Course Number: ML100
Course Title: Introduction to Pohnpeian Language

 STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

Students will be able to:

1. describe the general nature and use of language.
2. name all the sounds employed in the Pohnpeian sound system.
3. describe the basic grammatical functions and interpretations of affixation, sentence structures, cliticization (enclitics), adverb
    usages in Pohnpeian, demonstratives modifiers, etc.
4. discriminate, by using verbs in various sentences, transitive verbs from intransitive verbs.
5. write or spell words, employing the approved standard spelling system.
6. develop (through written forms) new stories or expound on the existing vernacular reading (teaching and learning) materials.

Specific
Students will be able to:

 1. define human language or grammar and explain the definitions in all contexts used in defining human language.
 2. sound out all the sounds employed in the Pohnpeian sound system and further discriminate phonemes by way of classifying
     consonants, vowels, glides.
 3. demonstrate mastery by way of speaking and writing the Pohnpeian alphabetic order.
 4. explain through verbal and written means how usage of prefixes, suffixes, etc. influences the change of grammatical properties of
     verbs, nouns, and adjectives in the language.
 5. differentiate transitive sentences from intransitive sentences by describing structures and properties of transitive and intransitive
     sentences.
 6. describe the different types of demonstrative modifiers and their grammatical functions in Pohnpeian language.
 7. develop and edit (for standard spelling purposes) selected Pohnpeian stories for classroom use.
 8. describe Pohnpeian interrogatives sentences.
 9. use correct numeral classifiers with appropriate objects or things they employed to counting.
10. describe the differences between suffixes and enclitics.