California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English Department
ENGL 391 Topics in Applied Linguistics
Linguistics and Language Arts K-8
Instructor: Dr. Johanna Rubba
Assignment Schedule
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Last updated 11/25/11
This page will be updated on a continuous
basis. Do assignments in the order listed. For the procedure of self-correction
for homework assignments, click
here.
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- Date assigned: Week 10 11/25
- Date(s) due: Week 11 11/28-12/1
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: Wheeler & Swords, "Codeswitching" (If you don't have
time to write answers to the Reading Questions, please try to read
them and come ready with responses to discuss in class)
- For W/R: Nieto, "Linguistic Diversity in Multicultural Classrooms"
- Written homework:
- For W/R: Reading
Questions for
both Wheeler & Swords and Nieto. (I will take the Wheeler & Swords
questions even though we will discuss the article on Monday.)
- For W/R: "Difficult Symbols
Practice" numbers 1-30 ONLY are required for W/R. If you'd
like extra credit, you can do all 60, and it will count as an extra-credit
homework assignment. If you do all 60, please mark "EXTRA CREDIT" at the
top of the page, so that the grader notices it.
- Reflective essay
- This is due Weds., 12/7, and will be submitted by e-mail. Full instructions
are here and on Bbd. They are #1 in the Course Materials folder.
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- Date assigned: Week 9 11/16
- Date(s) due: Week 10 11/21-22
- NOTE: No class Weds., 11/23 -- Travel Day.
- NOTE: An absence on Mon., 11/21 or Tues., 11/22 will double count.
- NOTE to early literacy and vocabulary paper writers: THE SOFT COPY OF
YOUR TERM PAPER IS DUE TUES., 11/22 BY 5 PM VIA E-MAIL. Review the draft
instructions posted in the Course Materials folder of our Bbd site. Reminder:
failure to submit the soft copy by 5 pm Tuesday will cost 25% of the paper
grade.
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: Review VanPatten & Benati.
- Written homework:
- ATTENTION SECTION 02 (T-R class): I have not been successful in
finding a substitute for 11/17. Next Tuesday, we will do two things:
- Discuss syntax acquisition (O'Grady & Cho, 3rd reading) and
- Discuss VanPatten & Benati Reading Questions.
- To prepare for the first of these, examine the document called "Child
Syntax," in the ASSIGNMENTS FOLDER of our Bbd site. Describe
how the data in that document fit the various stages of syntax acquisition
that O'Grady & Cho describe. Pay attention not just to word quantity,
but also to word order, what is left out that an adult would put in,
etc. Type up your observations to hand in. You will discuss your findings
with your classmates on Tuesday. Your document won't be graded as Reading
Questions are, but it will count as two ordinary homework assignments
(not extra credit).
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- Date assigned: Week 8 11/13
- Date(s) due: Week 9 11/14-17
- NOTE: Section 02 (T-R): I will not be here on Thursday, 11/17. You will either have a substitute teacher or work to do on your own.
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: Review "Syntax: Terms and Concepts: Clauses and Their Elements." The section "Kinds of clauses: Finite and nonfinite" is not required, but you may want to read it to deepen your understanding of English sentence structure.
- For W/R: O'Grady & Cho 3rd installment, "Syntactic Development" (no Reading Questions, but come to class prepared to analyze real examples of child syntax). Also, VanPatten and Benati, "Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition."
- Written homework:
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- Date assigned: Week 7 11/3
- Date(s) due: Week 8 11/7-10
- TEST #2 will be given during the first hour of class on Weds., 11/9 for section 01 and Tues., 11/8 for section 02. Return to the room for the second hour of class.
Note: There has been a request that students who remain in the room after finishing the test find something very quiet to do, and that students who leave the room after finishing settle far enough away so as not to be heard in the classroom (i. e., not clustered near the classroom door). We'll be very grateful for this!
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: "Syntax:
Terms & Concepts: Phrases." Pay special attention to the
first paragraph on this page, which provides a good explanation
of what phrases do for us in language. The section on complements
is not required, but you may want to read it if you want to deepen
your understanding of grammar a little bit.
