course for teacher-training students on language in middle and high schools

[Tom Roeper]

Shanley---

a number of people have used my book, The Prism of Grammar, for that
purpose and it has gone well.

Tom


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, <shanley at bu.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> One of my doctoral students is developing a "Language in Schools" course
> for teacher training students in Germany who are preparing to teach a wide
> range of content subjects at the middle school and high school level (ages
> 10-18; grades 5-12). We are eagerly looking for advice and suggestions from
> any of you who have taught similar courses or know of relevant material.
>
> These teacher training students are preparing to teach in mainstream
> classrooms, which will include children from immigrant backgrounds (e.g.
> Turkish, Russian, Greek) and possibly children with minor language-related
> impairments (e.g. language issues related to ADHD). The students typically
> know little if anything about language or linguistics, or the relevance of
> that for teaching.
>
> The learning objectives for the course are:
> a. to understand language as an object of study (e.g. arbitrary nature of
> language, areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.)
> b. to become familiar with language development phenomena typical of this
> age range (e.g. vocabulary, advanced syntactic structures, pragmatics)
> c. to understand the basics of bilingual and L2 development, especially
> for immigrant / heritage language children
> d. to understand how linguistic issues at all levels (e.g. case marking,
> relative clause structures, politeness conventions) can have an effect in
> classroom teaching and learning
> e. to identify potential linguistic problems in teaching material and
> learn to use or adapt those appropriately
>
> Any and all suggestions for content, materials (readings, examples), etc.
> are welcome. Although the course will be taught in German and oriented to
> the teaching context in Germany, information from other countries is very
> welcome and useful.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Shanley Allen.
>
>
>
>
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> Dekanin, FB Sozialwissenschaften / Chair, Department of Social Sciences
> Director, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group
> Center for Cognitive Science
> University of Kaiserslautern
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>
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Tom Roeper
Dept of Lingiustics
UMass South College
Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA
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