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Linguistics at U of T

TBB 199.15W: Exploring Heritage Languages

Syllabus (Schedule)

In the second half of Winter 2015, we meet in Room 5250, OISE [map ]

Syllabus

Week Date Topic Reading Assignment
1 Jan. 7 What are heritage languages?
How do we read to learn?
How do we discuss to learn?
 

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HW 1:
Start blogging
(due Jan. 14)

2

Jan. 14

[Today's class in Robarts Library room 4033]

How do we do library research at U of T?

Guest speaker: L. Soglasnova

Kakutani 05

Escholz, Rosa & Clark 99

APA site & tutorial

HW 2:

Library resources
(due Jan. 21)

3 Jan. 18 Last day to add a class
Jan. 21

What are your HL experiences?
How does fieldwork work?

HLVC website

Chambers 06

Tan 05

Schleef & Meyerhoff 09:1-10

HW 3:

Learning about the structure of a HL

(due Feb. 4)

4 Jan. 28

What can happen to HLs?

Polinsky & Kagan 07 (pp. 368-84)

Berry 98

5 Feb. 4 What are some connections between ethnicity and language?

Cunha 05

Marquez 99

Oh & Fuligni 09 (to p. 208, at least)

HW 4:

Neighborhood profile or Changing complexity of a HL

(draft due Thursday, Feb. 26 by 10:00 a.m.)

6 Feb. 11

What are some connections between other social factors and language?
How do we write about research?

Your choice of 1 of:

  • Boberg 04
  • MicKinnie 00
  • Guardado 02
Feb. 16-20Reading Week -- NO CLASSES, No office hours
7 Feb. 25 work on your research project with your partner
8 Mar. 4 How do we measure how much a language changes in a contact situation?

Meyerhoff 06:102-121 &

your choice of 1 of:

  • Goldstein 97
  • Chumak-Horbatch 87
HW 5:

EOQ or linguistic analysis

(draft due Mar. 11)

Mar. 8 Last day to drop a "W" class
9 Mar. 11 How do we go out and do fieldwork?
Guest speaker: Darcie Blainey, Heritage French in Louisiana

Schleef & Meyerhoff 09:10-13

HW 6:

Formal report

(due Apr. 1)

10 Mar. 18 What do you know about HLs in school?

Ricento 2013:525-537

Polinsky & Kagan 07:384-390

11 Mar. 25

How are politics and globalization relevant to HLs?

Crystal 05

Your choice of 1 of:

  • Brown 05
  • Chu 05
  • Duff-Brown 05
  • Duffy 05
  • Fallows 98
  • Hayakawa 89
  • Tagliabue 05
12 Apr. 1 Wrap-up and catch-up In class assignment

 

Please consider printing double-sided, using 1.5 spacing and omitting title pages on your own work, and reading onscreen when possible.

Updated Mar. 3, 2015

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