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English for Academic Teaching Purposes Fall 2007

WEEK 1: Introductions

October 2, 2007

• Icebreaker: Your personal recipe
• Discussion: Teaching for learning in Higher education
• Course organization and planning
  • Student learning
  • Course planning
  • The Kolb Adult Learning Cycle
  • A systematic approach to course planning
  • Bloom's Taxonomy (see Major Categories from the University of Washington)
• Learning outcomes
  • Guidelines and resources
  • Practice: Write 2 outcomes for our EATP course

October 4, 2007

• Pretest: Listening, Structure, and Reading modified from a TOEFL PBT practice test

WEEK 2.1: Syllabus co-construction

October 9, 2007

• Assessing learner needs: Survey Monkey Questionnaire
• Writing learner outcomes
• EATP course planning
• Syllabus review
  • Analysis of other syllabi
  • Homework: Submit one of your syllabi to Jennifer for review

WEEK 2.2: Active Listening & Speaking

October 11, 2007

• Syllabus Presentation
• Assignments: Dictionary on Disk and Participant Led Academic Discussions
• Active speaking and listening
  • What is active speaking?
  • What is effective/active listening?
    • Self-assessment listening inventory
    • Tips and suggestions
• HomeFUN: Think about what you might like to share as your PLAD and come with ideas on Tuesday

WEEK 3: Discussion Leadership

October 16, 2007

• Dictionary on Disk Quiz 1
• Maintaining a conversation
  • A closer look at small talk and a quiz
  • Conversational starters and some practice
  • Conversational Terrorism (see this article by Dean and Marshall VanDruff)
• Participant Led Academic Discussions conversations and planning
• PLAD: Perspectives on Higher Education in the U.S. by Jennifer

October 18, 2007

• PLAD Organization
• Benefits of discussion
• Ground rules for discussion
• Listening: Failure is a good thing from National Public Radio

WEEK 4: Giving and Asking for Opinions

October 23, 2007

• Dictionary on Disk Quiz 2
• Listening for details: Obesity and social networks on ABC Radio National
• EATP Ground Rules for Discussion 2007
• Sharing opinions in small groups
• Language of the Floor I: Sharing Opinions
• Homework: Please choose one of the following articles to read in preparation for Thursday's class:
  • The Future Calling In Estonia by Anne Applebaum, Tuesday, October 16, 2007, The Washington Post
  • Tartu faces number crunch by Joel Alas, Sep 19, 2007, The Baltic Times
  • Estonians need a lesson too, claims think tank by Joel Alas, Sep 12, 2007, The Baltic Times

October 25, 2007

• Language of the Floor: Asking Questions
• Discussion questions (see A Questioning Toolkit from the Technology Journal)
• Forming questions and holding mini-discussions based on the following articles to read in preparation for Thursday's class:
  • The Future Calling In Estonia by Anne Applebaum, Tuesday, October 16, 2007, The Washington Post
  • Tartu faces number crunch by Joel Alas, Sep 19, 2007, The Baltic Times
  • Estonians need a lesson too, claims think tank by Joel Alas, Sep 12, 2007, The Baltic Times

WEEK 5: More language for discussion

October 30, 2007

• Agreeing and disagreeing during a discussion
• News Summaries

November 1, 2007

• Interrupting
  • Listen for interruptions during an NPR roudtable discussion: Historically black colleges
  • List and determine register usage
  • Practice with your teacher
  • Practice with a partner
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Heli and Rodolphe

WEEK 6: Discussion strategies

November 6, 2007

• Dictionary on Disk Quiz 4
• Diplomatic Language
  • English as a Second Language from Harper's Magazine
• Confirming understanding
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Ester and Marko

November 8, 2007

• Listening to a discussion
• Organizing the discussion
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Clotilde and Renate

WEEK 7: Discussion wrap-up

November 13, 2007

• Dictionary on Disk Quiz 5
• Closing a presentation
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Gunnar
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Ave and Gaabriel

November 15, 2007

• DOD 5 continued practice
• The language of Suggestions
• Participant Led Academic Discussion with Mari

WEEK 8: Paraphrasing and summarizing

November 20, 2007

• DOD 6
• Lecturette guidelines and sign-up
• Summarizing and paraphrasing
  • practice with quotations about winter
  • game with Estonian idioms

November 22, 2007

• Happy Thanksgiving - No class today!

WEEK 9: Building effective lecturettes

November 27, 2007

• DOD 7
• Quotations about or by Estonians — Paraphrasing activity
• News Summaries
• Follow-up: Word origin of "hooligan"

November 29, 2007

• “Lecture: A process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the student, without passing through the minds of either.”
• How to give a bad talk
• Guidelines for a stellar talk
• Impromptu speeches practicing features of good lecturettes (5 minutes - 3 minutes - 1 minute)

WEEK 10: Visual aides & lecturettes

December 4, 2007

• Lecturette: Gaabriel Gender Equality – stupid reality or real foolishness?
• PowerPoint Pitfalls
• Death by PowerPoint by Alexei Kapterev
• 10 Commandments of PowerPoint from power-points.blogspot.com
• PowerPoint: The good, the bad, and the ugly from Pamela Bagley and David Izzo, Biomedical Libraries at Dartmouth College

December 6, 2007

• Giving constructive criticism
• Lecturettes: Ester and Mari

WEEK 11: Lecturettes abound

December 11, 2007

• Lecturettes: Ave, Urve, Marko, and Andres

December 13, 2007

• Lecturettes: Clotilde, Piia, and Renate

Week 12: Holiday celebration

December 18, 2007

• Holiday party at 18:00 in Paabel 225
• Movie It's a Wonderful Life
• Socializing and fun

WINTER BREAK

Continuation course resumes in February!