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September 11, 2000

Greetings to SPAN/FREN 400/500:

We have several important announcements.  The first may be very pleasant, and the others will be of use also.

1.  We will not hold class this Thursday, because of Convocation.  I did not know that there would be picture-taking after convocation, and then a picnic, and so we will not try to have class with all that going on.  However, not having class will not be a frequent ocurrence, so don't get too excited.

2.  Please turn in your article review and your "reflections" on your classroom observations by sometime this Friday.  You can e-mail them to me, or put them in my mailbox.

3.  Watch for further e-mails about what we'll do for the following week.  We WILL have the quiz we spoke about, on Chapter 1 (details) and Chapter 2 (reading knowledge); if there is any other assignment for the following week, I will let you know in a few days.

4.  The syllabus on the web page will be updated and on-line in a few days.  It will also have each week's assignments.  I'll let you know when it's up.

5.  Bill Maxey has sent us some updated info on the Cultural Activities at VCU:

"Humphrey Tonkin will be there September 14 and 15. On Thursday, he'll
speak about the announced topic, and on Friday, 7:30 p.m., Student
Commons Ballroom A, he'll speak about language teaching in a rapidly
globalizing society, or some such."

"John DeMado will be there on September 30 and the Mayan literature person on
November 30, if I got everything down correctly. The woman I spoke with
didn't have the details on those. She did say that there was no charge
for anything: "Oh, no. We just need warm bodies to come." (Really
excites you, doesn't it?) She did go out of her way to mention Carlos
Fuentes, however."

So please try to go to any of these that sound interesting to you.  We will try to get more details on the John DeMado workshop, because it really does relate directly to this class (Teaching for Proficiency).  We'll try to get more info.

Saludos,
Dr. Lily Anne Goetz
 

Info. on VCU Cultural Activities:

John DeMado's workshop on "Foreign Language Proficiency Teaching" is on Saturday, September 30.

The Theater Troupe of the University of Murcia will present Tirso di Molina's "Marta la Piadosa" on March 14 and 15.
 

Hi, colleagues,
For next Thursday's class, we talked about the assignments but we are going to reduce somewhat the burden:

Please study chapter 2 again, and be prepared for a quiz.  We will discuss the National and Va. Standards further, so remember to be prepared to talk about how they differ or are similar.  We will discuss the Teach and Reflect and Case Studies for Chapter 2 (which form part of your notebook, and don't need to be typed for your portfolio).

Please do read through chapter 3, as we discussed, and do Episode One, Task A of Teach and Reflect, and also Episode Two.  You don't need to do either of the case studies yet.

Please do bring your next Article Review to class.  We will discuss them, your observations, and interview of a teacher.  We will also discuss the other requirements which will be due later in the semester.  And you'll have the rest of the syllabus, finally.  Have a nice weekend!
Saludos,
Dra. Goetz

Colegas,
The following books will be on reserve in the library (after about 5pm today).  They are in the bibliography in your syllabus.  The rest of the books in the bibliography should be in the stacks.  If you look for books in the bibliography and they are not in the library, please let me know.  See you Thurs.
Dra. Goetz

Allen, Edward David, et. al.  Classroom Techniques:  Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language.

Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, et. al.  Beyond Methods:  Components of Second Language Teacher Education.

Berko-Gleason, Jean.  The Development of Language, 2nd ed.

Bernhardt, Elizabeth B.  Reading Development in a Second Language:  Theoretical, Empirical and Classroom Perspectives.

Brown, H. Douglas.  Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, 2nd ed.

Harper, Jane, et. al.  The Coming of Age of the Profession:  Issues and Emerging Ideas for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Hatch, Evelyn Marcussen.  Psycholinguistics:  A Second Language Perspective.

*Krashen, Stephen D.  The Power of Reading:  Insights from the Research.
(on reserve for our class AND for an EDUC class)

Musumeci, Diane.  Breaking Tradition:  An Exploration of the Historical Relationship between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching.

Omaggio-Hadley, Alice.  Teaching Language in Context.

Savignon, Sandra J.  Communicative Competence:  Theory and Classroom Practice.  2nd ed.

Hi, 400/500 Colleagues,
I want to remind you of several upcoming events:

1.  This Thursday, those who will be going together to Richmond will meet at 4:30 at the fountain.  If you have not signed up on our sheet, but want to go, please tell me asap.  If you are meeting us in Richmond, we will be at the Casa Grande on MIDLOTHIAN (not Broad St.) at 6:00 (we expect to be there by then, anyway).  It is across from Johnston-Willis Hospital, next to an Arby's, in the bldg. that used to be the Jewish Mother.  We will go from there to the address by Carlos Fuentes.

