TESL 633/LING-633 Applied Linguistics II

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (7)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must be at least 400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge and graduate-level writing regarding content and style. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 150 words. Current APA formatting must be used for bibliographical entries and in-text citations.

• Phonetics and Phonology
• Morphology Words and Their Parts
• Acoustics of Vowels and Consonants and Syllables
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology and Spelling and Pronunciation
• Topics from DeCapua Chapters 6, 7,  and 
• Clauses

Language Analysis Assignments (6)

The student will analyze various activities that focus on a specific aspect of language, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and tense. Each assignment includes both exercises and an essay (except for Phrase Structure Rules and Tree Diagramming, which includes a diagramming component rather than the essay). Each essay must be 400–700 words, in current APA format. Each essay must include at least 2 other references from peer-reviewed research. 

• What is Grammar?
• English Consonants and English Vowels
• The Noun Phrase
• Stress and Intonation and Phonology of L1
• Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs
• Types of Clauses

Term Paper Assignments (2)

Students will develop a paper that reviews one aspect of grammar, pronunciation or lexicon and investigate how that aspect plays out in an ESL environment in enabling students to learn language more successfully (e.g.  How to teach clauses, How to improve pronunciation via minimal pairs, How to teach articles, etc.).

• Initial Draft: The student will research and write an initial draft of his/her final paper, at a minimum of 10 pages (not counting front and back matter). The draft must be in current APA format and include all components of the final draft.
• Final Draft: The student will research and write a 12–15-page paper (excluding front and back matter) that focuses on a facet of language that interests him/her. The final draft must be in current APA format and contain a minimum of 12 references.

Summation Assignment

The student will write a paper of at least 700 words explaining the aspects of phonology and grammar and how those topics apply to teaching second language learners using both the Yavas and DeCapua texts.