English Philology Grammar and its Theory Faculty of Philology, Department of English Philology Assoc. Prof. Dr. Judita Giparaitė Room 209, Department of English Philology, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, 39 Studentų St., Vilnius LT-08106, Lithuania, tel. +370 5 2757258, e-mail: linas.selmistraitis@leu.lt English Language of Instruction The English Language B2 level according to CEFR1 Required Prerequisites Suggested Academic Cycle Bachelor degree studies (from 3rd year of studies) or Year of Studies Autumn Semester 3 ECTS Credits 3 Contact Hours per Week Compulsory Compulsory/ Elective Lectures, seminars and individual consultations Methods of Teaching Examination Form of Assessment Title of the Study Program Title of the Module Faculty, Department Instructor Address Course Description The course helps the students to gain a deeper understanding of grammatical system of the English Language. The students will increase their general linguistic education and will to able to learn English more effectively. Topics of the course: 1. Language and its properties. 2. Grammatical and semantic categories. 3. Types of grammar. 4. Structural features of present-day English. 5. Principles of word classification. 6. The noun and its grammatical categories. 7. The adjective and its grammatical features. 8. The pronoun and its features. 9. The finite forms of the verb and their grammatical features. 10. The non-finite forms of the verb. 11. The sentence and its three levels. 12. The sentence as the contextualization of the clause. Readings 1. Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., Finegan, E. (1999). Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. 2. Biber D., Leech, G., Conrad S. (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman. 3. Greenbaum, S. (1994) An Introduction to English Grammar. Longman. 4. Valeika, L., Buitkienė J. (2003) An Introductory Course in Theoretical English Grammar. VPU, 2003. 5. Valeika, L., Buitkienė, J. (2006) Functional English Syntax. VPU. 1 Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.