Class

 Date

 Topic

 Reading Assignment

 1

Jan. 20

• Introduction to course
• Introduction to course website
• Introduction to Compass
• Assignments

 2

Jan. 27

• Knowledge, Language, Learning & Education
• "Homepages" in Compass

 3

Feb. 3

• Introduction to human language
• Theories of language acquisition

 H & H chaps. 1 & 2

Cziko, 1995, chap. 11 (optional)

 4

Feb. 10

• Theories of child development: Piaget & Vygotsky

 5

Feb. 17

• Language development from birth to two years

 6

Feb. 24

• Language development through preschool
  • concept map
  • Pinker on motherese

 7

Mar. 2

• Language at school 
  • Levels of communication

 8

Mar. 9

• Speech & phonological development
• English poem

 9

Mar. 16

• Language diversity
  • Tannen video on gender differences
  • Dialect extract

 10

Mar. 30

• Speech & language disorders

 11

Apr. 6

• Children, families & learning to talk

 12

Apr. 13

• Talking to learn; From home to school

 13

Apr. 20

• Knowledge; Differences; Literacy
• Meaningful Differences (Hart & Risley)
• Team Web Project Presentations 1

 14

Apr 27

• At Age 10; Stories; From Theory to Practice
• Technology for language development
• Team Web Project Presentations 2

 15

May 4

• Team Web Project Presentations 3
• Voices from the Inside
• (Responsible Thinking Program video)
• Overview of "Big Ideas"
• Changes in Beliefs
• ICES forms completion
• Final assignment; pre-post changes ("quiz")
• Parting quote

May 11

5-7pm

• Final Exam in 70A Wohlers Hall (computer lab)