AIN-SHAMS UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF WOMEN FOR ARTS, SCIENCE, AND EDUCATION

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT






Course Outline
Morphology

First Semester 2014/2015


Third Year Education and Basic Education

Academic year
Phonetics

Course Title
3 hours
Lab D

Schedule & Room
This course is not based on a single course book. Nevertheless, we will
be using the following books intensively:

1. English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course by Peter
Roach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
(Assigned Chapters: 8-14)
2. A University Course in Practical Phonetics. Book 2 (chapters 1-
6)
3. Other supplementary material and online links will be handed
out on time.


Text books
Dr. Azza Abdeen
Office Hours: To be decided
Email: abdeenazza@gmail.com

Course Instructor
1. Lectures: During Lectures, you will be introduced to the
general concepts and technical terms related to larger units of
speech. Part of the lecture will be devoted to discussion of the
assigned reading and the application of the theory to specific
examples.
2. Practice: You will be required to listen to tapes, discuss the
exercises following each chapter in the textbook.

Description Course
To provide the students with the kind of general phonetic background
knowledge. The main things we expect them to come away with from
this course are:
1. How individual sounds fit together to form syllables and
words
Course Objectives
AIN-SHAMS UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF WOMEN FOR ARTS, SCIENCE, AND EDUCATION
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT





2. The super segmental features that affect syllable articulation
3. Problems of phonemic analysis
4. Aspects of connected speech


Course work assessment will include the following:
1. Attending classes
2. Class participation
3. Midterm test
4. Homework, short quizzes, written assignment, one project, power
point presentations

Assessment