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The presenter will describe a cross-cultural course, Language in Human Life, designed to meet several university needs: 1) To provide a course for non-majors that fulfills a long-standing gap in general education courses at the presenter’s institution that introduce students to linguistic thought, 2) to be a magnet course for speakers of English as an additional language in order to allow all students to learn about each others’ languages, and 3) to offer a linguistically accessible course for lower-proficiency users of English that is taught by an instructor with ESL expertise but that fulfills a university requirement for all students. Many U.S. colleges and universities offer general education courses in linguistics: Language and Mind, Language in Society, etc. More institutions are now serving the needs of multilingual learners of English by creating courses that draw on their expertise as multilingual students, allowing those institutions to move away from the still prevalent “def
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The presenter will describe a cross-cultural course, Language in Human Life, designed to meet several university needs: 1) To provide a course for non-majors that fulfills a long-standing gap in general education courses at the presenter’s institution that introduce students to linguistic thought, 2) to be a magnet course for speakers of English as an additional language in order to allow all students to learn about each others’ languages, and 3) to offer a linguistically accessible course for lower-proficiency users of English that is taught by an instructor with ESL expertise but that fulfills a university requirement for all students. Many U.S. colleges and universities offer general education courses in linguistics: Language and Mind, Language in Society, etc. More institutions are now serving the needs of multilingual learners of English by creating courses that draw on their expertise as multilingual students, allowing those institutions to move away from the still prevalent “def
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