Emphasis is placed on accuracy, fluency, communicative competence with self-monitoring an important goal. Students will be evaluated on the basis on regular attendance, successful completion of assignments, tests, and video work. Writing for Academic Purposes. Permission of instructor. This course is designed for non-native graduate and undergraduate students who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University, but who need to improve their writing skills to perform successfully in academic work.
Class meetings are once a week for ninety minutes.
There is instruction and practice in the writing of a range of texts for specific purposes, e.g., extended definitions, descriptions of processes, data commentaries, literature reviews. Grades are based on regular attendance, successful completion of specified writing assignments, and satisfactory performance on a final evaluation task. Second Language Acquisition. We will first examine methodological issues necessary for the interpretation of second language data. The major part of the course will focus on topics of recent second language acquisition research, especially those that enable us to test proposed models of second language acquisition.