Course Description
In this courses, we will examine recent studies done in the field of second language acquisition. We will look at studies done in both naturalistic settings and in classroom settings to see what the effect of instruction might be. Finally, we will consider the possible usefulness of such research to foreign language teachers and how knowledge of these theories might affect the way we present material to our students.
Instructor: Ruth Lanouette, associate professor of German
Ruth Lanouette is a teacher and scholar of and about language who offers courses in the German department and in the linguistics program, which she directs. A member of the Lawrence faculty since 1992, Lanouette earned her doctorate in German linguistics at Princeton University. Lanouette teaches introduction to language, historical linguistics, second language acquisition, and the English language, in additon to her regular classes of Freshman Studies, German literature, and various levels of the German language sequence. She has served as chair of the German department and the interdepartmental Foreign Language Coalition.
