This course is meant to introduce students who want to become teachers of English to general aspects of phonetic description and to the special challenges of the sound system of English. It consists of two parts:

1. Central concepts in phonetics
   
2. English phonology

Special emphasis will be put on transcription skills as well as on contrastive analyses between English and a selected 2nd language..

This course introduces students to the basic concepts underlying the production, perception, and physics of speech. It is subdivided into three parts:

1. A general survey of articulatory phonetics
2. A short introduction to auditory phonetics
3. A discussion of the most important physical aspects of speech and the most widely used experimental techniques.

Since many universities confine their curriculum to articulatory phonetics, this part is given maximum attention in the course.

The collection of these linguistic OER modules, where each module approximates the content of 90 minutes of class teaching was combined to the "Introduction to Linguistics" course EL100 for the University of Rizal System-Angono in the Philippines.

This repository/course is intended to familiarize the participants with the main structural properties of PDE (Present-Day English) grammar. It starts with a review of linguistic approaches to grammar and then discusses the central grammatical aspects of PDE sentence structure: syntactic categories and syntactic functions. A unit on PDE orthography concludes the course. Thus, it is the class for everyone who is involved in teaching or studying English in one way or another.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the main aspects of syntax in general and the structural properties of English syntax in particular.

The following topics will be discussed:

• types of grammar
• phrase structure
• principles of syntactic argumentation
• variants of generative grammar
• the structure of sentences in English

This course covers the history of the English language from its remote Indo-European origins (and even before) to the present day.

It provides substantial information about the English language at different periods and applies the main theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics, taking into account recent work in historical and general linguistics. To satisfy the needs of the current secondary school curriculum in many countries, its main focus, however, is Early Modern English. In order to successfully apply the main concepts of historical linguistics it is recommended to work through the VLC202 course "Historical Linguistics" beforehand or in parallel with ELS111.

Special emphasis will be put on practical aspects, such as, reading and the analysis of texts taken from different periods of English.

This course/repository discusses the most important theoretical foundations of phonology using as many languages (from the VLC language index) as possible. In particular the following topics will be covered:

• Phonetics (Introduction)
• Phonology (Introduction)
• Cardinal Vowels
• PDE Vowels

The initial units additionally provide an overview of the underlying concepts of phonetics.

This course/repository discusses the most important aspects necessary to understand the articulation and acoustics of consonants. In particular the following topics will be covered:

• Phonetics (Introduction)
• The Production of Consonants
• The Physics of Consonants

This course introduces students to the basic concepts underlying the production, perception, and physics of speech. It is subdivided into three parts:

1. A general survey of articulatory phonetics
2. A short introduction to auditory phonetics
3. A discussion of the most important physical aspects of speech and the most widely used experimental techniques.

Since many universities confine their curriculum to articulatory phonetics, this part is given maximum attention in the course.