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

[Lise Menn]

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.
http://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication_psl.htm

Best, Lise

On Mar 11, 2014, at 5:45 AM, <shanley at bu.edu<mailto:shanley at bu.edu>> <shanley at bu.edu<mailto: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
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57/409
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

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