Proseminar in Applied Linguistics

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This team-taught seminar introduces PhD students to the scholarly areas and research perspectives in Applied Linguistics represented by department faculty. APLNG 580 Proseminar in Applied Linguistics (1)This team-taught pro-seminar is the cornerstone of the PhD program in Applied Linguistics. Its aims are to foster an intellectual community among incoming PhD students and department faculty and to provide the students with an overview of the scholarly expertise and research perspectives in Applied Linguistics represented by department faculty. The areas to be covered include: second and foreign language and literacy development and pedagogy; technology and language learning; language testing and assessment; language policy and planning; language uses in community, workplace, professional and academic settings from local, national, and international perspectives; language and identity; language and health; sociocultural theory; discourse and conversation analysis; and corpus linguistics. This is a required course for those entering the PhD program in Applied Linguistics and will be offered every fall. The enrollment will depend on the number of admitted students to the PhD program with a maximum number of 10. Through participation in discussions with individual faculty members, and readings when appropriate, it is expected that students will become familiar with 1) the scholarly expertise of the participating faculty members and 2) key concepts and research perspectives associated with their areas of specialization in the field of Applied Linguistics. Evaluation of student learning includes completion and discussion of readings. The department's Director of Graduate Studies will be responsible for scheduling the weekly meetings, for collecting feedback from individual faculty members on student contributions/performance and for assigning grades to students.