INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS (ENG 519)
Winter/Spring 2001
A Userfriendly Course
Questions? Comments? Please contact me at aschramm@gw.hamline.edu
If you are curious about what I look like, click here for a photo of me. This picture was taken by my daughter while playing around with a digital camera last winter.
Our starting point (called the 'homepage') contains the following items:
1) Being Able to
Move Around
As a reminder, let me go over a few basic conventions you will need
to know when you use the course materials provided on the web. When I want
you to go to another web page, you need to click (i.e. press the
mouse button) where it says click here or on the specially
marked text referring to that page. Anything that takes you to another
place (either another page or a different part of a page) normally appears
in blue or purple and is underlined. For example, to use this link to take
you to a sample page click on sample page or
on click here.
Similarly, sometimes I will ask you to "jump" to another part of the same web page. Such requests mean that you need to click on the link as well referring to that part of the page (Go ahead and try it now by clicking on the "click" earlier in the sentence). Now we are ready to look at other pieces of information you need to know to take this course.
2) The Syllabus
The next item I have on my agenda is the syllabus. I will give you
an overview of the syllabus later in the Introduction section of
the course. Here I just want to give you a point from where you can call
up and look at the syllabus any time. Click here
to
go to the syllabus.
3) The Lessons
This is a list of the lessons. From here you can directly go to any
of the lessons throughout the course by clicking on the link for the respective
lesson. Not all lessons will be in place from the start, though, as I will
keep adjusting while we go through the course. Click on the lesson below
during each respective week!
Samples of journals (sample1, sample2) and reports (sample1, sample2) can be found by clicking on the respective links.
4) Online Conferencing
(FirstClass)
In this course we don't have regular classroom meetings and interactions
as in a regular on-campus course. To give us all an option to interact
with each other nevertheless, I have included a conferencing component
in the course called "FirstClass". It is a place where we can "meet" to
conduct group work, discuss topics, or ask questions. Within FirstClass
I have created two folders called Announcements and Chatting
respectively. Please go to Announcements at least 2-3 times a
week to check whether I or one of you has made an announcement or whether
one of your classmates has asked a question. This is our forum for getting
information to and from each other. So please make good use of it. Chatting
is for the informal kind of exchanges that go on in a classroom as well.
If you try to contact me, I will not check there! This is YOUR student
space.
Instructions explaining FirstClass were mailed to you. Take a little time to read them over when they arrive. Make sure to download the software from the CD-ROM before the first lesson in case you have trouble with it! Please note that you DO NOT need to register, before you can use FirstClass the first time; we have done that for you. Use your first initial plus full last name as login (e.g. aschramm) and esl7519 as password; if you have a hyphenated last name, use both parts but delete the hyphen and don't use a space (e.g. aschrammsehlbach). To practice using FirstClass and to get to know your classmates, please post your introduction as explained in the file "Personal Introductions" to be accessed by clicking here or under "Lessons" above.
5) Course Reader
Reading materials assigned in addition to the textbook will be accessible
from here. Please click
here to go to the instructions on how to access the online reader.
The password will be posted in the folder Announcements in our class
conference esl7519w2001.
6) Library Research
For general library access, please click
here or go to
http://web.hamline.edu/libraries/bush.html
For the library research in connection with the research project, please
follow these
instructions:
To directly go to the library instructions
for the course, click on this link:
http://web.hamline.edu/personal/kborowske/engl/intro_ling_rev.html;
or alternately
Go to the library home page at http://web.hamline.edu/libraries/bush.html,
click on "research guides" (at the bottom
of the page),
click on "course-related guides,"
click on SLTL,
click on "linguistics for language teachers"
The blue part of this guide is general instructions. The rest of it
has to do with specific
databases. Note the bullet near the top, "Electronic Document Delivery."
Under "click
here" is the first attempt at some kind of procedure.
Space to Jump to:
This would be the text in a different part of a lesson that I asked you to jump to. Now you can go back to where you just came from by clicking here.
Updated last: 01/15/02
© Andreas Schramm and Hamline University
