Week |
Date |
Topic |
 Assignment discussed
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1 |
7/5 |
Introductions
Overview of the course
What is linguistics?
Why should language
teachers study linguistics?
Major subfields of linguistics |
IL: Chapter 1
5min: Can you use language to solve a
crime?
What does language have to do with
national security?
How do you keep languages in a museum? |
2 |
7/10 |
Grammar Review Organization of presentations Chapter 10: Language in Society (first
section 407 - 437) Robin Lakoff video |
Longman Student Grammar IL: Chapter 10 (407 - 437 only)
5min: Are Dialects Dying in the US?
Do All Southerners Have the Same Dialect?
Is Pidgin English just Bad English? |
| 7/12 |
The Human Brain and Language (Abbe Spokane) |
IL: Chapter 2
5min: How many languages is it possible
for a person to speak? What don't we know about language? |
3 |
7/17 |
Morphology (Abbe Spokane) |
IL: Chapter 3
5min: What was the First Language? Is Sign Language Really a Language? |
| 7/19 |
Phonetics (Abbe Spokane) |
IL: Chapter 6
5min: How are the Sounds of Language
Made? What is Cajun and where did it come from? |
4 |
7/24 |
Phonology (Abbe Spokane) |
IL: Chapter 7
5min: Does Anybody Here Speak Klingon? |
7/26 |
Semantics (p. 186-192)/ Pragmatics (p.
199–207)/Academic Language (Abbe Spokane) |
IL: Chapter 5 (only p. 186-192 &
199-207)
5min: What does it take to be an
interpreter? |
5 |
7/31 |
Syntax Part 1 p. 115-147 Applications presentations/ Test Questions due |
IL: Chapter 4 p. 115-147
5min: Do all languages have the same
grammar? |
8/2 |
Syntax part 2 p. 147 - 162
Applications Presentations |
IL: Chapter 4 147 – 162
5min: #17 What’s the right way to put
words together? |
6 |
8/7 |
Grammar Test
Writing Systems (second part; p. 518-527)Linguistics test (Take home)
Applications Presentations |
Grammar text
IL: Chapter 12 (only 518-527)
5min: Is Japanese Worth Studying? Is Chinese the Most Difficult Language in
the World? |
8/9 |
Language Processing: Humans and Computer
Applications presentations |
IL: Chapter 9
5min: Machine Translation |
7 |
8/14 |
Wrap up, Applications presentations, Evaluations, Praxis practice |
5min: Nominate your favorite! |
