(2021-2) andrs.cusacovich: Recomiendo en un 100% a la profesora Flavia Velázquez. Una persona muy brillante, simpática y alentadora con los estudiantes al momento de pasar la materia. Teniendo todo esto en cuenta, el ramo resulta muy entretenido e interesante, sobre todo para aquellas personas que no se sientan afines a esta disciplina académica.

CURSO : APPLIED GRAMMAR I
TRADUCCION : GRAMATICA APLICADA I
SIGLA : LET1331
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : NO REQUERIMENTS
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LINGUISTICS


I. DESCRIPTION

Applied Grammar I course, through the first semester of the Licenciatura en Letras Inglesas, will develop
linguistic skills regarding a functional management of grammatical categories pertaining to the learning of a
foreign language in an intermediate level of proficiency.


II. OBJECTIVES

Generals:
1. To acquire a functional and correct management of the grammatical categories of the morphosyntactic
structures of the nominal, verbal, adjectival, adverbial and prepositional phrases.
2. To apply the functional acquisition of the morphosyntactic structures in the production of written
English texts of a progressive extension and complexity.

Specifics:
1. To know the use of the grammatical category of a word and identify its function within the phrase.
2. To identify and analyze in varied corpora different word classes.
3. To produce written descriptive and narrative texts of an intermediate level with grammatical accuracy
and adequacy.


III. CONTENTS

1. The sentence.
1.1 Simple.
1.2 Compound.
1.3 Complex.

2. The nominal phrase.
2.1 Nouns: simple and compound, countable and uncountable, collective and irregular plurals.
2.2 Pronouns.
2.3 Noun cases, number and gender.
2.4 Various types of determiners and modifiers.

3. The verbal phrase.
3.1 Transitivity vs. intransitivity.
3.2 Verbal irregularity.
3.3 Active voice in the affirmative, negative and interrogative mood for present and past tenses in
their simple, continuous and perfect forms.
3.4 The imperative.
3.5 Modal verbs: capacity, ability, obligation and freedom from obligation, advice and deduction.




PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE LETRAS / Enero 2014
1

4. The adjectival phrase.
4.1 Simple adjectives.
4.2 Order of adjectives in a phrase.
4.3 Adjectival function of participles.
4.4 Possessive adjectives.
4.5 Demonstrative adjectives.

5. The adverbial phrase.
5.1 Components.
5.2 Order of adverbs in the phrase.
5.3 Main types of adverbs: manner, time and place.

6. The prepositional phrase.
6.1 Components.

7. Phrasal verbs.
7.1 Components


IV. METHODOLOGY

- Lectures.
- Task-centred activities.
- Individual and group assignments.


V. EVALUATION

- Workshop 1: 20%
- Workshop 2: 20%
- Workshop 3: 20%
- Hypermedia presentation: 5%
- Final Exam: 35%


VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compulsory:

Alexander, L. G. Longman English Grammar Practice. Essex, Longman, 1995.

Azar, Betty Schrampfer Understanding and Using English Grammar. New York, Longman,
1999.

Complementary:

Murphy, Raymond English Grammar in Use. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2004.

Prodromou, Luke Grammar and Vocabulary for First Certificate. Essex, Longman,
2000.

Willis, Dave Collins Cobuild Student's Grammar. London, Harper Collins,
1993.




PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE LETRAS / Enero 2014
2