March 28,
Introduction to the course.
Introduction to editing ESL papers.
March 29,
Section on ESL Writing begins.
Bring Samples of ESL Writing to class for next three weeks.
Introduction to T-unit analysis.
Students begin marking T-units on ESL papers.
April 04,
Confirming T-unit analysis.
Introduction to Primary Trait Scoring.
Students begin to norm on the papers.
Editing
Students score "Electric Blanket" papers.
Editing
Confirming the scores for the "Electric Blanket" papers.
Students begin norming on the "Recreation Center" papers.
Students score the "Recreation Center" papers.
April 18,
Confirming the scores for the "Recreation Center" papers.
Introduction to errors.
The deletion of inflectional morphemes.
Editing
April 19,
Students mark deleted inflectional morphemes.
Editing
April 25,
Other types of syntactic errors in writing.
Students mark syntactic errors.
April 26,
First language acquisition.
Correlating Primary Trait Scoring with objective measures.
Concluding comments on the analysis of writing.
Section on ESL Writing ends.
May 03,
Midterm
May 09,
Comparing first and second language acquisition.
The critical period hypothesis.
May 10,
Social factors in L2 acquisition: Schema Theory
Communicative Competence.
Beginning of section on interlanguage phonology.
Contrastive analysis and language transfer.
Variation.
Papers on ESL writing are due.
May 24,
English syllable structure.
May 31,
Language universals.
Applying phonology.
End of section on interlanguage phonology.
June 06,
Theories of L2 acquisition.
June 07,
Final examination.
Science 2: Room 179, 5:00-7:00.
English 418 Course Syllabus