Course Number
320
Workshop Title
Breaking Down Academic Language: A Focus on Oral Language Discourse
Prerequisite Course
210, 220A
Workshop Presenter
Bridget Erickson
Workshop Length
2 hours
Min/Max Class Size
4 to 30
Target Audience
all staff engaged in spoken dialogue with students
Workshop Objectives
This course focuses on the speaking and listening patterns of academic and social conversations. By dissecting their own conversational patterns, participants learn and apply strategies to develop students’ conversational skills as a way to foster academic language and thought. Traditional cooperative learning strategies are re-analyzed to include explicit teaching of the expected academic discourse patterns.
Objectives:
320
Workshop Title
Breaking Down Academic Language: A Focus on Oral Language Discourse
Prerequisite Course
210, 220A
Workshop Presenter
Bridget Erickson
Workshop Length
2 hours
Min/Max Class Size
4 to 30
Target Audience
all staff engaged in spoken dialogue with students
Workshop Objectives
This course focuses on the speaking and listening patterns of academic and social conversations. By dissecting their own conversational patterns, participants learn and apply strategies to develop students’ conversational skills as a way to foster academic language and thought. Traditional cooperative learning strategies are re-analyzed to include explicit teaching of the expected academic discourse patterns.
Objectives:
- Participants will identify oral language discourse patterns in social and academic conversations.
- Participants will build a collection of activities to teach academic discourse patterns.
- Participants will write oral language objectives that align to the content standards and objectives of the curriculum they teach.
