EAP102B Spring 2021

Letter to Fran: Discussion

Speakers: Share resources

Concluding remarks on English learning strategies

Fill out course evaluations

Final paper due midnight Wed. May 12

Share interview questions about Saudi culture

Look at Amadasi and Holliday (2017) for key words

Speakers: Share recommended sources

Revision: More on audience and purpose

One more new word or phrase!

Read (and likely rewrite) beginning of your essay

Don’t forget about “Letter to Fran”!

Speakers: Share a source with us

Share observations and questions on Wadjda

Look at Amadasi and Holliday (2017) for audience and purpose

Revision: Thinking about audience and purpose

Speakers: Share recommended sources

Come up with interview questions about Saudi culture

Identify key concepts in Amadasi and Holliday (2017)

Get started on your final project!

Read “Letter to Fran,” come up with possible explanations

Speakers: Share a source with us

Follow up: Reflections on interview

Intro to Wadjda

Speakers: Summarize Gelfand readings

Finish discussion of Gelfand

Intro to Holliday & Amadasi (understanding “purpose”)

Looking forward: Grading, revision, and final project

Watch Wadjda

Preview Amadasi and Holliday (2017)

Read description of Intersections, choose direction for final project

Speakers: Share a source

Speakers & Discussion: Gelfand on “tight and loose cultures”

Interview with Maranda Cox

English task: Notice, record, & use one phrase

Essay 2 due Friday

Be ready to continue discussion on Gelfand

Bring observations on interview

Speakers: Wu You, Rachael, Kaige

English lesson: Make it matter to you

Revisit Osland & Bird

Speakers: Intro to Gelfand

Interview practice with Austin

English task: Notice, record, & use one phrase

Read Gelfand readings

Bring interview questions to next class

Update your “promising source” document

Essay 2 due Friday — get working on it!

Finish critical incident: “Left Out of the Conversation”

Speakers & Discussion: Behaviors in Boyhood

Intro to Essay 2

English task: Notice, record, & use one phrase

Read Essay 2 instructions

Identify one good source

Preview Gelfand readings

Come up with interview questions

Speakers: Kaige, Viviette, Tianji

English lesson: Check-in

Speaker summaries & Discussion: Osland & Bird (2000)

Critical incident: “Left Out of the Conversation”

English task: Notice, record, & use one phrase

Watch Boyhood

Boyhood writing exercise

Revisit Osland & Bird

Rank explanations for critical incident

Speakers: Xiaoyu, Rachael, Steven

English lesson: Check-in

Speaker summaries & Discussion: Hofstede & American Factory

Intro to Boyhood

English goal: Notice, record, & use one phrase

Read Osland & Bird (2000), write brief summary / response

Speakers: Rixin, Wu You, Xinyi

Start watching Boyhood

English lesson: Sources of “input”

Speaker summaries: Hofstede Ch. 3 + 4

Hofstede & American Factory: Discussion

Essay 1 due next class

English goal: Notice one phrase

Speakers: Freddie, Marcus, Jane

Be ready to continue our discussion

English lesson: Using feedback

Finish discussion of values, in-group/out-group, and social norms in American Factory

Go over essay prompt, discuss: Can “intercultural training” make a difference?

Speakers summarize Hofstede excerpts

Note: Class on Friday

Think: What are my sources for language?

Read Hofstede Ch. 3 & 4 excerpts, be ready to discuss

Speakers: TBD

English lesson: Identifying a specific focus

Speakers summarize Hofstede and Gelfand

Share examples from American Factory

Identify an area to focus on in your English study

Read Hofstede excerpts

Take World Values Survey

Explore the Hofstede Insights website

Short writing exercise

Speakers for next class: Tianji, Rixin, Xiaoyu

Share goals for English learning

New words & phrases

Intro to American Factory and Hofstede

Notice if you use your new word/phrase

Watch American Factory (3pm Friday)

Record 20 observations and 20 questions (due Saturday midnight)

Read Hofstede et al (2010) Ch. 1 & Gelfand (2018) Ch. 1 excerpt

Note connections between readings and American Factory

Intro to class

Learning about culture through film: observations on 《都挺好》 and Boyhood

Review: “summary-response”

Read Syllabus and Course Handbook

Writing Exercise #1: Summary-response to syllabus

(Review: Watch my video on summarizing)

Notice and use one new word or phrase

Plan time to attend American Factory viewing on Friday