Faculty Name

Anne DeMuth

Document Type

Syllabi

School

HSE

Department

ADAL

Course Subject

ESL

Course Number

7902

Course Section

01

Course Title

Language and Society

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2014

Credits

4.00

Course Description

Focus on the varieties of language and how they reflect social patterns. Explore the importance of language in all our interactions. Examine the social nature of language, and how language reflects social situations. Study the issues of language and social class, ethnic group, and gender, as well as topics in language and nationality, language and geography, and the social nature of writing. Learn to pay particular attention to the social-linguistic situations of second language learners (i.e., those who are not native speakers of a socially dominant language or dialect) as well as the sociolinguistics of language in the classroom. Includes an overview of English grammar designed for teachers of ESL grades K-12. Target audience: language arts, modern language, administrators, and ESL teachers, K-adult.

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