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8 years ago, I sat in a
Focus on Faculty presentation about the syllabus. I took home a lot of good
messages about not only how to design a syllabus, but how a syllabus can
relate to teaching and learning.
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My hope today is that I can
help you begin a similar journey in using your syllabus not only a tool for
disseminating course information to your students, but also as a tool for
reflective teaching.
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First a bit about myself. I
am in the department of Applied Linguistics. My major role within that
department is to teach courses on language acquisition, first and second,
theory and language structure. My research focuses on language acquisition,
in particular psycholinguistics.
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I have an interest in
pedagogy, but it’s not a focus of my work. It’s mostly for personal interest
and to improve my own teaching. (my disclaimer) What I’m sharing with you
today, then, has come about as part of my journey into teaching and the
scholarship of teaching.
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