DISZCIPLINÁRIS MESTERKÉPZÉS
OSZTATLAN ANGOLTANÁR SZAK
ZÁRÓSZIGORLATI TÉTELEK
Literature, culture and history
1/ William Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic art.
2/ Major trends, themes, genres and poets in the history of British poetry to 1900.
3/ Major trends, themes, genres and authors of the British novel to 1900.
4/ Major trends, themes, genres and authors of British drama to 1900.
5/ Major trends in 20th-century British literature.
6/ Milestones in British history I. From prehistory to 1603.
7/ Milestones in British history II. From 1603 to the present day.
8/ The political system of the United Kingdom (the monarchy, symbols, political parties, elections, legal system).
9/ An overview of English-Hungarian cultural contacts.
10/ The First American Renaissance.
11/ The formation and the collapse of the American Dream reflected in American literature.
12/ Black voices from Slavery to the first black Nobel Prize Winner in Literature.
13/ Images of America: The popular iconography of a culture.
14/ Milestones in American history I: From the colonial era to the outbreak of the Civil War.
15/ Milestones in American history II. From the Civil War to the present day.
16/ The political system of the United States (legislation, jurisdiction and the executive power, elections, the presidential system, the constitution).
17/ Dimensions of Australian culture: history, immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism, symbols and celebrations.
English inguistics
1/ Elements of grammar, parts of speech. Formal and functional classification of verbs.
2/ Logical categories of the verb: Tense, aspect, mood and voice.
3/ Logical categories of the noun: Number, gender and case.
4/ Various concepts expressed by the anomalous finites.
5/ Syntactic functions and semantic sub-classification of adjectives and adverbs.
6/ Characteristics of the closed-class items. Determiners, pronouns and prepositions.
7/ The simple sentence: Syntactic and semantic roles of clause elements.
8/ Sentence types and discourse functions. Questions and negation.
9/ Grammatical devices of structure expansion and structure reduction: coordination, subordination, pro-forms and ellipsis.
10/ The production of speech sounds. English vowel and consonant phonemes. Suprasegmental phonology (stress, intonation). Aspects of connected speech.
11/ The definition of pragmatics. Implicature. Presupposition. Deixis. Speech act theory. Conversation analysis.
12/ The main questions of sociolingustics. The relationship between language, society and culture.
13/ Definitions of style. The concept of register and dialect. Functional styles: the language and style of newspaper. Text types and style types: genres. Figurative speech and imagery.
14/ Major contrasts between standard British, American and Australian English.
15/ The English language in a historical perspective: the evolution of English until 1066.
16/ The evolution of English from 1066 to the present day.
English language teaching methodology
1/ Methods of language teaching in a historical perspective.
2/ Theories of language acquisition in a psycholinguistic perspective: Innateness, environmental theories and cognitive accounts of L2 learning.
3/ The linguistic input for first and second language acquisition.
4/ Teaching grammar.
5/ Teaching vocabulary.
6/ Teaching pronunciation.
7/ Teaching speaking. Communicative activities.
8/ Controlled oral practice (drills).
9/ Teaching skills – reading.
10/ Teaching skills – writing. Written communicative activities.
11/ Teaching skills – listening.
12/ Communicative language teaching: theory and practice.
13/ Lesson planning.
14/ Planning – syllabi and coursebooks. Coursebook evaluation.
15/ Error correction.
16/ The main theoretical and practical assumptions of testing and evaluation.
17/ Classroom management.
18/ Classroom English.
19/ Using IT devices in the classroom.
20/ Individual differences in the classroom and their management.
21/ The main theoretical and practical aspects of using children’s literature in the classroom.