- For W/R: "Syntax: Terms and Concepts: Clauses and Their Elements." The section "Kinds of clauses: Finite and nonfinite" is not required, but you may want to read it to deepen your understanding of English sentence structure.
- Written homework:
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- Date assigned: Week 6 10/27
- Date(s) due: Week 7 10/31-11/3
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: "Vocabulary in Context" by Ann
Fisher Kruse and "Word Frequency and the Importance of Context
in Vocabulary Learning" by John G. Honeyfield.
- For W/R: Newby "Phrases," pp. 37-49. There
are no Reading Questions for this reading. Also, "Syntax:
Terms & Concepts: Phrases." Pay special attention to the
first paragraph on this page, which provides a good explanation
of what phrases do for us in language. The section on complements
is not required, but you may want to read it if you want to deepen
your understanding of grammar a little bit. The exercises
on that page are NOT assigned.
- Written homework:
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- Date assigned: Week 5 10/19
- Date(s) due: Week 6 10/24-27
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T: We will work with Newby and "Parts
of Speech" (which were assigned for today). Add "An
overview of the English morphological system." (The
exercise at the bottom of the overview document is NOT assigned.)
- For W/R: "How Children Learn Words" by Miller & Gildea,
and "Vocabulary Development" and "Morphological
Development", Sections 3 & 4 of O'Grady & Cho. In
Reader.
- Written homework:
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- Date assigned: Week 4 10/13
- Date(s) due: Week 5 10/17-20
Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T 10/17-18: Fredericks "Phonemic Awareness."
- For W/R 10/19-20: Newby "Morphemes" and "Words," pp. 25-36.
Read also "Parts
of Speech."
- WARNING: On pp. 32-34, Newby gives "tests" to determine what
part of speech (noun, adjective, etc.) a word is. HIS TESTS
ARE INADEQUATE and at times INACCURATE. "Parts
of Speech" has the correct tests.
- Written homework:
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- Date assigned: Week 3 10/6
- Date(s) due: Week 4 10/10-13
- TEST #1 WEDS. 10/12 (01) & THURS. 10/13 (02)
- You will need one, SMALL exam booklet. You may write the test in
either pencil or pen, but if you use pen, please be clear about crossings-out
or answer changes.
- LEAVE THE COVER OF THE BOOKLET BLANK -- NO NAME,
ETC. -- until I instruct you to write your name, etc. on it.
- I HAVE MADE SOME SMALL CHANGES TO THE COURSE OBJECTIVES, REDUCING
WHAT WILL BE TESTED. Go
there now!
- Assignment:
- Reading:
- For M/T 10/10-11: Read "Phonology,
Phonics, and English Spelling." This document is on both
Bbd and my website. The exercises at the end of that document
are NOT assigned.
- For R/W 10/12-13 The brief conclusion to the phonetics/phonology
reading will be posted this weekend. There are no Reading Questions
for this.
- Written homework:
**Because of adjustments in enrollment, the division in the names has changed slightly. Now, the groups are A-H for both sections and J-Y for 01 and J-W for 02. I will make any necessary adjustments in grading and let the affected students know. No worries!
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- Date assigned: Week 2 9/28
- Date(s) due: Week 3 10/3-6
- Assignment:
- Reading: Remember to go
to the Course
Objectives before you read.
- For M/T 10/3-4: Rubba, "The Phonetics and Phonology of
English," part
one. More of this reading is underway, and will be assigned with
enough time for you to read it. There are no Reading Questions
for this reading.
- For R/W 10/5-6: O'Grady & Cho "First Language Acquisition," first
installment, on phonological development.
- Written homework:
- For M/T 10/3-4:
- From the Phonetics and Phonology reading,
do exercises 2 (p. 3) and 3 (p. 9). There is an Answer
Key for
these exercise on both the website and Bbd. On Bbd,
the Answer Key is a separate document. The link does not
work. Please use the self-correct
procedure -- read it carefully. Please mark 100% if you make
no errors.
- Also, begin familiarizing yourself
with phonetic symbols: do the exercise "From
Phonetic Symbols to English Spelling." A key is attached
to the exericise. Table 7, on p. 30 of the Phonetics and Phonology
reading, will be a great help.
