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Culture of the Latvian Language
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_029 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inta Urbanoviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge and skills of the Latvian Language acquired at secondary school. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to strengthen students' knowledge of the Latvian standard variety in oral and written form, to develop the ability to analyse language errors at different levels, and to deepen the skills of evaluating the use of standard language in different communicative situations. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introductory lecture. Principles of individual work. Culture of language as a branch of science. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Current issues of orthography. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The norms of word-formation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The norms of word inflexion and the use of different forms; deviations from them. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Syntax and the items of syntax. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Interference. Calques. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Lexicostylistic inaccuracies in text-formation. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Norms of punctuation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Scientific style texts, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Formal style texts, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Publicist style, characteristic features. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Stylistic analysis and literal editing of text segment, classification of mistakes. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | The student searches and analyzes texts that include errors from the norms of the standard variety, and studies theoretical resources describing the possibilities of preventing such errors. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) Individual work “Complecting and analysing of language errors”, 30% of the final assessment; 2) an evaluation of the quality of scientific text, 20% of the final assessment; 3) an evaluation of the quality of technical document, 20% of the final assessment; 4) a written exam (30% of the final assessment). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On completion of the course, the student will be able to: • use the current terminology related to issues of language culture; • know the most common errors of language culture; • manage most important resources of issues of Latvian language culture; • know functional styles of language and their typical units. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On completion of the course, the student will be able to: • identify, classify and analyse errors of standard language use; • classify and explain errors according to the theoretical resources; • debate on language errors; • edit texts of different styles according to the Latvian Standard norms. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On completion of the study course, the students will be able to develop texts of different functional types, to identify errors of various language levels, to correct and explain them using theoretical resources. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nītiņa, Daina, Grigorjevs, Juris (red.) (2015). Latviešu valodas gramatika. Rīga: LU Latviešu valodas institūts. | ||||||||
| 2 | Veisbergs, Andrejs (red.) (2013). Latviešu valoda. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Krūmiņa, Veronika, Skujiņa, Valentīna. (2002). Normatīvo aktu izstrādes rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Valsts Kanceleja. | ||||||||
| 2 | Skujiņa, Valentīna. (2014). Latviešu valoda lietišķajos rakstos. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC. | ||||||||
| 3 | Freimane, Inta (1993). Valodas kultūra teorētiskā skatījumā. Mācību līdzeklis. Rīga: Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.ailab.lv/ | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.letonika.lv/ | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.tezaurs.lv/ | ||||||||
| 4 | http://www.termini.gov.lv/ | ||||||||
