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Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

Syllabus for the Spring Semester of 2005 Academic Year

 

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This course is designed for advanced EFL [English as a Foreign Language] students. The pedagogy takes the form of classroom activities in which students discuss, read, and write together within a thematic context. The students enrolled in this class are expected to acquire an eagerness to participate in their own learning; increase their awareness of their individual responsibility in the communication process, and most importantly, to understand the essential role of their own insights and experience in responding to sociolinguistic issues.

 

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To facilitate a critical thinking approach that emphasizes interactions across boundaries based on ethnicity, national origin, language communities, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and other cultural identities.

Reading, Writing, Listening, and speaking skills will be taught and enhanced as we go through the lessons.

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presentations: 25% (15-20 minutes)

Mid-term exam: 25%

Final exam: 30%

Participation, Attendance & Quizzes: 20%

¥|¡B        ½Ò°ó­n¨D¡]Course Requirement¡® Attendance Policies¡^

1.           Students are required to participate actively in class.

2.           Cell phones and beepers should be turned off in class.

3.           Being late for more than 15 minutes will be considered an absence.

4.           Absences are only allowed if doctors¡¦ written notes are provided.

5.           More than three unexcused absences will result in failure in the course.

There will be no make-up presentations.

 

¤­¡B        ±Ð¬ì®Ñ¡]Textbooks¡^

The Multicultural Workshop, Book 3 by Linda Lonon Blanton & Linda Lee, 1995, US: Heinle.

 

¤»¡B        «ü©w°Ñ¦Ò®Ñ¥Ø©Îºô§}¡]References¡^

Language and Culture by Claire Kramsch, 2001, Oxford

Encountering Cultures in a Changing World, 2nd Ed, Richard Holeton, 1995, Blaire Press

Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Suzanne Romaine, 1994, Oxford

Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Peter Trudgill,  Penguin, 1983

Various online resources

 


 

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Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

Syllabus for the Spring Semester of 2005 Academic Year

 

 

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Week 1

2/23 B 3hr

2/25 A 1hr

1st hr: Course Content and grading policy;

 

Reading for Understanding

 

2nd hr: Language in Conflict, ¡§Oklahoma students start the day with an O-si-yo for Teacher¡¨

3rd hr: Groups present their answers. Every member must talk. Submit discussion paper.

Q&A

 

Lecture/discussion

 

Groups answer questions provided in pages 152-153

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

Divide the class in 8 groups.

Reading, Writing, Listening, and speaking skills will be taught and enhanced as we go through the lessons

Week 2

3/1 & 3/4 A

3/2 B

Reading Beyond Understanding

 

WHAT'S LOST WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES? by Leyla Kokmen

 

Group members to present summary and lead Q&A.

Discussion with online guest speakers

 

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

Answer the reading comprehension questions on the handout

members to lead the Q&A

Week 3

3/8 & 3/11 A

3/9 B

 

1st-2nd hr: Intro. Different Englishes

 

3rd hr: ¡§Mother Tongue¡¨, Groups present their answers. Every member must talk. Submit discussion paper.

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

Groups answer questions provided in pages, p 184-185

 

Read: Performing Identity [handout]

 

Listening

 

Listen to an online discussion and listen and note how people speak English in different ways. Answer the questions on the handout.

 

Groups will be called at random.

Week 4

3/15 & 3/18 A

3/16 B

1st hr: QUIZ

 

Topic: Dialects, Standard English

 ¡§Nobody Mean More to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan¡¨ by June Jordan.

 

Group members to present summary and lead Q&A.

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

 

Discussion with online guest speakers

 

 

Writing: an article review

 

QUIZ 1

 

Group 1  members to lead Q&A

Week 5

3/22 & 3/25 a

3/23 B

1st hr: introduction, Language and Bicultural Identity

2nd hr: The Misery of silence

Groups present their answers. Every member must talk. Submit discussion paper.

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

Groups answer questions provided in pages, p 173-175.

 

 

Writing Summary [summarizing an article]

Group 2

 

Groups will be called at random.

Week 6

3/29 & 4/1 A

3/30 B

1st hr: QUIZ-2nd hr: My name, read and discuss article, class work

3rd hr: ¡§What¡¦s in a Name?¡¨ Online discussion with invited guest speakers

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

 

Group work, discussion, Discussion with online guest speakers

 

1st hr: Quiz 2

 

Group3 members to lead Q&A

Week 7

4/5 Holiday 4/8 A

4/6 B

Man made Language?

 

Lecture discussion

 

 

 

Week 8

4/12 & 4/15 A

4/13 B

Kinship Terminology

 

Continuation of Becoming American {PBS}

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

Compare Chinese kinship terminology with western or other nationalities

Group 4 members to lead Q&A

Week 9

4/19 A

4/20B

MIDTERMS

Written exam

Read: MONEY, MEDIA &
The Asian American Image

 

Week 10

4/26 & 4/29 A

4/27B

The Etymology of the International Insult

2nd hr: Images in the Media

 

A class divided [From PBS]

3rd hour: Discussion with online guest speakers

 

Spend a week critically examining the media around you (television, movies, music, magazines, the internet). How are ethnic groups represented in the media? You need to write a 3-5 page analysis of your finding. You should include a bibliography with a listing of all forms of media which you have examined.

 

Group 5 members to lead Q&A

Week 11

5/3 & 5/5 A

5/4 B

 

The Language of Discretion by Amy tan

Does Tan, as a multi-cultured person, provide an example of ways to deal with the problems of cross-cultural communication? How, specifically? Could her experiences and ideas be used by other people to help break down barriers between cultures?

Continuation: A class divided

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

 

QUIZ 3

Group 6 members to lead Q&A

Week 12

5/10 & 5/13 A

5/11 B

1st hr: Colloquial language

In search of America: American Language

3rd hr: Group presentation

Do you speak American? Part 1

Individual and group

Assessment: Rubric

 

Discussion with online guest speakers

 

See: American Slanguages

Group 7 members to lead Q&A

Week 13

5/17 & 5/19

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

Assessment: Rubric

 

3rd hr: Group 8 members to lead Q&A

Week 14

5/24 & 5/27A

5/25 B

FINALS

Written exam