Sept. 13,
Introduction to the course.
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.
Sept. 20,
Students mark T-units on ESL papers.
Students choose topics for term papers.
Confirming T-unit analysis.
Students score "Electric Blanket" papers.
Confirming the scores for the "Electric Blanket" papers.
Students begin norming on the "Recreation Center" papers.
Oct. 02,
Students score the "Recreation Center" papers.
Confirming the scores for the "Recreation Center" papers.
Introduction to errors.
The deletion of inflectional morphemes.
Oct. 06,
Students mark deleted inflectional morphemes.
Confirming the deletion of inflectional morphemes.
Errors with pronouns.
Students mark errors with pronouns.
Other types of syntactic errors in writing.
Students mark syntactic errors.
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.
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.
The critical period hypothesis.
Social factors in L2 acquisition: Schema Theory
Social factors in L2 acquisition.
Communicative Competence.
Beginning of section on interlanguage phonology.
Contrastive analysis and language transfer.
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.
Nov. 20,
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.
Nov. 21,
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.
Dec. 01,
Final examination--8:00-10:30.