Course Description | Requirements | Syllabus | LSA 2001

Technology and Second Language Acquisition

Linguistics 593 cb

Summer 2001
July 16-August 1

Mon & Wed 10:00-11:50
Kerr Hall 2160

Instructors Dorothy Chun & Hsia0-jung (Sharon) Yu
Office Phelps 6216 (DC), HSSB 2239 (H-jY)
Office Hour By appointment
E-mail

dchun@gss.ucsb.edu
sharonyu@eastasian.ucsb.edu

Course Description :

This course is concerned with the theory and practice of using digital media for the teaching and learning of second/foreign languages. We will discuss research on how second language acquisition is facilitated with technology, as well as principles for the design and development of multimedia courseware.

Course Materials:

Reading packet available at AS Notes.

Course Requirements:

• Reading, participation in discussions.

• Each participant will lead a 25-minute discussion of an article in the reading packet. Click here for guidelines.

• Short critique/evaluation of a CD-ROM or website for language learning (3-4 pages, double-spaced, due 8/1/01). Click here for guidelines.

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Revised Syllabus

Date Topic Assignment

Class 1

7/16/01

 

Class 2

7/18/01

  • Overview of CALL, CALL Environments
  • The Brain and Language Learning
  • Teaching phonology, grammar, writing a non-Roman alphabet
  • Demonstration and hands-on use of CyberChinese (CD-ROM for teaching tones, grammar, Chinese characters)
 
  • Related topic: Overview of theories of learning with multimedia
  • Recommended related reading: Mayer, 1992, 1997

Class 3

7/23/01

  • Research on effectiveness of CALL courseware
  • Design Processes in CALL
  • L2 vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension
  • Demonstration and hands-on use of CyberBuch, Ciberteca (CD-ROMs for reading)
  • Yu & Michaels, 1998
  • Levy, 1999
  • Chun & Plass, 1996

 

 
  • Related topic: Research on SLA with digital media
  • Recommended related reading: Hulstijn, 2000
  • Zhang, 1998 (CALL for Chinese)

Class 4

7/25/01

  • Ganderton, 1999
  • Pennington, 1999
  • Chun, 1998a (reprint of 1994 System article)
 
  • Recommended related reading: Kelly, 2000 (Practical guidelines for designing ESL websites)

Class 5

7/30/01

  • Teaching pronunciation, listening comprehension
  • Web-based courseware for ESL/EFL: demonstration and hands-on use of Pronunciation Power
  • Review of listening sites for ESL/EFL on the Web: Peterson, 2001
  • Teaching culture (Cultura)
   

Class 6

8/01/01

 

  • Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and electronic literacy
  • Presentations by International Programs of UCSB Extension:
    • "Using Nicenet in the ESL classroom"
    • "English through website design"
  • Kern, 1997
  • Blake, 2000
 
  • Recommended reading on teacher education: Erben, 1999

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Recommended Reading:

Brown, H. Douglas, 1994, Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall Regents.

Cameron, K. (Ed.), 1999, Computer assisted language learning: Media, design and applications, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.

Debski, R. & Levy, M. (Eds.), 1999. WORLDCALL: Global perspectives on computer assisted language learning, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.

Egbert, J. & HansonSmith, E. (Eds.), 1999, CALL environments: Research, practice, and critical issues, Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

Ellis, Rod, 1997, Second Language Acquisition, Oxford University Press.

Gass, Susan M. & Selinker, Larry, 2001, Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course, 2nd ed., Lawrence Erlbaum.

Herring, S. C. , 1996, Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kramsch, Claire, 2000, "Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, and the Teaching of Foreign Languages," The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 84, No. 3.

Lightbown, Patsy M. and Nina Spada, 1993, How Languages are Learned, Oxford University Press.

Muyskens, J. A. (Ed.), 1997, New ways of learning and teaching: Focus on technology and foreign language education, Boston: Heinle and Heinle.

Omaggio Hadley, Alice, 2000, Teaching Language in Context, 3nd ed., Heinle & Heinle.

 

Journals:

SLA Research FL Research/Pedagogy Language-Specific CALL
Applied Linguistics Canadian Modern Language Journal French Review Computer Assisted Language Learning
Language Learning Foreign Language Annals Hispania Language Learning and Technology http://llt.msu.edu/
Studies in Second Language Acquisition Modern Language Journal Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics
    TESOL Quarterly Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/
    Unterrichtspraxis The Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/

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Recommended Resources:

Blyth, C. S. (1999). Untangling the Web: Nonce’s guide to language and culture on the Internet. New York: Wiley/Nonce.

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia [http://www.adec.edu/admin/papers/fair10-17.html]

Lynch, P. J. & Horton, S. (1999). Web style guide. New Haven: Yale University Press. [Also available at http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html]

Warschauer, M., Shetzer, H. & Meloni, C. (2000). Internet for English Teaching. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

 

Listservs for Language Teaching:

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