WON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Spring Semester 2003 ?
EDUC 367 - 4 ?
Dr. Jean Warburton
Teaching Children from Minority Language
Office: TBA
Backgrounds in Elementary Classrooms
Phone: TBA
Email: TBA
Wednesday 16:30-20:20 ?
E01.00
PREREQUISITE:
60 credit hours
DESCRIPTION
This course is intended to provide you the opportunity to consider how effective elementary school
curriculum and instruction are organized when students come from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural
backgrounds. Participants will examine the following topics: languages as meaning-making systems;
pre-school language development; orality and learning; learning to write learning to read; classrooms as
environments fostering language/ literacy development; evaluation of language skills. Recognizing that our
learners come from diverse backgrounds and bring diverse talents to the classroom, examining these topics
should prepare teachers well for operating effective instructional programs in elementary classrooms.
REQUIREMENTS:
1.
Statement of issues and concerns: 10%
2.
Book review: 25%
3.
Classroom observation: 25%
4.
Final term paper or action research proposal: 40%
REQUIRED READINGS:
Toohey, K. (2000).
Learning English at School: Identity, social relations and classroom practice.
Gibbons, P. (1991).
Learning to learn in a second language.
Additional selected readings on reserve.
