language and gender teaching resources

SEMAHAT ISIL ACIKALIN iacikali at ANADOLU.EDU.TR
Wed Mar 31 14:08:12 UTC 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:03:30 -0600
 Amy L Sheldon <asheldon at TC.UMN.EDU> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Emma Moore wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've been invited to submit a bid to the university library to
> acquire
> > resources for the Language and Gender course I'm putting together.
> I'm
> > going to be asking for the usual books etc., but I wondered if
> anyone
> > could recommend any additional resources that they have found
> helpful in
> > their teaching. In particular, I think it might be helpful to have
> some
> > corpora for students to use but am unsure (a) what (if anything) is
> > available and (b) how practical it is for students to use such a
> > resource. Can anyone advise on teaching resources?
>
> 	It's an eyeopener for students to record themselves and analyze
> that, in relation to a reading. See if their data replicates or not.
> I
> have them record themselves in conversation with someone they know
> and
> compare results using one of the categories that Pamela Fishman
> looked at
> in her couples study: "Interaction: The work women do" in Thorne,
> Kramarae
> and Henley.
> 	It would be great if there were classroom data available.  I have
> students observe and report on one of their classes, after we read a
> piece
> by Joan Swann about asymmetrical treatment of females and males in
> classrooms ("Talk control..." in the Coates, _Language and Gender, a
> reader_).
> Amy Sheldon
>
>
> 	> Many thanks,
> > Emma.
> >
> > *************************************************************
> > Emma Moore
> > Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
> > Department of English Language and Linguistics
> > University of Sheffield
> > UK
> >
> > Phone: +44 (0)114 222 0232
> > Fax: +44 (0)114 276 8251
> > E-mail: e.moore at sheffield.ac.uk
> > ************************************************************
> >
> >
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    Dear Emma,
    I have studied linguistic gender differences of teachers in
classroom. I don't  know if it will help you.The studies are published
in Turkic Languages,edited by Lars Johanson.The numbers: 7(2003)1 and
5(2001)2 Harrassowitz Verlag.Wiesbaden.

Isil Acikalin
Anadolu University/Turkey



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