Course Schedule

In this course, issues in L2 literacy extend beyond pedagogy by examining a wide range of theoretical and research issues. Students discuss how to bridge research and practice, create reading and writing activities grounded in theory and empirical investigations.

Topics include speech synthesis, speech recognition, and other speech technologies. This course gives students background for a career in the speech technology industry. Graduate students will do extra readings, extra assignments, and have an extra presentation. Their final project must constitute original work in a speech technology.

Examine field research in communities and schools with a special emphasis on the uses of language and literacy; course readings and assignments will help participants identify research questions in natural settings and acquire a range of methods to investigate them; various data collection techniques and approaches to analysis will be explored