Table of Specifications

1. TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS
History of the English Language
Learning Outcomes
No.
of
Hours
%
of
Hours
Remembering
Understanding
Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Creation
Points
%
of
Items
Item
Placement
Chapter VI- The Middle English Period
Chapter VII- The Early Modern English Period: Society, Spellings,
and Sounds
1. understood the history of Old English, Middle English and Present-
Day English;
2. demonstrated an understanding of the interdisciplinary approaches
that are foundational to the study of the Middle Ages;
3. understood the significant changes of the Middle English to its
vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography;
4. examined and interpreted the historical, cultural, and political aspects
of language use from an informed linguistic perspective;
5. used appropriate scholarly resources to research and discuss language
acquisition, dialect, and semantic change in English; and
6. understood and analyzed the subject of language acquisition and
development
14 54%
3, 5, 7, 9,
10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 16,
17, 18, 19
2, 4, 6,
8, 15
20, 21,
22, 23,
24, 25,
26, 27
1 27 20
%
1-27
Chapter VIII- Late Modern English
1. identified and understood the key events in the Late Modern Period;
2. distinguished the national differences in word; and
understood the significant changes of the Late Modern English to its
vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography.
6
23%
31, 32, 33,
34, 37, 38,
39
35 28, 29,
30
36
12 20
%
28-39
Chapter IX- New Words from Old
1. examined the five processes by which they do so: creating,
combining, shortening, blending, and shifting the grammatical uses of
old words.
6
23%
41, 49, 50 47 40, 42,
43, 44,
45, 46,
48 11 20
%
40-50
Total 26
hrs
100
%
23 7 11 9 50 100
%
50