Sept. 13,

Introduction to the course.

• Read: Chpt. 1 and 11 in PLLT.

• Read: 75-82 in Learning to Edit.

Pretest.
Introduction to the project and paper.

Sept. 18,

Sources for writing term papers.
Section on ESL Writing begins.
Bring Samples of ESL Writing to class for next three weeks.
Introduction to T-unit analysis.

• Complete: Exercises 1A-2B in Learning to Edit.

Sept. 20,

Students mark T-units on ESL papers.

• Complete: Exercises 3A-4B in Learning to Edit.

Students choose topics for term papers.

Confirming T-unit analysis.

• Read handouts on primary trait scoring for the next class.

• Complete: Exercises 5A-6B in Learning to Edit.

• Complete: Exercises 7A-8B in Learning to Edit.

Students score "Electric Blanket" papers.

• Complete: Exercises 9A-10B in Learning to Edit.

Confirming the scores for the "Electric Blanket" papers.
Students begin norming on the "Recreation Center" papers.

Oct. 02,

Students score the "Recreation Center" papers.

• Complete: Exercises 11A-12B in Learning to Edit.

Confirming the scores for the "Recreation Center" papers.
Introduction to errors.
The deletion of inflectional morphemes.

• Complete: Exercises A-E Learning to Edit.

Oct. 06,

Students mark deleted inflectional morphemes.

• Complete: Exercises F-J in Learning to Edit.

Confirming the deletion of inflectional morphemes.
Errors with pronouns.
Students mark errors with pronouns.

• Complete: Exercises K-O Learning to Edit.

Other types of syntactic errors in writing.
Students mark syntactic errors.

• Complete: Exercises P-T in

Mechanical errors in writing.
Students mark mechanical errors.
Annotated bibliographies are due for the project.
Working bibliographies are due for the papers.

Oct. 16,

First language acquisition.

• Read: Chpt. 2 in PLLT

Correlating Primary Trait Scoring with objective measures.

Concluding comments on the analysis of writing.
Students turn in the results of the analysis.
Section on ESL Writing ends.

Oct. 20,

Midterm

Oct. 23,

Comparing first and second language acquisition.

• Read: Chpt. 3 in PLLT.

The critical period hypothesis.

• Movie about Genie

Social factors in L2 acquisition: Schema Theory

• Read: C hpt. 7 in PLLT.

Social factors in L2 acquisition.

• Read: Chpt. 6 in PLLT

Communicative Competence.

• Read: Chpt. 9 in PLLT.

Beginning of section on interlanguage phonology.

Contrastive analysis and language transfer.

• Read Chpt. 8 in PLLT.

Variation.

Nov. 08,

Variation.
English syllable structure.

Nov. 13,

English syllable structure.
Language universals.

Nov. 15,

Language universals.
Rough drafts of the term papers and projects are due.

Nov. 17,

Language universals.
Applying phonology.
End of section on interlanguage phonology.

Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.

• Start Reading: Additional Readings

Nov. 20,

Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.

• Read: Chpts. 4 and 5 in PLLT

Nov. 21,

Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.

• Finish Reading: Additional Readings

Dec. 01,

Final examination--8:00-10:30.