First-Year Tutorial:
Second Language Acquisition
Meeting Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Ciruti 9)
FALL SYLLABUS
DISCUSSION FORUM: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/germ/courses/tutorial/forum/
(The discussion question on the reading(s) will be posted every week by Thursday before each Monday meeting AND by the Friday before each Wednesday meeting)
DATE
ASSIGNMENT
Wednesday,
September 23
Krashen, Foreign Language: The Easy Way
Wednesday,
September 30
Pinker, The Language Instinct (pp.15-54)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 9/29)
Monday,
October 5
Pinker, The Language Instinct (pp.55-125)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 10/4)
Wednesday,
October 14
Pinker, The Language Instinct (pp.126-230)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 10/13)
Wednesday,
October 21
Pinker, The Language Instinct (pp.231-331)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 10/20)
Wednesday,
October 28
Pinker, The Language Instinct (pp.332-430)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 10/27)
Monday,
November 2
Krashen, Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition (pp.1-82)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 11/1)
Wednesday,
November 11
Krashen, Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition (pp.83-end)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 11/10)
Monday,
November 16
Krashen, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning (pp.1-63)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 11/15)
Monday,
November 23
Krashen, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning (pp.64-end)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 11/22)
Monday,
November 30
Krashen, The Power of Reading (pp.ix-45)
Wednesday,
December 9
Krashen, The Power of Reading (pp.46-end)
(Discussion question due by 10 p.m. on 12/8)
Monday,
December 14
Concluding discussion and discussion of final projects
You should make every effort to attend the events sponsored by the Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy (see handout). There will be a meeting of all first-year tutorial students and faculty following the October 16th panel discussion:What Makes a Good Liberal Arts Education? (there will be dinner together and then a discussion of Three Guineas  afterwards)

There will also be a similar get-together on December 2nd (more later)!
FINAL SEMESTER PROJECT: Paper or WWW site!

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