2.  If you are not going to the address by Carlos Fuentes, you will meet and discuss Chapter 8, pages 180-210, and the Teach and Reflect Episode One and Case Study Two.  I will leave some textbooks (to use with Episode One) on the bookcase in the classroom.  You will report back to us at the next class meeting.  Gracias.

3.  Good deal:  Please remember that FLAVA is this weekend, Friday and Sat.  You can go both days or just one.  You can register there if you have not pre registered.  Please try to go if at all possible!!  It is one of the greatest opportunities you have for contact with teachers and ideas.  If you attend FLAVA but couldn't go to Carlos Fuentes, you may omit meeting on
Thursday to discuss Chap. 8 OR you can have a low quiz grade changed to 100 (if you also meet and discuss Chap 8).  If you go to BOTH FLAVA and Carlos Fuentes, I will change a low quiz grade to 100.

4.  Please remember:  This Monday, Oct. 30 by 5pm, your one-page proposal and bibliography for your research project is due.  These can be placed in my plastic box, my mailbox, or e-mailed (attachment in Word--so I can see the format of your bibliography--don't forget, it MUST be in an acceptable format, MLA, APA or Chicago Style).

5.  Please remember, Friday, Nov. 3, a week from now, the draft of your Unit Plan is due, with the first 3 days' lesson plans, including materials, descriptions of activities, etc., as if you were really going to teach.  You should bring what you have to next Thursday's class and we will discuss the plans.

6.  During our next class, Thursday, Nov. 2, be prepared for:

Discussion of FLTeach issues
Group reporting on Chapter 8
John DeMado highlights (from Bill Maxey)
Discussion of Article Reviews and Observations (due)
Discussion of research project proposals
Discussion of Unit Plan drafts and lesson plans
Discussion from the SpanishUS.com activities--bring your comments from long
ago, please.
Discussion of Chapter 9, with either Episode One OR Two, AND Case Study One.
BRING a disquette--we will go to the lab and start creating your web
portfolio.
We will continue to follow the syllabus as planned, BUT we will not have
quizzes on Chapters 10, 11, 12 (we WILL have a quiz on Chapter 9, as
planned on November 9).
We will be doing much more discussion of our projects and plans and less
discussion of the chapters.  Be prepared!

Gracias, Merci, Danke,
(Bill, let us know how you say Thank you in Esperanto),
See you Thursday,
Lily

The Longwood Library now has access to the full-text of the Modern Language Journal through Ingenta at http://www.ingenta.com.  Access is only available on the Longwood University campus.  There are plans in the works to allow remote access through a proxy server, but that won't be available for several months.  The Modern Language Journal is also available full-text in Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select, one of our subscription databases (available in the library).  Access to this is also limited to campus users.
See you Thurs.
Lily Goetz

Bonjour, Saludos,

1.  Your Unit Plans with my comments will be in the plastic box outside my office door as I do them, for you to pick up.  Please do read the comments so that you can incorporate the suggestions into your final Plan.  Remember that the lesson plans are YOUR SCRIPT, not my bureaucratic paperwork, so the wording should be whatever helps YOU to carry out the activities, not so much an explanation for an outside person.  Please remember to follow the instructions in your handout and include all of the items it lists.  Also remember that eventually you will be putting your Unit Plan and Lesson Plans into your electronic portfolio.  Bring your Unit Plan in progress to class next Thursday, and we will share and discuss what you have so far and what you will be adding.

2.  Next Thursday we will have our last quiz, on Chapter 9.

3.  Next Thursday, we will also discuss Chap. 10, and Episode One and Case Study One., and skim thru Chapter 11, Assessment.  AND we WILL discuss those SpanishUS.com activities, because we want to see if any of them would be acceptable in OUR lesson plans!  So bring your old comments and ideas about those.  AND we will have an FLTeach report from someone (who¿).

4.  Next Thursday,  we will start to create your Portfolio:

Bring a diskette, and bring on diskette your article reviews, observations, a statement of your teaching philosophy or goals, and a resume.  If you have those in Word, save them on your diskette using the "Save as Web Page" option.

In the meantime, if you haven't looked around the English 405 website for ideas, please do so (go to our class web page and click on English 405 under the On-line Portfolio paragraph).  Especially check out Gold's portfolio, and Lundsford's in that web site.  Look at their personal statements or introductions; you will also do one, but we intend ours to be more professional.

