| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assignment |
| 1 |
Jan. 11 |
What are heritage languages?
How do we read, discuss & write to learn?
|
Read syllabus and Quercus
Escholz, Rosa & Clark 05 (on reading) |
HW 1: Your own heritage language (HL) experiences
(due Jan. 18, solo) |
| 2 |
Jan. 18
|
What are your HL experiences?
How does fieldwork work?
|
|
| Jan. 23 |
Last day to add a class |
| 3 |
Jan. 25 |
How do we do library research at U of T?
Guest speakers: Lana Soglasnova & Ben Walsh |
Escholz, Rosa & Clark 05: 662-673 (on citing sources)
APA site & tutorial |
HW 2: Library resources webpage
(due Feb. 1, solo) |
| 4 |
Feb. 1 |
What are some connections between ethnicity and language? |
Read 1 carefully to present; skim the rest:
- Cunha 05
- Marquez 99
- Oh & Fuligni 09 (to p. 208, at least)
- Tan 05
|
| 5 |
Feb. 8 |
What about attitudes? |
Guardado 02
Sevinç 17
|
HW 3: A little fieldwork
(due Feb. 15, group) |
| 6 |
Feb. 15 |
What can happen to HLs?
|
Polinsky & Kagan 07 (pp. 368-84)
|
| Feb. 21-25 | Reading Week -- NO CLASSES |
| 7 |
Mar. 1 |
How do we analyze linguistic structure connected to social groups? |
Your choice of 1 of 5 to present in class:
- Łyskawa et al. 16
- Iannozzi 15
- Pabst et al. 17
- Shkvorets 15
- Tse 16
|
HW 4: Exploring attitudes
(draft due Mar. 8, group) |
| 8 |
Mar. 8 |
How do we write about research?
Guest speaker: Pocholo Umbal
|
revisit the papers from last week |
| 9 |
Mar. 15 |
What happens with heritage languages at home? |
Chumak-Horbatch 87
|
HW 5: Linguistic structures
(draft due Mar. 22, group) |
| 10 |
Mar. 22 |
What happens with heritage languages in school? |
Goldstein 97
Polinsky & Kagan 07:384-390 |
| 11 |
Mar. 29 |
How are politics and globalization relevant to HLs? |
Crystal 05
Ricento 2013:525-537
|
HW 6: Formal report (from drafts of HWs 3-6)
(due Apr. 5, solo) |
| 12 |
Apr. 5 |
Wrap-up and catch-up |
|
Updated
Mar. 8, 2022
