Materials_Spring 2015

A) Syllabus (BB)

B) Observation reports (BB): (1), (2), (3), (4)

C) ACTFL materials:

• Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century (5Cs) (BB)
• Proficiency Guidelines (BB)

D) Guidelines for exams: Midterm (BB); Final (BB)

E) Selected readings: (BB)

• Feb. 3: Lee & VanPatten (Chapter 1)
• Feb. 5: Richards ("Lesson phases"); Omaggio (Epilogue)
• Feb. 10: Lee & VanPatten (Chapter 4)
• Feb. 17: Blaz ("Differentiated instruction"); Reese ("How do you support every learner?")
• Feb. 19: Beaudrie, Ducar, & Potowski, “Heritage language teaching in the United States” (pp. 13-24); and “General sociolinguistic considerations” (pp. 26-44)
• Feb. 24: Fantini & Fantini (“Artifacts, Sociofacts, Mentifacts.  A sociocultural framework"); Galloway (“Bridges and Boundaries: Growing the Cross-Cultural Mind”); Lightbown & Spada (pp. 100-104)
• Feb. 26: Ellis (“Grammar Teaching– Practice or Consciousness-Raising?”) 
• March 3: Lightbown & Spada (pp. 77-96; and Chapter 5)
• March 5: Garrison & Ehringhaus (“Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom”); Crouse (“Going for 90% Plus: How to Stay in the Target Language”)
• March 10: Lightbown & Spada (pp. 96-100)
• March 12: Yoshii & Flaitz (“Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Retention: The Effect of Text and Picture Annotation Types”)
• March 17: SpanishPlans.org (“Connecting vocabulary to our students”); COERLL-UT Austin
• March 31: Omaggio (“Teaching Reading Comprehension”, pp. 203-210)  
• Apr. 2: Omaggio (“Sample Formats for Reading Comprehension”, pp. 210-226; “The role of Context in Comprehension and Learning”, pp. 139-162) 
• Apr. 14: Omaggio (Chapter 6)
• Apr. 16: Lightbown & Spada (Chapter 4, pp. 104-107)
• Apr. 21: Omaggio (“Listening Comprehension”, pp. 184-192; “Sample Formats for Listening Comprehension”, pp. 192-198)
• Apr. 28: Omaggio (“Differences between Spoken and Written Discourse”, pp. 180-181; “Becoming Proficient in Writing”, Chapter 7)