SYLLABUS: English 4800: Second Language Acquisition, Section 2, Spring, 2016

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1 SYLLABUS: English 4800: Second Language Acquisition, Section 2, Spring, 2016 TIME: Tuesday and Thursday: 2:00-3:15 C-104 (Bizzini Hall) INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Stephen Stryker OFFICE: Stryker Office: D-B Hall, 235-F, (209) Webpage: OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday: 3:30-5:00 Wed.: 2:00-4:00 Thursday: 3:30-5:45 Please call or first, or meet after class CALENDAR FOR TUESDAY-THURSDAY CLASS, SPRING 2016 Date Topics/Activities Related Readings Assignments Due Week 1 Jan 28 Introductions; course overview with packets Week 2 Continue Introduction; course overview with packets Feb 2-4 Intro. to linguistic terms H. D. Brown (text): Preface, Chapter 1 Week 3 Review of linguistic terms Brown, Chps. 1, 2 Feb 9-11 and preview, Key Concepts 1 Key Concepts #1, packet Week 4 Stryker: Portuguese lessons Brown Chps. 1-2 Summary-Response #1 Feb Make list of student lessons of Key Concepts 1 due Week 5 S and Rs #1 returned: Student lessons 1 and 2 Feb Discussion of Key Concepts 1 Week 6 Preview of Key Concepts 2 Brown Chps. 3, 4 Mar 1-3 Student lessons 3 and 4 Week 7 TPR, Natural Approach Brown Chps. 3, 4 S-R #2 due: Mar 8-10 Gardener s MI Student lessons 5 and 6

2 Week 8 Discussion of Key Concepts 2 Mar Discussion of Case Studies, with models Student lessons 7 and 8 Week 9 Overview of Key Concepts 3 Brown Chps. 5 and 6 Mar Student lessons 9 and 10 Spring break: Week of March 28 Week 10 Meyers Briggs; Brown Chps. 5 and 6 S-R 3 due: Apr 5-7 Brown s 10 Commandments Student lessons 11 and 12 Week 11 Discussion of Key Concepts 3 Brown Chps. 5 and 6 Apr Student lessons 13 and 14 Week 12 Overview of Key Concepts 4 Brown Chps Apr Student lesson 15 and 16 Week 13 Last Student lesson ( 4800 Jeopardy ) Apr BBC Film Brown Chps S-R 4 due: Early Case studies due (+10) Week 14 May 3-5 Overview of Key Concepts 4 and selection of Concepts for final Week 15 Student presentations on selected Key Concepts for final Case Studies Due May May 17 Final exam in class 2:00. Blue books required. Case studies returned.

3 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA) KEY CONCEPTS NUMBER ONE One of the main objectives of this course is to familiarize you with the theories, terminology, and key concepts of the field. Here is installment number one of the major concepts you should be able to define and describe. Some will be dealt with more in lecture or in the packet. In your summaries of these key concepts, please be sure to give examples where possible and suggest why this concept is of importance to SLA and learning and teaching. Pages in text and in packet are suggested below in most cases. Please do all the concepts that are listed under a given major topic. Look in the packet, the glossary of terms on pp at back of packet, and don t hesitate to Google any terms listed. H.D. Brown text (t), Chp. 1, Language learning and Teaching, and Stryker packet (pa) 1. Linguistic features of language: (t 6-7, lecture, and pa 28-32) morphology phonology syntax lexicon semantics discourse (t ) pragmatics (t ) and non-verbal communication (t , pa 83) 2. L-S-R-W: sequence of first language ( L1 ) development (pa 27, 27-A) 3. Psychological schools (text 9-15) structuralism/behaviorism (t 14) rationalism/cognitive psychology constructivism and Vygotsky s idea of Zone of Proximal Development (t 13) 4. The Grammar-Translation Method (GTM) (t 15-17, pa 51) (and Stryker s Portuguese lessons) 5. Approaches, methods, and techniques (t 18, pa 34, 35) 6. INTO, THROUGH, and BEYOND lesson plan (pa 17) 7. Enlightened Eclecticism (text 18, pa 33) Brown, Chp. 2: First Language Acquisition 8. Theories of Language Acquisition: behavioral approaches: tabula raza, operant conditioning (t 23-24; 87-91; pa 35-A) nativist approaches (t 26): the idea of language learning as error-making or hypothesistesting (t 28-32) functional approaches (t 30-33) 9. Chomsky s ideas: Language Acquisition Device (LAD) (t 26) (BBC Film) Universal Grammar (UG) (t 26-27) Deep structure vs. surface structure (pa 36-37) Comprehension-production (t 37 and 70) (pa 38) 10. Gouin's "Series Method" and Berlitz's "Direct Method" (t 47-48)

