Bilingual Education and Teaching Group Contract

Fall 2003 Syllabus

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

On Monday, November 24, class will meet in Lab I 1059

Description & Schedule

Reading List ----> Look for some changes in the reading list for week 4 and week 6

Recommended readings (supplementary)

Week by Week Activities

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Course description

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
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Place
L. 2126
AM: L 2205/'2204

PM: L. 2458

L 2458

 

AM: L 2204

PM: L 2458

 

AM
 
9:30 - 12:00

Lecture

10:00-1:00

Workshop

9:00 - 12:00

Seminar

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.

 

NOTE: We will have regular meetings during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, which will allow us to end the quarter one week earlier. Students should stay on Campus until Wednesday afternoon of Thanksgiving week.

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.

 

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Reading list

 

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.

Genesee, Fred, ed. Educating Second Language Children: The Whole Child, the Whole Curriculum, the Whole Community. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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. Teacher’s Handbook. Contextualized Language Instruction. 2nd ed. United States: Heinle & Heinle, 2000.

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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.

Hakuta, Kenji. Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism. New York: Basic Books, 1986.

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.

---, ed. Teaching the Indian child : a bilingual / multicultural approach. 2nd ed. Billings, MT : Eastern Montana College, c1988.

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.

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Week 1


 

Week 2

October 6

October 7

    • Ernestine Kimbro: Introduction to library resources and research methodologies

October 8

  • Discussion: Acton, William R. and Judith Walker de Felix. "Acculturation and Mind. " Brown, Douglas H. "Learning a Second Culture'. Shrum & Glisan’s Teacher’s Handbook. Contextualized Language Instruction. (TH): Chapters 1 & 2. Activities

October 9

  • Seminar: Bialystok and Hakuta’s In Other Words. The Science and Psychology of Second Language Acquisition.
  • Leaders: Cristina Estenes, Katherine Fraser and Miles Thomas. Guide for discussion.

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Week 3

 

October 13

    • Video: Brain and Language.
    • Second Language Acquisition: Internal and external factors.

     

October 14

October 15

  • Discussion: Celce-Murcia’s Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. (TESFL). 1-42 and 55-66. Activities.
  • Discussion of students’interests and possibilities to work in the community.

October 16

    • Seminar: Grosjean’s 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

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

    • Seminar: Grosjean’s Life with two languages. Chapters 1, 2 and 3. ` Fishman, Joshua A. "Bilingualism and Biculturism as Individual and as Societal Phenomena.
    • Helms, Janet E. A Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person.
  • Gutiérrez, Fernando José. "Bicultural Personality Development: a Process Model."
  • Leaders: Victoria Croskrey, Shara Cunningham and Jacky Schlendwein. Guide for discussion.

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

  • Discussion: TESFL: 101-151. TH: Chapter 8. Activities.
  • Guest speakers: Maribel Vilchez (Lincoln Elementary School): Spanish as Foreign Language; Ellen Shortt, Program Coordinator Even Start Program: ESL for adults.

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

  • Lecture: Guest Lecture by Prof. Frances Rains: "Language and Education in the Native American Community."

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

  • Discussion: TESFL 151-249. TH: Chapters 7 & 9. Activities. Guest speaker: ESL in K-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

November 19

  • Discussion: TESFL: 249-359. TH; Chapter 3. Activities.

November 20

  • Seminar: Genesee’s Educating Second Language Children: Chapters 1, 2 & 12. Corson's Language Diversity and Education. Chapters 1-5.
  • Leaders: Allen Thomas, Kevin Moore and Lily Martin.Guide for discussion.

 


 

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 Collier’s 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

December 4

December 5

  • Seminar: Ovando and Collier’s Bilingual and ESL Classrooms and
  • Leaders: Jennifer Booher and John Bolton.Guide for discussion.

Evaluation conferences can be scheduled on December 5 and 8.

 

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