Reading List

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M.A. Comprehensive Exam Reading List
Spring 2015
TESOL AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
GENERAL WORKS:
Newmeyer, F. 1986. Linguistic Theory in America. NY: Academic Press.
O'Grady, W., Dobrovolsky, M., Aronoff, M., & Rees-Miller. 2005. Contemporary Linguistics.
5th Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Pinker, S. 1994. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: William
Morrow and Co.
SYNTAX:
Radford, A. 2009. English Sentence Structure. Cambridge University Press.
Haegeman, L. 1994. Introduction to Government & Binding Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
MORPHOLOGY:
Aronoff, M. and Fudeman, K. 2011. What is Morphology? Second Edition. Chichester, UK:
Wiley-Blackwell.
Booij, G. 2005. The Grammar of Words. New York: Oxford University Press.
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS:
Birner, B. 2013. Introduction to Pragmatics. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Davis, S. (Ed.). 1991. Pragmatics: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kearns, Kate. 2011. Semantics (2nd ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
TESOL AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
Carter, R. & Nunan, D. (Eds.). 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Richards, J. & Rodgers, T. 2001. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 2nd Edition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mitchell, R. & Myles, F. 2004. Second Language Learning Theories. 2nd Edition. Oxford:
Oxford University Press
PHONOLOGY:
Ladefoged, P. 2001. A Course in Phonetics. 4th Edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich.
Odden, D. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
VARIETIES OF ENGLISH:
Trudgill, P. 1995. Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society. 3rd Edition.
Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Wolfram, W. & Schilling-Estes, N. 2006. American English. London: Blackwell.
REFERENCE:
Matthews, P. 1998. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
THE M.A. EXAMINATION WILL BE ADMINISTERED ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
28, 2014 FROM 1:00-5:00 P.M. (RH 308)
Please see Susan Edwards for the form on which to declare your intention to sit for the exam. If
you plan to take the examination, the form must be submitted by January 20, 2015.
NOTE: You must be registered for at least one credit hour at the university in the semester
in which you take the comprehensive examination. Please contact the Graduate Secretary at
(815) 753-1608, if you have questions.
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