Summer Seminar in Linguistics
The Department periodically conducts special training seminars for professionals engaged in work related to the field of linguistics such as language teachers and translators. These seminars tackle the linguistic aspects of these languages to encourage them to teach based on linguistic findings and better equip them when faced with questions about language structure and grammar. The seminar also caters to language and linguistics enthusiasts who want to advance their skills in the scientific study of language.
The topics of the Summer Seminar in Linguistics offered by the Department include but are not limited to the following:
| Cluster | Class | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Linguistics | Linguistics for Language Teachers | Introductory linguistics course for teachers of Philippine and foreign languages |
| Phonetics & Phonology | The sounds of human languages and the sound patterns of individual languages | |
| Morphology | The science of word formation | |
| Syntax | The structure of clauses | |
| Semantics | The study of linguistic meanings | |
| Historical Linguistics and Language Documentation | Diachronic Linguistics | Diachronic linguistic analysis and the subgrouping of Philippine languages |
| Language Documentation | Data collection and archiving | |
| Dialectology | Discovering systematic speech varieties | |
| Applied Linguistics | Ethnolinguistics | Discovering cultural systems and knowledge through languages |
| Lexicography | Writing dictionaries | |
| Psycholinguistics | Language and the mind | |
| Sociolinguistics | Language and society | |
| Translation | Linguistic issues and methods in translation | |
| Foreign Language Education | Strategies and methods for teaching and learning foreign languages |