Week 10 Academic Reading Circle

This week's reading is a little tough. There's a lot of information and not all of it is relevant to classroom teachers. However, I feel obligated to give you a full view of Vygotsky's ideas in relation to SLA.

As you read, try to focus on the ZPD (what it is), co-construction of meaning, scaffolding, and how it all connects to Methodology (or what you're doing in your classrooms).

***New groups and roles posted in the sugarsync folder.

Week 9 Academic Reading Circle

This week's reading continues the Information Processing model with some classroom implications. In class we'll evaluate some textbooks according to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Week 8 Academic Reading Circle

Don't forget to do the reading and fulfill your ARC role.

You should also be thinking about a language feature for your research project.

Week 7 Dialogue Journal

Week 7 Dialogue Journal

**Notes: In week 7 we'll be looking at how input and output play a role in L2 development - you'll see there are two readings for each topic. Of the two for each topic, one is relatively short, and the other is quite long. I suggest reading the articles in the following way: read 01, skim 02 for clarification of things that may not be clear in 01 and longer explanations of concepts (hypotheses). Read 03, then skim (or peek into) 04 for more examples.

Most of Swain's output research was done in French immersion schools so if you have a background in French, you might find the examples particularly interesting.

We will choose new groups in class tonight.