Foundation Disciplines of English Language Arts

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Foundation Disciplines
of English Language
Arts

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Foundation Disciplines of
English Language Arts
•Linguistics
•Psychology
•Sociology

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I. Linguistics
•It is the study of language
•It studies language from
various points, focusing on
the language structure,
acquisition, use and change.

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Aspects of Language:
Phonology – it refers to the
sounds of language. It is the
study of speech words.
Phoneme is the smallest
unit of speech that makes a
difference in sound to a
listener or a speaker of
language
A. Phonology

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Aspects of Language:
• English has approximately 42
phonemes. Because of
dialectical differences, this
number may be slighter
greater or smaller, depending
on the geogrsphical area.
Example:
In most countries, the word park is
pronounced with distinctive /r/sound
while in other areas the /r/ sound is much
softer, and almost inaudible.
A. Phonology

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Aspects of Language:
Since phonemes are actuallly
sounds, they are represented
by symbols called
graphemes.
Example:
The sound of /f/ is written as f in the
words foot, fish and fox. In some
words, it is written as ff as in staff
and puff. In still other words the /f/
phoneme is written as gh as in laugh
and tough. The combination of ph
represents the /f/sound in phone
A. Phonology

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Aspects of Language:
Morphology – is the study of
word forms.
A morpheme is the smallest
unit of meaning in a
language, meaning cannot be
broken down into smaller
parts.
B. Morphology

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Aspects of Language:
Free morphemes are
morphemes that can stand
alone e.g. life, galaxy, and
neighbor.
Bound morphemes are
morphemes that cannot stand
alone and are always found
attached to free morphemes.
These are affixes.
B. Morphology

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Aspects of Language:
Syntax – is the arrangement of
words into meaningful
phrases, clauses and
sentences. It is the study of
patterns which dictates how
words are combined together
to form sentences.
C. Syntax

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Aspects of Language:
A knowledge of syntax allows
the speaker or writer to take
basic sentences and also
enables to recognize those
sentences that are not
grammatically acceptable.
C. Syntax

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Aspects of Language:
Semantics-is the study of word
meanings.
Meaning is the most
important thing about
language (Goodman,1986).It
deal with the subtle shades
of meaning that language
can convey.
D. Semantics

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Aspects of Language:
Pragmatics-concerned with the role
of context in the interpretation of
meaning. It refers to the uses of
language to communicate one’s
intent in real life. The message of
a speaker’s actual words may be
heightened or may even convey
the opposite meaning, depending
on the manner it was delivered.
E. Pragmatics

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II. Psychology
•Psychology is the study of
mind and behavior.
•Psycholinguistics - is the
study of the influences of
psychological factors on the
development, use and
interpretation of language.

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III. Sociology
• sociology of language – it
focuses on the langaue effect on
the society. It deals with the way
of using a language in some
points, they are: who can use the
language, with whom and in what
condition. It refers to the
effectiveness to use the language.

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Activity

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Identify the following:
• ________1. It refers to the effectiveness
to use the language or may come to some
points, in language function
• ________2. It is the science that deals
with the study of mind and human
behavior.
• ________ 3. It is the smallest unit of
speech.
• ________ 4. It refers to how morphemes
are combined to form sentences or unit of
thought.
• ________ 5. It is the study of word
meanings.

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• _______6. one who study linguistics.
• _______7. Study of speech words.
• _______8. Study of language.
• _______9. Smallest unit of meaning in a
language.
• _______10. It is concerned with the role of
context in the interpretation of meaning.

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Prepared by:
Bea Janelle M. Macalalad
III-4 BEEd
Class No. 18