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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
EDUC 367-4 ?
TEACHING CHILDREN FROM MINORITY LANGUAGE
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BACKGROUNDS IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
(D01.00)
Jean Warburton
Phone: 604-268-6857
email: jwarburt@sfu.ca
TUESDAY 12:30-4:20
WMC 3535
PREREQUISITE:
60 credit hours
DESCRIPTION
This course is intended to provide you with the opportunity to consider how effective elementary
curriculum and instruction are organized when students come from a wide variety of linguistic and
cultural backgrounds. Participants will examine the following topics: language as meaning making
systems; pre-school language development, orality and learning, learning to write and 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 for operating effective instructional programs
in elementary classrooms.
EVALUATION
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REQUIREMENTS:
This course will involve frequent large and small group discussions and students are expected to come
to each class prepared to participate actively and respond thoughtfully to all assigned readings.
Evaluation will be based on both individual and small group assignments.
PARTICIPATION AND IN-CLASS READING RESPONSES ?
30%
SMALL GROUP PRESENTATIONS ?
30%
TERM PAPER ?
40%
EXPECTATIONS:
i.
active and interested participation
ii. final paper to be submitted to Tumitin
REQUIRED READINGS:
Gibbons, P. (1991). Learning to learn in a second language. ISBN 0-435-08785-1
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EDUC Outline
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Helmer, S. & Eddy, C. (2004). Look at Me When I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL
Classrooms. Toronto: Pippin Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0-88751-108-2
Gibbons, P. (2002), Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching second language learners in
the mainstream classroom. Toronto: Pearson Education Canad. ISBN:
0-325-00366-1
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