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Course Calendar:
Note: MCLTH = Textbook, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen
Work to be turned in is highlighted in yellow.
In-class activity
Week 1 8/23/04
Course introduction.
Assignment for next class:
Read MCLTH chapter 1, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” question #3.
The “Atlas complex”
Overview: the Audiolingual Method
(ALM) vs. Communicative Language
Teaching (CLT).
Read Reagan & Osborn (in library). Answer
question #1 from first set of questions, and
questions #2, #5 from second set.
Bring copy of chapter 2 from O’Maggio Hadley
(in library).
Sign up for FL Teach
(http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/#subscribing).
Once you get a confirmation message, set your
account to receive the digest – see
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/Flt-opt.html for
instructions.
Week 2 8/30/03
Briefly review MCLTH Chapter 1, Atlas
complex & overview of SLA.
Discuss Reagan & Osborne, the role of FL
education in the U.S.
Overview: theories of SLA (O’Maggio
Hadley).
Read MCLTH chapter 2, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” question #2.
Read MCLTH chapter 3, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” question #1.
Bring (a) French or Spanish Standards for Foreign
Language Learning in the 21st Century, on reserve
in the library, and (b) IL state foreign language
standards (www.olce.org/pages/home/
world_language/teacher_resources), pages 4-5 &
7).
Bring high school FL textbook to class.
Week 3
9/6/04
No class (Labor day)
[Continue homework assignment from last week.]
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Week 4
2
9/13/04
Discuss MCLTH chapters 2 (input) and 3
(ALM drills vs. communicative tasks).
Read MCLTH chapter 6, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” questions #2
and #3.
More examples: ALM drills vs. CLT.
Work with ACTFL and state standards.
Analyze 1st and 2nd year textbooks
according to standards.
Week 5
Finish Reflection #1 (based on FL Teach).
9/20/04
Discuss MCLTH chapter 6, traditional
beliefs vs. input processing.
Share Reflection #1 (FL Teach) with
classmates before handing it in today.
Read MCLTH chapter 7, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” question #3.
Read MCLTH Appendix (pp. 277-282) for an
example of a processing instruction lesson.
Make sure you have a UIC observation arranged.
Demonstration: Structured input activities.
Week 6
9/27/04
Discuss MCLTH chapter 7, structured input
& processing instruction.
In groups of four (4), create a series of structured
input activities around a grammar point. Review
sample processing instruction lesson in MCLTH
Appendix (pp. 277-282).
As a class and then in groups of four, create
structured input activities.
Read MCLTH chapter 8, email responses to
instructor. Prepare “Think about it” questions #2
Observe UIC instructor this week or next
and #3.
Week 7
10/4/04
Study for midterm exam.
Discuss MCLTH chapter 8, structured
output.
Several groups present their structured
input activities.
Last week to observe a UIC instructor
Week 8
10/11/04
Read MCLTH chapter 4, email responses. Prepare
“Think about it” question #2.
MIDTERM EXAM (90 minutes)
Prepare written observations of UIC instructor.
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Week 9
10/18/04
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Read MCLTH chapter 5, email responses. Prepare
“Think about it” question #1.
Discuss MCLTH chapter 4, proficiency
goals (which is a good way to conceive of a Finish Reflection #2.
course curriculum).
Continue working on final portfolio. Do not leave
Discuss & hand in written observation of
this until the last minute!
UIC instructor.
Week 10
10/25/04
Hand in Reflection #2 (ethics technology)
Discuss MCLTH chapter 5, oral testing.
Week 11
Read MCLTH chapter 9, email responses. Prepare
“Think about it” questions #2 and #3.
Finish written observations of HS instructor (if you
are currently taking Ed 330 or 432).
11/1/04
Discuss MCLTH chapter 9, testing
grammar.
Read MCLTH chapter 10, email responses. Prepare
“Think about it” questions #1 and #3.
Finish Reflection #3.
Hand in written observations of HS
instructor (if you are currently taking Ed
330 or 432).
Week 12
11/8/04
Discuss MCLTH chapter 10, listening
comprehension.
Hand in Reflection #3 (professional
language and dress)
Read Shrum & Glisan chapter 12 (library), using
technology in the FL classroom.
Continue working on activities portfolio. You
have just three weeks left!
60 minutes: Webquests. After break, class
moves to SEL computer lab to be
announced.
Week 13
11/15/04
Bring high school FL textbook to class.
Discuss Shrum & Glisan chapter 12, using
technology in the FL classroom.
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Finish Reflection #4.
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Week 14
4
11/22/04
Hand in Reflection #4 (philosophy of
language teaching).
You should be close to finished with your
portfolio.
Look at HS textbooks, discuss how to
transform more “traditional” activities into
communicative ones, and grammar-based
goals into thematic ones, and not stay up
until 2:00 am every night rewriting the
textbook.
Week 15
11/29/04
Closing activities.
Portfolio due (all activities posted to TaskStream)
by Friday, December 3, 2004 at 5:00 pm.