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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

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

Monday, February 27, 2006

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.htm

Another free tool is Audacity, click the link below to download



http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

When a language dies (podcast) part 2




To download the file, right click (hover your mouse to this link) here. And click 'Save file as'. After downloading the file, you could transfer it to your mp3 player and listen to it while you're on the go!

MIXED PROGRAMS (TALK AND MUSIC)
Title: what's lost when a language dies? Part 2
File size: 18.8
MBLength: 19:36
Format: mp3

When a language dies (podcast) part1




To download the file, right click (hover your mouse to this link) here. And click 'Save file as'. After downloading the file, you could transfer it to your mp3 player and listen to it while you're on the go!

MIXED PROGRAMS (TALK AND MUSIC)
Title: What's lost when a language dies? Part 1
File size: 15.9 MBLength: 16:32Format: mp3DESCRIPTION

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Using Windows Movie Maker

Movie Tutorial Posted by Picasa


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)

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

What's Lost when a Language Dies?

What's lost when a language dies? by Leyla Kokmen Posted by Picasa


IMPORTANT NOTICE

I 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.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

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.

Monday, February 20, 2006

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

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Online Forum for Language in Conflict


Online Forum for 'Language in Conflict'.  Posted by Picasa


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

Friday, February 17, 2006

Language in Conflict 2

Cherokee Alphabet available at http://public.csusm.edu/raven/cherokee.dir/cherokee.gif Posted by Picasa

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




To download the file, right click (hover your mouse to this link) here. And click 'Save file as'. After downloading the file, you could transfer it to your mp3 player and listen to it while you're on the go!

Full article is available on pages 149-151 of The Multicultural Workshop book.

Language in Conflict

Say Hello in the Cherokee (Tsalagi) Language  Posted by Picasa

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




To download the file, right click (hover your mouse to this link) here. And click 'Save file as'. After downloading the file, you could transfer it to your mp3 player and listen to it while you're on the go!

Full article is available on pages 149-151 of The Multicultural Workshop book.

Course Content for 2nd Semester




The length of the audio is 05:08
Bit rate: 12 kbps
To download the file, right click (hover your mouse to this link) here. And click 'Save file as'. After downloading the file, you could transfer it to your mp3 player and listen to it while you're on the go!
Background Music is 'Tea for Two' Composed by:Pierre Langer, SESAC, Scott P. Schreer, BMI, Published by: Dynamedion Publishing, Freeplaymusic


Instruction Approaches involve: Lecture, in-class and online discussions, class activities, projects
Participation in online forum are graded and credited for quizzes.

1. 2/22
Language in Conflict, “Oklahoma students start the day with an O-si-yo for Teacher”
Lecture, in-class discussion, class activities

2. 3/1
Language, Ethnicity and Identity
What’s lost when a language dies? by Leyla Kokmen
Participate in the online forum.
3. 3/8
Group Presentation


4. 3/15
Language and Bicultural Identity
Public and Private Language by R. Rodriguez

Participate in the online forum.
5. 3/22
Different Englishes
Performing Identity: a Stage for Multilingual English and Multicultural Englishness

6. 4/5
Spring Break


7. 4/12
Dialects, Standard English
Good English by John Simon
From Outside, In, B. Mellix

Online discussion with invited guest speaker
8. 4/19
Midterm


9. 4/26
Who speaks English?


10. 5/3
Standards for English

11. 5/10
Effective ways of learning a language.
What’s in a name?

Participate in the online forum.

12. 5/17
Achieving Full Potential
Individual presentations. Credited for Final Exam

13. 5/24
Achieving Full Potential

14. 5/31
Final
5/31 Dragon Boat Festival

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