E-Learning Guelma

This course is about Standard English grammar. Its main aim is to provide a proper teaching and learning of grammatical concepts and structures. 

Successful teaching of the target language grammar would encourage the students and enhance their abilities to use grammatical structures in written and spoken productions correctly and meaningfully, in addition to improving their ability of self-correction when using these grammatical structures. 

The topics to be covered in this course are:

- The sentence (subject, predicate, modifiers, and the phrase).

- The clause (independent, dependent, subordinate, relative).

- Relative clauses (defining and non-defining) and relative pronouns.

- Conjunctions (Subordinating, coordinating, and correlative).

- Types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex).

- Transformation of sentences (simple to compound, compound to simple, simple to complex, complex to simple)

- Phrases (participial, gerund, prepositional, infinitive, appositive).

This course aims at introducing the students to Reading skills throughout lectures encompassing a significant range of strategies, The course starts by exploring a general overview of reading as a subject to the specific reading skills set needed to enhance students academic reading.

Sociolinguistics is an introduction to the study of human language viewed from a social and historical perspective. The field of sociolinguistics deals with ways in which language serves to define and maintain group identity and social relationships among speakers.

While we will explore all of these subjects and the interactions among them, our main emphasis will be on Sociolinguistics, including both correlational sociolinguistics, and many topics in the sociology of language. Included among the latter are situations of language contact.