Here's a list of what employers think of as useful portfolio items:

Resume, including experience, awards, important courses
Unit plans and lesson plans
Statements of teaching style and strategies
Experience with technology
Assessment instruments
writing samples (article reviews)
Personal statement of goals
Observation feedback (people observing you teach)
Reflective comments on your teaching (or on others' teaching)
  (these would be your article reviews and observations)
Community Service
Photograph

They also look for:
Creativity, Innovation, Organization, Good Writing Skills, Enthusiasm, Achievement, Leadership, Knowledge base, Scholarship.

5.  Next Friday, Nov. 10, your outline and bibliography are due for your research project; this means that you will have taken most of your notes from your sources and organized them and thought about how you want to present your topic.  Please remember, that you are not just reporting about something, or examining or discussing.  You are going to argue a point, give evidence  to convince us of your position.  At this point you should start to think about a title for your project, which will captivate our attention and make us want to read your project.   Please use the assignment sheet to follow the guidelines for writing.

6.  There will be no class on November 23 (Thanksgiving) and on November 30 (I will be in Spain).  So we will re-order some of the things on the syllabus:  on December 7, the last day of class, we will do all of the things originally listed for Week 14 (November 30).  So mark your syllabus with this change, please.  The Presentations of Research Projects, originally scheduled for Week 15 (December 7), will be moved to the day of the exam.  We will have an abbreviated exam, approximately 1 hour, and will use the rest of the time for the presentations.  Let me know if there is any confusion about this.

That's all, folks,
chao,
Lily Anne Goetz

Hi, 400/500 Colleagues,
I would like to take a class picture to put on our website for our portfolio section.  So this is notification that Thursday, we will take our picture (in case that knowledge influences what you wear or something).  Also, since we will be working in the lab on our portfolios, don't forget to bring along a diskette, your article review on disk, observations, any
pictures on disk you would like to put in your portfolio, a resume, etc. See my last e-mail to you for all the details
(http://www.longwood.edu/staff/lgoetz/span400/E-mail.html).  Saludos,
Dra. Goetz

November 11, 2000
Colegas in Span 461/530 and Span/Fren 400/500,

Since I am still receiving some bibliographies without any correct style, attached are examples of the correct formats, for books and for articles; notice the difference in treatment for more than one author of a work, for dates, capitalization in titles, punctuation.  There are other things besides books and articles to document, such as internet sites, newspaper articles, essays in collections, etc., so you should check the guidelines for whichever style you are using.  If you are already using a correct format, just delete this, and thanks!  If you have not been using correct format, please see the attachment and do not hand in anything that does not conform to one of these, please, because I will not read whatever it is and you will get a zero.  It is only a matter of attention to detail, which is a necessary thing for success in any field.  Gracias, Merci,
Dra. Goetz

MLA Style is required for Spanish 461/530.  For Span/Fren 400/500, you may use any of the styles below, but you must be consistent.

(All styles use “hanging indent” paragraph form—in Word, open the “Format” menu at the top menu bar, click paragraph, and choose “special” and click on “hanging”.  Use the “enter” key only at the end of each entry, not at the end of each line.)  The examples below are not in "hanging indent" format, because I can't find how to make Netscape Composer do that for the web page.  "Hanging Indent" means the first line of each entry is at the left margin, and the other lines are indented 5 spaces.

(Notice differences in capitalization in titles, the order of authors’ names, placement of dates, punctuation.  Normally, titles of books in Spanish are not capitalized except for the first word.)
 

Díaz Plaja, Fernando, y William W. Cressey.  La España que sobrevive.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University
 

Press, 2000.

Woolard, Kathryn.  Double Talk:  Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia.  Stanford, CA:

 
Stanford University Press, 1989.

Yano, Y., M.H. Long, and S. Ross.  “The Effects of Simplified and Elaborated Texts on Foreign Language

 
Reading Comprehension.”  Language Learning 44 (1994):  189-219.

Díaz Plaja, Fernando and William W. Cressey.  2000.  La España que sobrevive.  Washington, DC:

Georgetown University Press.

Stanford University Press.

Reading Comprehension.”  Language Learning 44: 189-219.

Díaz Plaja, Fernando, & Cressey, William W.  (2000).  La España que sobrevive.  Washington, DC:

Georgetown University Press.

Stanford University Press.

reading comprehension.  Language Learning, 44, 189-219.

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