A key component of the course was asking students to really pay attention to the language that was used around them every day. Students
kept a notebook of ''Daily Language Observations'' where they recorded
things about
language that made them think, question, or laugh. We frequently began class by having several students share an interesting observation that they had made the day before. At the end of the
semester, students chose one of their language observations and designed
a research project relating to the topic (example topics: awkward
elevator silences, bilingualism's impact on student GPA, how magazines
that target women differ in their use of adjectives from magazines that
target men).
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