Bilingual Education and Teaching Group Contract
Faculty: Evelia Romano Thuesen. Sem. 3113, ext. # 6434, e-mail: romanoe
Library Faculty: Ernestine Kimbro. Lib. 2300L, ext. # 6258, e-mail: kimbroe
Secretary: Julie Douglas. Sem. 3127, ext # 6550/5427, e-mail: douglasj
Recommended readings (supplementary)
During fall quarter we will explore several theoretical issues related to, and preparatory for, the study of bilingual education and teaching in the following order: first and second language acquisition, the bilingual individual and the bilingual community, cultural and social issues related to bilingualism, language diversity and multiculturalism, and an introduction to bilingual education and the politics of bilingualism. A three-hour workshop each week will be devoted to the study of second language teaching, with particular consideration of different theories and methodologies.
Schedule: A typical week
Day
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Place
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L. 2126
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AM: L 2205/'2204
PM: L. 2458 |
L 2458
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AM
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9:30 - 12:00
Lecture |
10:00-1:00 Workshop |
9:00 - 12:00 Seminar |
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PM |
1:00-3:00 Lecture |
12:30-2:30 Spanish |
1:00-2:30 Spanish |
A four-credit Spanish course will be taught on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. For students interested in this course, please respond the questionnaire for our first meeting on Tuesday.Students who are not interested in taking this course, should enroll separately in our program for 12 credits and in another course for four credits.
Seminar
Students will be in charge of presenting the week's readings and leading the discussion around principal concepts every Thursday. Students in charge of presentations are expected to research the theme for achieving a thorough understanding of the material and providing more material for discussion. Seminars will focus on the analysis of the readings, enriched by the information provided in lectures and seminar discussion.
Seminar presentations and participation in discussion are important requirements for receiving full credit.
Field trips
During Fall quarter we will visit some local examples of bilingual programs. The participation in the field trips is compulsory and students must make all necessary arrangements to assure their attendance to these events.
Assignments
Papers : One short response paper to readings and lectures will be required during this quarter. The due date for the first paper will be Thursday of fourth week.
Midterm take-home exam :At the beginning of sixth week, students will receive the exam. It will require substantial library research of material beyond that covered in class in order to be completed satisfactorily. The exam's due date will be Tuesday of the seventh week and late exams will not be accepted or corrected.
Presentation: Each student will choose a subject for a final presentation by the fourth week of the quarter. They will turn in a preliminary description and bibliography in the ninth week. At the end of Fall quarter, students will give an interim oral report on their research which will continue through Winter quarter and conclude in a research paper and oral presentation.
Workshop Portfolio: Students will keep an organized portfolio containing all activities and assignments completed for the workshop on teaching language methodology. Students will turn their portfolios at the end of week nine for evaluation.
Deadlines are sacred and no exemptions will be made under any circumstance.
Credit, evaluation and conferences
All the activities mentioned above are absolutely required in order to receive full credit. Incomplete assignments and work performed at a poor level will not be awarded credit. BET is an upper division program, however upper division credit will only be awarded to students whose work demonstrates learning at an advanced level. Credits will be awarded in linguistics (language acquisition), bilingual education theory and ESL/ foreign language teaching methodology. I will schedule individual conferences with students during week six to discuss their performance and final projects. Evaluations and conferences at the end of fall quarter will be optional for continuing students.
If students have problems with any aspect of the program's contents or activities, it is their responsibility to contact the faculty immediately in order to face difficulties squarely instead of letting them worsen.
Acton, William R. and Judith Walker de Felix. "Acculturation and Mind." Culture Bound. Bridging the cultural gap in language teaching. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 20-32.
Bialystok, Ellen, and Kenji Hakuta. In Other Words. The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Baron, Naomi. Growing Up with Language. How Children Learn to Talk. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc, 1992.
Brown, Douglas H. "Learning a Second Culture". Culture Bound. Bridging the cultural gap in language teaching. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 33-48.
Celce-Murcia, Marianne, ed. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. 2ed. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 2001.
Corson, David. Language Diversity and Education. New Hersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2001
Fishman, Joshua A. "Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena." Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students in the United States. Eds. Joshua Fishman and Gary D. Keller. New York: Teachers College Press, 1982. 23-37.
