Especialización en Inglés para Docentes de Educación Primaria

Módulo 1. English Grammar

1.1. The Nominal Group

1.1.1. Nouns and Pronouns
1.1.2. Gender and Number
1.1.3. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
1.1.4. Genitive Case
1.1.5. Pronouns

1.2. Adjectives and Adverbs

1.2.1. Adjectives and Adverbs
1.2.2. Adjectival Group
1.2.3. Adverbial Group

1.3. The Verb

1.3.1. The Verbal Group
1.3.2. Auxiliaries and their Use
1.3.3. Time
1.3.4. Aspect
1.3.5. Active and Passive
1.3.6. Phrasal Verbs

1.4. The English Tense System

1.4.1. The English Tense System
1.4.2. Present Tenses
1.4.3. Past Tenses
1.4.4. Future Forms

1.5. Real and Unreal Tense Usage

1.5.1. Real and Unreal Tense Usage
1.5.2. Conditional Sentences
1.5.3. Hypothesizing

1.6. Infinitives and Participles

1.6.1. Infinitive and Participles
1.6.2. Verb Patterns

1.7. Modal Verbs

1.7.1. Introduction to Modal Verbs
1.7.2. Modal Verbs of Probability
1.7.3. Modal Verbs for Obligation
1.7.4. Other Uses of Modal Verbs

1.8. Relative Clauses

1.8.1. Introduction to Relative Clauses
1.8.2. Defining Relative Clauses
1.8.3. Non-Defining Relative Clauses
1.8.4. Relative Clauses in Context

1.9. Indirect Speech

1.9.1. Introduction to indirect speech
1.9.2. Indirect statements
1.9.3. Indirect questions
1.9.4. Indirect commands, requests, and service
1.9.5. Pronouns, adjectives, and expressions of time and place

1.10. Adding Emphasis, Discourse Markers and Prepositions

1.10.1. Adding emphasis
1.10.2. Discourse markers
1.10.3. Prepositions

Módulo 2. Phonetics

2.1. Phonetics: The Science of Speech Sounds

2.1.1. Phonetics: the science of speech sounds
2.1.2. Types of phonetics
2.1.3. The phoneme and the allophone. The grapheme
2.1.4. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
2.1.5. The phonemic transcription

2.2. The Production of Speech Sounds

2.2.1. The airstream and the organs of speec
2.2.2. The respiratory system
2.2.3. The phonatory system 2.2.4. The articulatory system

2.3. The Classification of Speech Sounds I

2.3.1. Introduction to the speech sounds
2.3.2. The English vowels

2.4. The Classification of Speech Sounds II

2.4.1. The English consonants
2.4.2. Place of Articulation
2.4.3. Manner of Articulation
2.4.4. Further Classification

2.5. The Phonemic Transcription I

2.5.1. The English syllable
2.5.2. The phonemic transcription

2.6. The Phonemic Transcription II

2.6.1. Word stress and sentence stress: transcribing content and function words
2.6.2. Consonant clusters
2.6.3. English spelling

2.7. Suprasegmental Phonemes (I)

2.7.1. Introduction
2.7.2. Stress and rhythm

2.8. Suprasegmental Phonemes (II)

2.8.1. Juncture and elisión
2.8.2.Pitch: tone and intonation

2.9. Accent Variation: British English RP and American English GA (I)

2.9.1. Accent variation: RP and GA
2.9.2. RP pronunciation and GA differ most in terms of their vowel systems
2.9.3. Consonants
2.9.4. Other differences

2.10. Accent Variation: British English RP and American English GA (I)

2.10.1.Spelling and lexical differences
2.10.2. Phonetic differences

Módulo 3. Morphosyntax and aemantics in the english languag

3.1. Morphology: The morpheme

3.1.1. Introduction to morphology
3.1.2. Word and word classes
3.1.3. The morpheme
3.1.4. Allomorphy
3.1.5. The root

3.2. Morphology: Affixation

3.2.1. Introduction to affixation
3.2.2. Suffixes
3.2.3. Prefixes
3.2.4. Infixes

3.3. Morphology:Derivation without affixation and Compounding

3.3.1. Derivation without affixation
3.3.2. Compounding
3.3.3. Change of meaning of the words

3.4. Syntax: Clause structure

3.4.1. Introduction
3.4.2. Subject
3.4.3. Predicator
3.4.4. Objects
3.4.5. Complements
3.4.6. Adjuncts

3.5. Syntax: Syntactic functions of the groups (I)

3.5.1. The Nominal group
3.5.2. The Verbal group
3.5.3. The Adjectival group

3.6. Syntax: Syntactic functions of the groups (II)

3.6.1. The Adverbial group
3.6.2. Prepositional phrase

3.7. Syntax: Clause types and clause combination

3.7.1. Introduction: Speech acts and clause types
3.7.2. Declarative clause
3.7.3. Interrogative clause
3.7.4. Imperative clause
3.7.5. Prepositional phrase
3.7.6. Clause combination: Simple, compound, and complex sentences

3.8. Semantics: Semantic roles and lexical relations

3.8.1. Introduction to semantics
3.8.2. Semantic meaning
3.8.3. Semantic features
3.8.4. Semantic roles
3.8.5. Lexical relations: Synonymy, antonymy, homophones and homonyms, polysemy, metonymy, collocation

3.9. Semantics: Pragmatics and Discourse analysis

3.9.1. Pragmatics
3.9.2. Discourse analysis

3.10. Semantics: Language, society, and culture

3.10.1. Sociolinguistics: Social dialects and styles
3.10.2. Language and culture
3.10.3. Second language acquisition