. London: Routledge
Blake, N.F. (1996). A History of the english Language. . London: Macmillan Press
Sweet, H. (1998). Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press
Barber, C. (1997). Early Modern English. Edimburgh: Edimburgh UP.
Freeborn, D. (1998). From Old english ro Standard Englisf. London: Macmillan Press.
Hogg, R.M. et Al. (1992). The Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Barber, C. (1997). The English Language: A Historical Introduction. Cambridge
Ramat, G. & Ramat, P. (eds). (1998). The Indo-European Languages. London: Routledge
Pyles,T. & Algeo, J. (1993). The Origins and development of the English Language. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers

Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.