Week 1: 9/19-22 -
UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
- Topics: Course logistics - What
is language? - What is literacy? - What is the nature
of the population California schools serve? - What is a 'discourse'
and how does this idea relate to education? - Linguistic
vs. metalinguistic knowledge
Weeks 2 & 3: 9/26-29, 10/3-6 -
UNIT 2: SOUND
- Topics: What
are the sounds of English? - How are speech sounds produced and organized
in English and other languages? - Children's acquisition of a phonological
system: 1st and 2nd languages - Sound
and spelling: How spelling relates to speech - English spelling
vs. more-regular spelling systems - Literacy: Reading & pre-reading
skills: phonemic awareness; mastery of sound/symbol correspondences;
mastery of spelling rules & irregular spellings; decoding;
fluent, holistic reading - Phonics - Invented/developmental
spelling: Good or bad? - English learners
Weeks 4 & 5: 10/10-13 & 10/17-20
TEST #1: Weds., Oct.
12 (01); Thurs., Oct. 13 (02) - UNIT 2: SOUND & UNIT 3: WORDS
- Topics: Continue UNIT 2 as needed; How
words are organized in the mind - Word structure in English and
other languages - How
children learn words - Acquisition
of inflection and derivation - Differences
in inflection and derivation across languages and dialects - Effective
methods for vocabulary expansion
Weeks 6-8: 10/24-27; 10/31-11/3; 11/7-10 - UNIT 4: SENTENCES
TEST #2: Tues., Nov. 8 (02); Weds., Nov. 9 (01)
- Topics: Sentence
structure in English; how sentences function in
communication - How
children acquire sentence structure - Pre-school and school-years
sentence structure development - Reprise: Linguistic
vs. metalinguistic knowledge
Week 9: 11/14-17
UNIT 5: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
- Topics: Overview of the field of SLA: Major questions; research
methods and findings; factors influencing learning a new language
Weeks 10-11: 11/21-22; 11/28-12/1 - UNIT 6: DIVERSITY
-
CRITIQUE PAPERS FOR EARLY LITERACY AND VOCABULARY due Weds.,
11/30 (01) and Thurs., 12/1 (02) at class time.
- Topics: Different
languages vs. different dialects - Dialect
differences and social attitudes, including teacher attitudes towards
children - Diversity and grammar teaching for native speakers
of Standard English vs. for native speakers of nonstandard English dialects - Bilingual
education
- NOTE: Absences on 11/21 or
11/22 double count.