Grosjean, François. Life in two languages. An Introduction to Bilingualism. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Gutiérrez, Fernando José. "Bicultural Personality Development: a Process Model." Advances in Bilingual Education Research. Eds. Eugene García and Raymond V. Padilla. Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1985. 96-124.
Helms, Janet E. A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person. Kansas: Content Communications, 1992.
Katchan, Olga. "Early Bilingualism: Friend or Foe." Knowledge and Language. Eds. I. Kurcz, G.W. Shugar and J.H. Danks. Advances in Psychology 39. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986. 667-690.
McKay, Sandra and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. New Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge, New York: cambridge Universtiy Press, 2000.
Miller Cleary, Linda and Thomas D. Peacock. Collected Wisdom. American Indian Education. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.(selection)
Ovando, Carlos J. and Virginia Collier. Bilingual and ESL Classrooms. Teaching in Multicultural Contexts. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1998.
Porter, Rosalie Pedalino. Forked Tongue. The Politics of Bilingual Education. 2 ed. New Brunswick & London: Transaction Publishers, 1996.
Rains, Frances. "To Greet the Dawn with Open Eyes. American Indians, White Priviledge and the Power of Residual Guilt in the Social Studies." Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the the Social Studies. Eds. Ladson-Billings. Information Age Publishing, Forthcoming.
Reyhner, Jon. "American Indian languages and United States language policy". The State of Minority Languages. Eds. W. Fase,K. Jaspaert and S. Kroon. Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1995.
Shrum. Judith L. and Eileen W. Glisan. Teachers Handbook. Contextualized Language Instruction. 2nd ed. United States: Heinle & Heinle, 2000.
Recommended readings (supplementary)
Language Acquisition (Weeks 1-3)
Beebe, Leslie, ed. Issues in Second Language Acquisition. Multiple Perspectives. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 1988.
Bloom, Paul, ed. Language Acquisition. Core Readings. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1994.
Freeman, David and Yvonne Freeman. Between Worlds. Access to Second Language Acquisition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.
Krashen, Stephen. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981.
Lyon, Jean. Becoming Bilingual. Language Acquisition in a Bilingual Community. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1996
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (Weeks 3-5 and 7-10)
August, Diane and Kenji Hakuta, eds. Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children. A Research Agenda. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997
Baker, Collin. Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1988.
Bilingual Education Office. Beyond Language: social and cultural factors in schooling language minority students. Los Angeles: Evaluation, Dissemination and Assessment Center, California State University, 1986.
Brisk, María Estela. Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Pub., 1998.
Faltis, Christian J. and Sarah J. Hudelson. Bilingual Education in Elementary and Secondary School Communities. Toward Understanding and Caring. Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.
Fishman, Joshua and Gary Keller. Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students in the United States. New York: Teachers College Press, 1982.
Lee, Stacey. Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype. Listening to Asian American Youth. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Reyhner, Jon, ed. Teaching Indigenous Languages. Flagstaff : Northern Arizona University, Center for Excellence in Education, 1997.
---, ed. Teaching the Indian child: a bilingual / multicultural approach. 2nd ed. Billings, MT : Eastern Montana College, c1988.
Young, Robert W. "English as a Second Language for Navajos." Teaching the Bilingual. New Methods and Old Traditions. Ed. Frank Pialorsi. Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1974. 127-137.
Minority Language Communities and Education (Weeks 4-7)
Ambert, Alba N. and María D. Álvarez. Puerto Rican Children on the Mainland. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Garland, 1992. (Part I, II and III)
Dupris, Joseph C. "The National Impact of Multicultural Education: A Renaissance of Native American Indian Culture through Tribal Self-Determination and Indian Control of Indian Education." Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Bilingual Bicultural Education, Seattle, 4-9 May 1979. Ed. Phillip C. Gonzales. Virginia: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1981. 69-78.
Carger, Chris Liska. Of Borders and Dreams: a Mexican American Experience of Urban Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996..
Ford, Alexis, Festus E. Obiakor, and James M. Pattton, eds. Effective Education of African American Exceptional Learners. New Perspectives. Austin, Texas: Pro-Ed, 1995. Chapter 4.
Miller Cleary, Linda and Thomas D. Peacock. Collected Wisdom. American Indian Education. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998. Chapter 5.
McKay, Sandra and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. Language Diversity, Problem or Resource? Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 1988.
