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Join the class Yahoo! Group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sy97_LC/

 

2nd Semester

 

Week 1 2/17-2/19

Course requirements/procedures

 

 

Male Bashing

 

Male Crisis

 Lecture/

Discussion

Read: Tannen, D. “Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” pp. 199-

Week 2 2/24- 2/26

Do men and women use language differently?

Discussion of Tannen’s article

Sex, Lies & Conversation

Lecture/Discussion

Write down two examples of gender-based differences in communication from your own observations or experience.

 

 

Read: Nilsen, A. Sexism in English. Can be downloaded from http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/sexinEnglish.html

Week 3  3/3-3/5

Sexism in Language

QUIZ 1

Bring 3 examples of sexist language to class. These can be drawn from any language you know.

 

 

Week 4    3/10-3/12

Do cultural expectations of men and women differ?

 

 

Read: Brady, J. “I Want a Wife” pp. 445-449 and Goodman, “The Company Man” pp. 147-150.

 

 

Week 5    3/17- 3/19

The Androgynous Male

 

 

Invited Guest Lecturer

QUIZ 2

 

 

Attendance is a must.

Some questions for Quiz 2 will be based on this lecture.

Week 6    3/24-3/26

 

Invited Guest Lecturer (Language & Humor)

 

 

  

7    4/7-4/9

Kate Chopin:  The Story of an Hour 

Thursday: Quiz 2

 

 

 

8    4/14- 4/16

Read Sanders, S. “

The Men We Carry in Our Minds”, pp. 215-218.

 

 

 

Non-Verbal Communication/Body Language

 

 

 

 

 

9    4-21-4/24

Midterm

Student Group Presentations: Choose a print or TV advertisement that reveals cultural expectations about gender roles. Discuss the ways in which expectations about gender are made clear to the addressee.

 

 

10   4/28-4/30

Con't of Presentations

 

Just Walk on By

Black Men and Public Space

Self-Perceptions & Stereotypes

 

 

 

 

Staples

Walk_on_by

Racial_Stereotypes 

11   5/5-5/7

  

Quiz 3 

 

Read handout on rhetorical devices.

12   5/12-5/14

Can language be political?

 

 

Can language affect political change?

 

 

Meanings of Word, pp. 131-133

 

 

Politically Correct Language

 

Censored Language

Lecture/Discussion

 

 

Barack Obama’s Presidential Speech

 

 

 

Bring in examples of potentially harmful language.

 

13   5/19-5/21

 

Should this student have been expelled? pp. 384-393

 

 

 

5/26 Written Exam

Lecture/Discussion

 

 

 

Bring examples of censorship in Taiwan.

14     5/26-

 

 

5/28 No class (Dragon-boat festival)

5/26 Final Paper

 

 

Choose a verbal or written excerpt from a speech, interview, dialogue, or recorded confrontation by a local politician or someone famous. What specific language was used which contained harmful/censored language. How did the language used in that speech/interview affect people’s perception of him/her? Using this excerpt, discuss whether you are in favor of unlimited freedom of expression. What are the effects of the use of politically incorrect (immoral, abhorrent, dangerous) language to the society as a whole?

 

1st Semester 

 

上課日期

Date

課程內容

Course Content

授課方式

Instructional Approaches

作業、報告、考試或其他

Assignments, Tests and Others

備註

Remarks

Week 1

9/8-9/13

Course requirements/procedures

Language & Cultural Identity

World Englishes & Miscommunications

 Lecture/Q&A

 

 

Read:  Tan. “Mother Tongue”, p. 471

Writing letters to the Editor

Week 2

9/15-9/20

World Englishes

Who Speaks English Today?

English as an International Language

Powerpoint

Reading material

EIL

Week 3

 9/22-9/27

English as a Lingua Franca

Go to the Yahoo! Group to view PPT and reading materials.

Watch video lecture: Prof. Jenkins

Week 4

9/29-10/4

Read: Noda. “Growing up Asian in America, p 165

Watch video lecture: Kramsch

 

Week 5

10/6-10/11

Video Conference with international student-participants of WE

Student-conference

Review video lectures and prepare discussion questions.

Week 6

10/13-10/18

Singaporean & Malaysian English

Onomastics: What’s in name?

Lecture/Q&A

 

 

 

 onomastics

 Invitation to view Singaporean English PPT was sent to the class Yahoo! Group.

 

Week 7

10/20-10/25

Video Conference with international student-participants of WE

Student-conference

Review video lectures (Singaporean & Malaysian English) and prepare discussion questions.

Week 8

10/27-11/1

Indian English

 

 

Lecture/Q&A

 

 

Read: Malcolm X. Coming to an awareness of language, p. 20

 

malcolmx, powerpoint

MalcolmX, videos

 

Week 9

11/3-11/8

Midterm

Onomastics Project Presentation

 

 

 

 

Week 10

11/10-11/15

Language_Policy

 

Language_Policy_in_Taiwan

 

HK, Chinese, Taiwanese English

Direction for English Language Education

Lecture/Q&A

 

 

Watch Video Lecture: Direction for English Language Education

 

Project_Themes

 

MOE_recruitment

Week 11

11/17-11/22

Video Conference with international student-participants of WE

Student-conference

Review video lectures (HK, Chinese, Taiwanese English) and prepare discussion questions

Week 12

11/24-11/29

Language use differs across cultures

miscommunication

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 13

12/1-12/6

Video Conference with international student-participants of WE

Student-conference

Review video lectures (Korean, Japanese English) and prepare discussion questions

Week 14

12/8-12/13

 

English Language Policies Project Presentation

 

Project_Themes

 

 

 

 

 

Week 15

12/15-12/20

Politeness or Directness

 

 

Read: Clutter, p. 265

Week 16

12/22-12/27

The truth about lying, pp. 172-178

 

 

  

Week 17

12/29-1/3

Skit presentation to illustrate one situation in which communication styles are different between Taiwan and another country

 

 

Use your observations from the student-conference sessions

Week 18

1/5-1/10

Final Paper Due 

 

Final Project

50% Skit

50% Essay

 

 

Topic: Communication strategies/Miscommunications

 

 

 

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