4 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION KEY CONCEPTS NUMBER TWO Brown, Chp. 3: Age and Acquisition 1. Critical Period Hypothesis (t 54-58, pa 53-B) (BBC film) 2. Some major neurological factors in language acquisition: lateralization (t 55 ) right-brain approaches (t 56, pa 58-61) accent (text 58 ) cognitive considerations (t 60 ) implicit vs explicit learning (t 66, 291) affective considerations (t 63-65, pa 42) inhibitions attitudes peer pressure linguistic considerations (t 66-69) coordinate vs compound bilinguals code-switching L1/L2 interference 3. TPR and The Natural Approach (t 73-74, pa 40-50) (BBC film and Stryker s lessons) Brown, Chp. 4: Human Learning 4. Ausubel: Meaningful Learning Theory (t83-88, pa 52) rote vs. meaningful learning systematic forgetting Glasser s view of learning (pa 53, 53-A) 5. Rogers: Humanistic Psychology (t 89-90) teacher as facilitator Paolo Freire s influence - empowerment Vygotsky (t 91-92) teacher-centered vs. student-centered classrooms (t 90) 6. Three language-learning strategies (t 94-96) transfer, interference, and overgeneralization 7. inductive reasoning - deductive reasoning (t 97, pa 54) 8. Gardner's concept of intelligence (t , pa 55-57) 9. The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) (t 104) (BBC film and Stryker s lessons)

5 KEY CONCEPTS NUMBER THREE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Brown, Chp. 5: What Good language learners do (Styles and Strategies) 1. learning process, styles, and strategies (t 111) 2. tolerance of ambiguity (or ambiguity tolerance) (t 111, ) 3. field dependent - field independent theories (t 114 ) 4. left brain - right brain theories (t 116, pa 58-61) 5. visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners (t 120 ) 6. Strategies ( ) and Strategy-Based Instruction (t 132) metacognitive, cognitive, and communicative (or socio-affective) 7. Brown s "Ten Commandments for Good Language Teaching" (t 135, pa 64-65) 8. Content-based Instruction (CBI) (in packet only: 62-63) Brown, Chp. 6: Personality Factors 9. Bloom's definition of "affective domain" (t , pa 66-67) 10. Self-esteem (t ; pa 68-69) global, situational, and task (t 155) 11. Inhibition (t 147) 12. Guiora s idea of Language Ego (t 148) 13. Risk-taking (t 149) 14. Anxiety (t 150 ) (BBC film) trait and state; facilitative, and debilitative 15. Empathy (t 153 ) 16. Extroversion introversion (t 154, pa 70-74) 17. Instrumental (extrinsic) - integrative (intrinsic) motivation (t , pa 75) 18. Meyers Briggs Types (t 156, pa 70-74)

6 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION KEY CONCEPTS NUMBER FOUR Brown, Chp. 7: Sociocultural Factors ( ) 1. Culture, cultural stereotypes, and attitudes acculturation: (t 187) the four stages of culture shock (t 187, pa 76-77) anomie (t 188) 2. collectivist societies vs. individualist societies (t 176, pa 75-A) 3. ESL and EFL (t 194 ) 4. Language and thought (t 42, 77, ) the Whorfian Hypothesis (t 183, pa 77-79) Brown, Chp. 8: Communicative Competence 5. communicative competence: the four types (t , pa 80) 6. James Cummins idea of BICS and CALP (t , packet 81-82) 7. Communicative Language Teaching (t ) Non-verbal ( ) Pragmatics (225-26) 8. Task-Based Instruction (t 237) Brown, Chp. 9: Cross-Linguistic Influence and Learner Language 9. error analysis (t ) 10. fossilization (t ) 11. error correction in the classroom (t , pa 84) cognitive feedback (t 265) affective feedback (t 265) classroom connection (t 268) Brown, Chp. 10: Toward a Theory of SLA 12. Krashen s Five Hypotheses (t , pa 40) 13. Enlightened Eclecticism (t 18, 287, pa 33, 33-A) and A Principled Approach (t 312) END OF SUMMARIES/RESPONSES Note: In Chapter 10 there is a visual by Brown ( ecology of language, t 302) that provides excellent overviews of the many factors involved in SLA. These visuals could be useful to you as you prepare for your case study, as they present lots of topics for you to consider in your interviews.