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Week 1
1st hr: Course Content and grading policy, 2nd hr: Language in Conflict,
“Oklahoma students start the day with an O-si-yo for Teacher”
3rd hr: Groups present their answers.
Week 2
WHAT'S LOST WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES? by Leyla Kokmen Printable version, Original version
Week 3
1st-2nd hr: Intro. Different Englishes; Performing Identity: a Stage for Multilingual English and Multicultural Englishness with vocabulary guide http://www.oocities.org/wentzao2004/culture/Week3_different_englishes.htm 3rd hr: “Mother Tongue”
Week 4
1st hr: QUIZ, Topic: Dialects, Standard English; “Nobody Mean More to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan” by June Jordan.
Week 5
1st hr: introduction, Language and Bicultural Identity; 2nd hr: The Misery of silence
Week 6
1st-2nd hr: My name, read and discuss article, class work; 3rd hr: “What’s in a Name?” Online discussion with invited guest speakers
Get a Chinese Name! Try this!
The Guide to Harry Potter name Etymology
Behind the Names The Etymology and History of First Names
Hebrew Name [many similarities with Chinese traditions]
Chinese Names [Yahoo search]
Week 7 Man made Language?
Week 8 Kinship Terminology, Continuation of Becoming American {PBS}
Week 9 MIDTERMS
Week 10
The Etymology of the International Insult
2nd hr: Images in the Media, A class divided [From PBS], 3rd hour: Discussion
with online guest speakers
Week 11
The Language of Discretion by Amy Tan, Continuation: A class divided
Week 12
1st hr: Colloquial language, In search of America: American Language
3rd hr: Group presentation, Do you speak American? Part 1
Week 13
1-2nd hr: Lecture on Spoken English and the effects of literacy and
Language and educational failure, 3rdhr: “Finding Forrester”
Movie Review
Do you speak American, part 2
Week 14 Finals
Second Semester Syllabus
