Syllabus
This
is a plan; it is subject to change. You will be notified of
changes via the Assignment Page; consult that page frequently for
updates.
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| Week
1: 3/28-30 |
- Introduction
to the Course / Introduction to Language: Purpose
and nature of language - Component subsystems ("levels" of language)
- texts as primary units of language
- Begin
English
Sounds: The
general mechanism of speech production - the phoneme inventory of
English - introduction to phonetic transcription - English syllable
structure & phonological processes - Typical pronunciation difficulties
of English learners - Phonology and literature - English spelling
- Literacy for children whose native language is not English
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| Week 2:
4/4-6 |
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| Week 3:
4/11-13 |
- English
Sounds
(cont'd)
- English
Words: What
words are for - word classes
('parts of speech') - word
strucuture in English
- the general nature of the English morphological system
- morphological analysis - kinds of morphemes and words - the
inflectional categories of English and how they are marked on English
words - word formation using derivational affixes or
other means - irregularity in English morphology - morphology &
punctuation rules: the apostrophe & hyphen - allomorphy (variation
in the pronunciation of morphemes) - lexical items and how the mental
lexicon is organized -typical
morphology
difficulties of English learners - morphology
and spelling errors - Facilitating
vocabulary expansion in language arts teaching
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| Week 4:
4/18-20 |
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| Week 5:
4/25-27 |
- The English verb phrase: Components of verb phrases: lexical
and auxiliary verbs - principal parts of verbs - modal auxiliaries
- form vs. function - tense and aspect - names and uses of tense/aspect
constructions
-
dialect variation in verb forms
- Midterm
Exam (Thurs., 4/27) Exam will be a one-hour test.
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| Week 6:
5/2-4 |
- The English verb phrase (cont'd)
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| Week 7:
5/9-11 |
- English
Grammar: Intuitive
ways of determining sentencehood - model exercises for teaching sentencehood
- end punctuation and common sentence-punctuation difficulties (fragments,
run-on sentences, comma splices)
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| Week 8:
5/16-18 |
- English
Grammar: Parsing
- subject & predicate - finding smaller sentence constituents
- phrase structure - identifying the grammatical roles of sentence
constituents - sentence types and their text functions
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| Week 9:
5/23-25 |
- Texts:
How
text topic and text-level needs such as topic maintenance, coherence,
and cohesion determine sentence type and choice of grammatical roles
for the constituents of a sentence - given vs. new information and
sentence structure - speech/writing differences and how they influence
student writing
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Week 10:
5/30-6/1
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- Variation
within English: Correctness
issues - how to treat nonstandard English in the classroom
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| Exam Wk.: 6/5-90 |
Final Exam: Friday, 6/9, 1:10-3 pm. Exam is a two-hour
comprehensive test. |
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