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| Structure of Irish Home Ling 184: Structure of Irish This course will be an integrated Irish language course for beginners, combining both instruction in the language itself (linguistic) and seminars about the current social, political and cultural state of the language (sociolinguistic). The course will be offered once each week in a single three-hour session. Students will be expected to engage in an additional two hours per week of autonomous learning, engaging with prescribed readings and linguistic self-assessment. The linguistic strand will provide a basis in elementary Irish for students with little or no previous exposure to the language and will focus primarily on written and oral skills and on gaining a basic understanding of the main dialects of the modern language. It will draw upon existing text and audio resources for Irish language learners (see 2 below), in particular the Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge (European Certificate in Irish) syllabus (www.teg.ie). The learning outcome will be a basic spoken and written competence in Irish for those with no previous knowledge of it. The sociolinguistic element of the course will focus on the socio-cultural and political context of the Irish language itself since the foundation of the Irish state in 1922. The learning outcome will be an understanding of and engagement with the minoritised state of Irish in its own nation-state and with the ongoing efforts to consolidate its position.
Prerequisite(s): None General Education Code: None
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