<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Shanley, have a look at my intro psycholinguistics book. It's got a basic practical intro to linguistics built in, since it's intended for teachers & clinicians.<div><a href="http://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_psl.htm">http://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_psl.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best, Lise</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 11, 2014, at 5:45 AM, <<a href="mailto:shanley@bu.edu">shanley@bu.edu</a>> <<a href="mailto:shanley@bu.edu">shanley@bu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear All,<br><br>One of my doctoral students is developing a "Language in Schools" <br>course for teacher training students in Germany who are preparing to <br>teach a wide range of content subjects at the middle school and high <br>school level (ages 10-18; grades 5-12). We are eagerly looking for <br>advice and suggestions from any of you who have taught similar courses <br>or know of relevant material.<br><br>These teacher training students are preparing to teach in mainstream <br>classrooms, which will include children from immigrant backgrounds <br>(e.g. Turkish, Russian, Greek) and possibly children with minor <br>language-related impairments (e.g. language issues related to ADHD). <br>The students typically know little if anything about language or <br>linguistics, or the relevance of that for teaching.<br><br>The learning objectives for the course are:<br>a. to understand language as an object of study (e.g. arbitrary nature <br>of language, areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.)<br>b. to become familiar with language development phenomena typical of <br>this age range (e.g. vocabulary, advanced syntactic structures, <br>pragmatics)<br>c. to understand the basics of bilingual and L2 development, especially <br>for immigrant / heritage language children<br>d. to understand how linguistic issues at all levels (e.g. case <br>marking, relative clause structures, politeness conventions) can have <br>an effect in classroom teaching and learning<br>e. to identify potential linguistic problems in teaching material and <br>learn to use or adapt those appropriately<br><br>Any and all suggestions for content, materials (readings, examples), <br>etc. are welcome. Although the course will be taught in German and <br>oriented to the teaching context in Germany, information from other <br>countries is very welcome and useful.<br><br>Thanks so much,<br>Shanley Allen.<br><br><br><br><br>********************************************************************************<br>Prof. Dr. Shanley E. M. Allen<br>Dekanin, FB Sozialwissenschaften / Chair, Department of Social Sciences<br>Director, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group<br>Center for Cognitive Science<br>University of Kaiserslautern<br>Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57/409<br>67663 Kaiserslautern<br>Germany<br><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:allen@sowi.uni-kl.de">allen@sowi.uni-kl.de</a><br>phone: +49-631-205-4136<br>fax: +49-631-205-5182<br>office: Building 57, Office 409<br>web: <a href="http://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/english-linguistics/home/">http://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/english-linguistics/home/</a><br>********************************************************************************<br><br><br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/20140311074551.semq8d5pcg8c0o8s%40www.bu.edu">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/20140311074551.semq8d5pcg8c0o8s%40www.bu.edu</a>.<br>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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