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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours. Important contemporary perspectives for study of language in its social and cultural matrix. Topics include conversational organization, narrative, repair and grammatical organization, language in cultural settings, language socialization, and language impairment and institutional discourse. Focus on analysis of audio and video recordings of talk in variety of natural settings. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for former course 101. Exploration of skills and conditions involved in successful second and foreign language learning; application of this knowledge in development of framework for teaching second and foreign languages. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Exploration of learning via examination of second language acquisition. All normal children acquire language of their family and community (i.e., first language acquisition is ubiquitous). Success in second language acquisition is radically variable, and many learners, in spite of substantial opportunity and ability, achieve proficiencies that fall far below that of native speakers. Examination of interaction of emotion and cognition and nature of aptitude and motivation in learning. Primary vehicle for investigation to be autobiographies of second language learners. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Exploration of value and relevance of linguistic anthropological, ethnomethodological, sociocultural, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic approaches to study of immigration and second language acquisition. Readings from language learning memoir provide literary account of immigrant experience that illustrates intimate relationship between language and culture in second language learning. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Ethnographic approaches to recording and analyzing communicative events and practices in their sociocultural context, involving student- initiated fieldwork in community settings. Emphasis on hands-on activities within theoretical frameworks that consider language as social and cultural practice. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Tutorial, four hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study for undergraduate students who desire more advanced or specialized treatment of issues in applied linguistics and/or teaching English as second/foreign language beyond those covered in current course offerings. Scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required; see graduate student adviser. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Exploration of range of topics related to study of language and society, particularly how language affects social lives and how social organization affects use of language. Topics include different approaches to study of language in society (theories and research methodologies), issues regarding language and identity (such as socioeconomic status, race, gender, and situational identity), and issues concerning language and culture (such as cross-cultural misunderstanding and language socialization). Empirical and critical analysis of set of language data to be carried out as part of course project. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for former course M40 or M40W. Prior knowledge of foreign languages not required. Introduction to language from sociological perspective of gender. Use of research and examples in English and other languages to explore nature of male and female "genderlects" and gendered language,as reflected in lexicon, language behavior, phonetics and intonation, and language acquisition and linguistic change. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Introduction to language and social interaction, with specific emphasis on second language communication. Second or foreign language is considered highly important worldwide in personal, intellectual, and professional life. As important domain of research, second language interaction is widely studied by applied linguists, conversation analysts, and linguistic anthropologists with varying interests. Study of various interactional phenomena observed in second language communication. Discussion of relevant linguistic concepts such as turn-taking and overlap as resources for analyzing second language interaction. Examination in first half of course of how culture, ethnicity, and ownership of language are made relevant in everyday life by looking at second language interaction on various social occasions. Discussion of second language interaction in various pedagogical settings in second half of course. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Requisite: Linguistics 20. Survey of theory and practice in teaching second/foreign languages, including (1) past and present methods used to teach second/foreign languages, (2) current theory and practice underlying skills-based instruction and integrated approaches, (3) factors that affect second language acquisition and learning. Development of knowledge base in and rational basis for design, development, implementation, and evaluation of second/foreign language programs. Concurrently scheduled with course C210. P/NP or letter grading.
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