List of Group Presentations
Group presentations for March 6-8
Group 1 Minan Hua: Assimilation, origins, discrimination and revival
Group 2 Ah-mei Tribal language
Group 3 Taiwanese language immersion program in Elementary schools
Group 4 The classical Chinese language teaching in Taiwan
Group 5 Aborigine's native language: oral language
Group 6 228
Group 7 Hakka dialect
Group 8 Teaching English for young learners in Taiwan and it implication to the native language
Guide to Questions
Guide to questions to Leyla Kokmen's article 'When a language dies'. Click on the link below to read and view the guide questions. To download the file, hover your mouse on the link, right click, and click 'Save file as...'
LINK
Creating Photo Story Images Using PowerPoint
Click the link below to read a tutorial on saving your powerpoint file to jpeg (or photo file) and using them in creating your photo story or documentary film using windows movie maker or microsoft photo story 3.
http://tinyurl.com/qonz5
download free voice recorder
Download free voice recorder from Handybits, click the link to download
http://www.handybits.com/voicemail.htmAnother free tool is Audacity, click the link below to download
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
When a language dies (podcast) part 2
When a language dies (podcast) part1
Using Windows Movie Maker
Movie Tutorial
To learn how to use Windows Movie Maker, click on
this link, and watch an online video to take you through the process.
Let me know if you need help. If you're online, you could buzz me up at Yahoo Intstant Messenger (aidenyeh)
What's Lost when a Language Dies?
What's lost when a language dies? by Leyla Kokmen
IMPORTANT NOTICEI just realized that the printed copy of the article I gave you in class only contains the 2nd half of the full article :-( The first half is missing.
Please go to
this link and print the entire article. Make sure that you bring the full article to class next week.
March 08 Presentation
Group Presentation for March 08
Documentary Films
Applying the ideas mentioned in the two articles, Oklahoma students and What's lost when a language dies, produce a documentary film that touches on one of the following topics:
-the indigenous languages of Taiwan
-revival of ethnic languages/dialects of Taiwan
- Hakka
-or Aborigine language
- assimilation of Taiwanese language
- 228
- How english is taught in Taiwan and its implications to the native language.
The film must be at least 20 minutes long.
Prepare a written report for submission together with a CD copy of your project.
Online discussion rubric
Download the Online Discussion Rubric here.
Make sure that you have read the rubric before you start posting to the online discussion forum.
Aiden
Online Forum for Language in Conflict
Online Forum for 'Language in Conflict'.
Click
this link to go to the forum
Your well-thought out comments and responses to the forum will be graded and will be counted as take-home quizzes.
If you have questions, please use the 'comments' feature of this blog. I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.
Aiden Yeh
Language in Conflict 2
Cherokee Alphabet available at http://public.csusm.edu/raven/cherokee.dir/cherokee.gif
Click
here to view the alphabet.
Listen to the Language in Conflict [2nd part] podcast based on Sue Pressley's article, 'Oklahoma students start the day with an O-si-yo for teacher' (The Boston Globe).
Running time: 2:40 minutes
Background Music, Native Son, Composed by:Pete Calandra, Scott P. Schreer
Published by: Freeplaymusic, BMI, Freeplaymusic, BMI
Language in Conflict
Say Hello in the Cherokee (Tsalagi) Language
Click
here to visit the Cherokee Language website
Listen to the Language in Conflict [1st part] podcast based on Sue Pressley's article, 'Oklahoma students start the day with an O-si-yo for teacher' (The Boston Globe).
Running time: 5:11 minutes
Background Music, Native Son, Composed by:Pete Calandra, Scott P. Schreer
Published by: Freeplaymusic, BMI, Freeplaymusic, BMI
Course Content for 2nd Semester
Syllabus for the 2nd Semester, SY 05-06
科目概要（Course Description）
This course is designed for fourth year students of 2-year college program. The pedagogy takes the form of classroom activities in which students discuss, read, and write together within a thematic context. Through readings and discussions, students explore cultural, social and linguistic issues. Students apply what they have learned by doing task-based collaborative projects which also enhance their learning skills and creativity.
教學目標（Course Objectives）
- To facilitate a critical thinking approach that emphasizes interactions across boundaries based on ethnicity, national origin, language communities, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and other cultural identities.
- To encourage students to make connections and comparisons between the issues being discussed and their own experience and communities.
- To explore moral dimensions behind fundamental local and global issues.
To let students become aware of their skills and abilities helping them achieve their full potential.
評量方式與評分比例分配（Evaluation Criteria＆Grading）
Oral presentations: 30% (15-20 minutes)
Mid-term exam: 20%
Final exam: 25%
Attendance & Participation: 10%
Quizzes: 15%
課堂要求（Course Requirement＆ Attendance Policies）
1. Students are required to participate actively in class and e-forum.
2. Students are expected to wear appropriate attire when making presentations.
3. Cell phones and beepers should be turned off in class.
4. Being late for more than 15 minutes will be considered an absence.
5. Absences are only allowed if doctors’ written notes are provided.
6. More than three unexcused absences will result in failure in the course.
7. There will be no make-up presentations/quizzes/tests.
教科書（Textbooks）
Blanton & Lee. 1995. The Multicultural Workshop, Heinle & Heinle
指定參考書目或網址（References）
Language and Culture by Claire Kramsch, 2001, Oxford
Encountering Cultures in a Changing World, 2nd ed, Richard Holeton, 1995, Blaire Press
Online Resources
