Applied Linguistics of the Spanish Language

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquiring of knowledge of trends in modern linguistics with overlap into other disciplines (e.g., semantics, textual linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, politolinguistics, corpus linguistics).
- Acquiring knowledge of the concepts and selected theoretical foundations of the linguistic disciplines of applied linguistics (e.g. prototype theory, speech act theory).
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the competence to characterize applied linguistics and its place in modern linguistics, with emphasis on its relationship to traditional linguistic disciplines in the context of the development of linguistics.
- Acquisition of competence to identify and assess the current contribution and further potential of the knowledge of applied linguistics to the investigation of the principles of human language functioning (e.g. processes of speech production and comprehension, processes of acquisition of mother tongue or foreign language).
- Acquisition of the competence to explain the possibilities of applying the knowledge of applied branches of linguistics in linguistic communication and in the process of its improvement.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to comprehensively apply the acquired knowledge and competences in the production of one's own linguistic expression in the target language.