Course Schedule + Materials

(tentative and subject to change)

*This schedule contains links to all course content – look for the underlined text!

Week Online Material
 Reading Zoom Meeting

(optional unless noted)

 Due
(by end of week)
1 Introduction — Thurs, 2/4

6-7:30 PM
REQUIRED

 Homework 1
2 Phonetics “The linguistic facts of life” (pages 5-23, Lippi-Green, 2011) Thurs, 2/11

6-7 PM

Homework 2
3 Phonology

“The scope and relevance of accent” (Moyer, 2013; use class password to access)

 Thurs, 2/18

6-7 PM

 Homework 3

 
4 Morphology, pt. 1

“The educational system: Fixing the message in stone” (Lippi-Green, 2011; use class password to access)

 Thurs, 2/25

6-7 PM

 Homework 4
5 Morphology, pt. 2 “‘She doesn’t have the basic understanding of a language’: Using spelling research to challenge deficit conceptualizations of adolescent bilinguals” (Brooks, 2017) Thurs, 3/4

6-7 PM

 Homework 5
6 Syntax, pt. 1 “’Pink Chess Gring Gous’: Discursive and orthographic resistance among Mexican-American rap fans on YouTube” (Cutler, 2018; use class password to access) Thurs, 3/11

6-7 PM

 Homework 6
7 Syntax, pt. 2 The Languages of New York State: A CUNY-NYSIEB Guide for Educators Thurs, 3/18

6-7:30 PM
REQUIRED

 Homework 7
8 —  — No meeting Exam 1
9 — — No meeting —
10 Variation, pt. 1 “Teaching children how to discriminate: What we learn from the Big Bad Wolf” (Lippi-Green, 2011) Thurs, 4/8

6-7 PM

 Homework 8
11 Variation, pt. 2 Homegirls, Chapter 2 (Mendoza-Denton, 2008; use class password to access) Thurs, 4/15
6-7 PM		 Homework 9
12 Variation, pt. 3 Linguistic Justice, Chapter 1 & 2 (Baker-Bell, 2020; use class password to access) Thurs, 4/22

6-7 PM

 Homework 10
13 SLA and translanguaging “Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages” (Otheguy, Reid & García, 2015) Thurs, 4/29

6-7 PM

 Homework 11
14 Raciolinguistics and linguistic justice “Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education” (Flores & Rosa, 2015; use class password to access) Thurs, 5/6
6-7:30 PM
REQUIRED		 Homework 12
15 Course wrap-up and presentations — Thurs, 5/13

6-7:30 PM
REQUIRED

 Lesson proposal
(Suggested due date: Sun, 5/16)
16 — — — Exam 2
(Suggested due date: Sun, 5/23)

FIRM due date for all work: Tuesday, 5/25 (midnight)

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