Applied Linguistics/Unit III

Desired Results
Essential Questions:

Evidence
Assessments include informal discussions (f2f and online) and academic prompts taken from current research.

Through-line Questions
How do mental processes and social influences impact second language acquisition (SLA)?

Evidence of Understanding (Assessment)

 * Socratic Seminar
 * Informal discussion
 * Academic prompts

Topics

 * Topic 1

Through-line Questions

 * How do mental processes and social influences impact second language acquisition (SLA)?
 * How does social interaction influences impact SLA?

Evidence of Understanding (Assessment)

 * Socratic Seminar
 * Informal discussion
 * Academic prompts

Topics

 * Anderson's ACT model (Anderson, 1983/1985)
 * Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998/2003)

Readings

 * Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course (Gass & Selinker, 2008): Chapter 1
 * Cognitive approaches to SLL (Chapter 4) (Mitchell & Myles, 2004)

Through-line Questions
How does what we know about L2 acquisition research and teaching influence our current and future perspectives?

Evidence of Understanding (Assessment)

 * Socratic Seminar
 * Informal discussion
 * Academic prompts

Topics

 * Socio-cultural theory

Readings

 * Second Language Learning Theories (Mitchell & Myles, 2004): Socio-cultural perspectives, pp. 193-222

Through-line Questions
How will my current experiences with teaching EFL and my own curiosity about issues I recognize in the EFL classroom merge into a worthwhile, research topic?

Evidence of Understanding (Assessment)

 * Socratic Seminar
 * Informal discussion
 * Academic prompts

Topics

 * Topic 1

Readings

 * How Languages are Learned (Lightbrown & Spada, 1999): Chapters 2-3