DOE TEACH selected readings notes for the next 3 sessions...(Check Feb 12 handouts)

1. Language Learning issues to consider:

- an innate human capacity

- components of language

- language development sequence

- characteristics of adult and child language learning

- the influence of first language on second language learning

- variables of language learning

- meaningful context

- comprehensible input
 
 

What is discourse? How is language used between students and teachers? List some scaffolding techniques

for facilitating discourse. Analyze language samples for scaffolding techniques and for communication

strategies.
 
 

define morphology and how is the acquisition of the inflectional system

types of morphemes and the concept of creating new words

study and analyze word order in other languages

potential influence of differences between the first and the target language

sentence transformation and the first language effects
 
 

what does a word mean?

form versus meaning

what does meaning mean?

meaning and the mind

metaphor

pragmatics and sociolinguistics

how do children acquire language?

can adults facilitate children's language acquisition?

second Language acquisition review: bridging, chunking, and creating

myths and misconceptions about language