Course Description
Examines sociocultural and pedagogical issues concerning literacy in a non-native language in emergent and newly fluent readers and writers in the elementary to middle school years. Students apply linguistics to literacy theory and learn to contextualize literacy instruction and assessment to meet local community needs.
Athena Title
Non-Native Lang Lit Youth
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 7601E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Through assignments and project work, students will: 1. List the sociocultural and cognitive dimensions of non-native language literacy 2. Enumerate major theoretical perspectives and research traditions 3. Describe L2 literacy assessment methods 4. Recommend techniques for teaching reading and writing to adolescent and adult L2 learners 5. Identify the phonetic, syntactic and pragmatic aspects of the biliteracy continua
Topical Outline
1. Theories on literacy development and SLA: Historical and theoretical overview a. literacy as social phenomenon b. literacy as individual phenomenon 2. What is biliteracy? What is a sociocultural approach to Literacy? a. the context b. content c. media d. development 3. What is the relationship between Oralcy and Literacy; L1 and L2? a. the primitive vs. civilized distinction b. literacies on a continuum 4. Linguistics and Liliteracy: a focus on phonology a. International Phonetics Association b. contrast and complementary distribution c. applied linguistics, error analysis and correction 5. Second Language Literacy in two languages a. Mathematics and literacy in two languages b. social studies and science and literacy in two languages 6. Assessment--driving instruction a. product oriented, summative assessments b. process oriented, formative assessments 7. Ethnographies of Literacy to understand cultural impacts