Nakanishi, Don T. and Tina Yamano Nishida. The Asian American Educational Experience. A Source Book for Teachers and Students. New York & London: Routledge, 1995. Part II and III.
Reyhner, Jon, ed. Teaching Indigenous Languages. Flagstaff : Northern Arizona University, Center for Excellence in Education, 1997.
---, ed. Teaching American Indian Students. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. Part I "Multicultural Education", and other selected chapters.
Rodríguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory. The Education of Richard Rodríguez. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.
---. An Argument with My Mexican Father. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Sedillo López, Antoinette, ed. Latino Language and Education. New York & London: Garland, 1995.
Spring, Joel. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
More on Language and Teaching ( Weeks 7-10)
McKay, Sandra L. and Nancy Hornberger, eds. Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Omaggio, Alice. Teaching Language in Context. 2 ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle,1993.
Ramírez, Arnulfo. Creating Contexts for Second Language Acquisition. Theory and Methods. New York: Longman Pub., 1995.
September 29
September 30
October 1
- Workshop: Teaching a second or foreign language: Introduction. Questionnaire.
October 2
- Seminar: Barons Growing Up with Language. How Children Learn to Talk. Questionnaire
Week 2
October 6
October 7
- Ernestine Kimbro: Introduction to library resources and research methodologies
October 8
October 9
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Week 3
October 13
- Video: Brain and Language.
- Second Language Acquisition: Internal and external factors.
October 14
October 15
- Discussion of studentsinterests and possibilities to work in the community.
October 16
- Seminar: Grosjeans Life with Two Languages. An Introduction to Bilingualism: Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
- Katchan, Olga. "Early Bilingualism: Friend or Foe."
- Leaders: Cassandra Close, Evan Ragland and Lauren Nicole Trantham. Guide for Discussion.
Week 4
October 20
- Lecture: The Bilingual Speech Community.
October 21
- Lecture:Guest Lecture by Dr. Leticia Nieto: "Bilingualism and Biculturalism: A Psychological Perspective."
October 22
- Discussion: TESFL: 67-101. TH: Chapter 6. Activities. Guest Speaker, Joe Alonso (Capital High School): Spanish as a Foreign and Second Language.
October 23
Response paper I due on Thursday October 23, along with a brief paragraph stating the subjects for final presentations
Week 5
October 27
October 28
- Lecture: Bilingualism among Hispanics. Video.
October 29
October 30
- Seminar McKay and Wong's New Immigrants in the United States.
- Leaders: Sean Maung, Bacchus Taylor and Nicole Laib. Guide for discussion.
Week 6
November 3
November 4
- Seminar: McKay, Sandra and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong's New Immigrants in the United States. Reyhner, Jon. "American Indian languages and United States language policy." Rains, Frances. "To Greet the Dawn with Open Eyes. American Indians, White Priviledge and the Power of Residual Guilt in the Social Studies."
- Leaders: Pamela Morgan, Aimee Richardson and Verónica Jayne. Guide for discussion.
NO OTHER ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEK.
Students should schedule individual conferences with faculty during this week.
Week 7
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 13
- Seminar: Porter's Forked Tongue.
- Leaders: Kendra Scheuerlein and Kevin Weyer.Guide for discussion.
Take-home exam due on Tuesday, November 11.
Week 8
November 17
- Lecture: Guest Lecture by Stephanie Donchey: ESL: Practices and Policies.
November 18
- Visit to Lister Elementary School in Tacoma .Information.
November 19
November 20
Week 9
November 24 Class meets in Lab I 1059
- Lecture: Needs, Policy and Programs in Bilingual Education.
- Presentation on Bilingual Education by Helen Valdes, Supervisor Bilingual Education, OSPI.(TBA)
November 25
- Seminar: Ovando and Colliers Bilingual and ESL Classrooms.
- Leaders: Kasi Rodriguez and Toby de Luca. Guide for discussion.
November 26
- Discussion: TESFL: Unit V (selected chapters). How to plan a class.
Interim descriptions and bibliographies of projects due on Monday, November 24
Workshop portfolios due on Wednesday, November 27.
Week 10
December 2
December 3
- Visit to Bilingual Program in Shelton: Evergreen Elementary School. Field Trip Information
December 4
December 5
Evaluation conferences can be scheduled on December 5 and 8.