Komplex szakterületi zárószigorlat és Szakmódszertani zárószigorlat (PAN)

Komplex szakterületi zárószigorlati tételsor (PAN)

Literature, culture and history

1/ Milestones in British history I. From 1603 to 1901

2/ Milestones in British history II. From 1901 to 2001

3/ Milestones in American history I. The birth of the USA: from the colonial era to the War of 1812

4/ Milestones in American history II. Slavery, abolition, segregation and the civil rights in USA history

5/ Milestones in American history III. From 1945 to 2001

6/ William Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic art and its historical background (the Tudor era)

7/ British literature in the 18^th century: representatives, genres and themes

8/ British literature in the 19^th-century: representatives, genres and themes

9/ British literature in the 20^th-century: representatives, genres and themes

10/ The First American Renaissance in literature

11/ The formation and the collapse of the American Dream reflected in American literature

12/ Black voices in American literature from slavery to the first Black Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

13/ The political system of the United Kingdom (the monarchy, symbols, political parties, elections, legal system)

14/ The political system of the United States (legislation, jurisdiction and the executive power, elections, the presidential system, the constitution)

English linguistics

1. The classification of languages.

2. The production of speech sounds. English vowel and consonant phonemes. Suprasegmental phonology (stress, intonation). Aspects of connected speech.

3. Infinitives and Gerunds = Yule, pp. 138-145.

4. Logical categories of the verb: Tense, aspect, mood and voice. = Yule: Tenses (pp 16-25); The passive (pp 56-65); The subjunctive or should in noun clauses (p 167)

5. Various concepts expressed by the anomalous finites. = Yule: Modals (pp 28-41)

6. Logical categories of the noun: Number, gender and case. = Yule: Articles and nouns (pp 68-79) 

7. Syntactic functions and semantic sub-classification of adjectives and adverbs. = Yule: Adjectives and adverbs (pp 110-121); Adverbial clauses (pp 196-205)

8. Characteristics of the closed-class items. Determiners, pronouns and prepositions. = Yule: Determiners and quantifiers (pp 82-93); Pronouns, substitution and ellipsis (pp 96-102); Prepositions (pp 124-135) 

9. The simple sentence: Syntactic and semantic roles of clause elements. = Yule: Sentences (pp 2-11)

10. Sentence types and discourse functions. Questions and negation. = Yule: Negatives and questions (pp 44-53)

11. Grammatical devices of structure expansion and structure reduction: coordination, subordination, pro-forms and ellipsis. = Yule: Connectors, prepositions and conjunctions (p 210); Pronouns, substitution and ellipsis (pp 104-107)

12. The definition of pragmatics. Implicature. Presupposition. Deixis. Speech act theory. Conversation analysis.

13. The English language in a historical perspective: the evolution of English until 1066.

14. The evolution of English from 1066 to the present day.

English language teaching methodology

(Egyben Szakmódszertani zárószigorlat diszciplináris mesterképzés utáni 2 féléves és anglisztika alapszak utáni 6 féléves rövid ciklusú képzéseken)

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/  Communicative language teaching: theory and practice.

4/ Alternative language pedagogies.

5/ Teaching grammar.

6/ Teaching vocabulary.

7/ Teaching pronunciation.

8/ Teaching productive skills – speaking and writing.  

9/ Teaching receptive skills – listening and reading.

10/ Lesson planning. The process of planning a lesson.

11/ Classroom management (organising the class, pair work, group work, whole class teaching).

12/ Individual differences in the classroom and their management.

13/ The main theoretical and practical aspects of testing and evaluation. Error correction.

14/ The main theoretical and practical aspects of using literature / culture in the classroom.