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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

FALL SEMESTER 2006

TEACHING CHILDREN FROM MINORITY LANGUAGE

(E01.00)

Alma Kiilic,

Med.

email: hialma@telus.net

MONDAY 16:30-20:20 in EDB 8620B

PREREQUISITE:

60 credit hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course will be of interest to language teachers who wish to examine the educational practices for

children of minority language backgrounds within the context of mainstream classrooms. We will

further discuss issues such as inclusion/exclusion, language learning theories, classroom practice, ethics

and think about our future plans for practice. We will identify the principles for effective curriculum

development and instruction in classrooms with children who come from various cultural backgrounds

and reflect on our own thinking about language education.

EVALUATION:

Group project

25%

Two reflective papers 40% (each 3-page paper worth 20%)

Final essay 35 %

REQUIRED READINGS:

Paley, V.G. (1991). You can't say you can't play. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN

0-674-96590-6

Toohey, K. (2000). Learning English at school: Identity, social relations and classroom practice.

Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 1-85359-482-2

Gibbons, P. (1991). Learning to learn in a second language. NSW, Australia: Primary English

Teaching Association. ISBN 0-435-08785-1

RECOMMENDED READING:

Derewianka, B. (1990). Exploring how texts work. NSW, Australia: Primary English Teaching

Association. ISBN 0909955905

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