- For R/W 10/5-6:
- Reading
Questions for O'Grady & Cho; names 01: J-Y and 02:
K-W will be graded.
- Exercises 4 (p. 18) and 5 (p. 19) of the Phonetics and Phonology
reading. NOTE: The page numbers for these in the Table
of Contents are incorrect.
- Notification to me of your project choices (publisher, skill, grade)
are due on W, 10/5 (both sections; notification will be by e-mail). Project
details will be up today. Click
here for instructions on how to notify me. Scroll down to the
Schedule. Please follow these instructions carefully, especially
regarding the subject line of your e-mail.
- Date assigned: Week 1 9/21
- Date(s) due: Week 2 9/26-29
- Assignment:
- Remember to go
to the Course
Objectives before you read.
- Reading: For M/T 9/26-27: Delpit, "Education in a Multicultural
Society." Answer and hand in the associated Reading
Questions. Names A-H (01) and A-I (02) will be graded (but remember
that all students hand in Reading Questions).
- For W/R 9/28-29
- I am revising a reading which I will make available to you on the
weekend. Watch for an e-mail telling you it has been posted to Bbd.
- WE WILL MEET IN THE LIBRARY THESE DAYS IN ORDER
FOR YOU TO "MEET" THE MATERIALS YOU WILL WORK WITH IN YOUR
PROJECTS. There
is nothing you have to do to prepare; just be at the library (ON
TIME, please) instead of our usual classroom. We will spend the first
hour with the materials and the second hour in a library classroom
continuing with our course topics. Meet in the Teacher Resource Center
near the windows (2nd floor library: take the stairs near Circulation,
hard left at top of stairs, hard right at water fountain, straight
towards windows). See the map in the Bbd Assignments folder.
- Date assigned: Week 1 9/19-22
- Date(s) due: Week 2 9/26-29
- Assignment:
- Before you do ANY course reading, go
to the Course
Objectives page to help you find what is important in
each reading. As you read, consult and answer the Reading
Questions that go with each reading (Newby and Gee). See "Notes" below
for information on how the Reading Questions will be handled. Note:
Reading Questions have no keys and are not to be self-corrected.
- By Wednesday, 9/21 (Section 01) or Thursday, 9/22 (Section
02):
read Gee, "What is Literacy" (in the course packet, and
on Blackboard)* and Newby p. 1-22.
Read in this order. Gee is a difficult reading; do your best, and
be prepared with questions if you have trouble with the concepts.
If you don't have your reader yet, Gee is available on the Blackboard
course site under "Course
Materials" > "Course
Readings." Answers to the Reading Questions for Newby and
Gee are due Weds., 9/21 (01) and Thurs., 9/22 (02). ALL students
must hand in answers to the questions.
- Gee: Section 01: Names A-H will be graded. Section 02: Names
A-I will be graded.
- Newby: Section 01: Names J-Y will be graded. Section 02:
Names K-W will be graded
*If you do not have your course
packet yet, use the copy on Blackboard.
- Notes:
- Reading
Questions will be handled as follows:
- Answer the questions
for every reading, to hand in. Type them and print them out,
please. I cannot accept these over e-mail. I also will not
accept handwritten responses.
- Half the class will be graded on
each reading (grading scale 1-10, 10 high). They will be
due as assigned in the Assignment Schedule. Since these questions
will be graded, I can't accept late Reading Question responses.
- All students
must hand their answers in. If you are not in the group getting
graded, you will receive a Pass or No Pass grade in your Homework
record, depending on whether or not you have answered all the
questions. For those not being graded, each Reading Question
response counts for two homework points.
- If you have
a lot of trouble with a question, you may write "I don't
understand this question" and leave it without an answer.
I won't expect to see this often, nor will I expect it to
happen more than once per assignment.
- I know this
is a lot of work, but it forces you to do and process the
readings, and will enable you to ask questions in class, if
you have not understood something. Also, I will call on people
in class for answers to the questions. This will be a springboard
for discussion and reduce the amount of time I have to spend
lecturing.