Final Grades

Final Grades for the semester have been uploaded to the ADACAD System of the School of Arts and Science.

1. Check your grades and make sure you have all the grades for the semester. (if you have a question regarding one or more of your grades, please send me an e-mail ASAP informing me what the situation is. If it requires you to talk to me, you may come on Monday, July 4).

2. According to a disposition from the head of the department, final grades will not be posted in the hall of the department, just go ahead to the ADACAD system.

3. "Examen de Suficiencia" will take place on Monday, July 4, room IF-3, at 8:00AM.

a. according to the law, you must have 5.0 to 5.9 to take the exam

b. if you qualify for this, please send me an e-mail letting me know you will come and I will make the copy of the exam for you. If you do not inform me about you coming, I will not make a copy and you have to make the copy yourself the day of the exam.

4. Exam papers and essays will no be handed back until Monday, July 18. If you want to come and take a look at it, please send me an e-mail and I will wait for you.

Examen de Suficiencia News (All Groups)

Groups: 01, 04 and 05

The "Examen de Suficiencia" will take place on Monday, July 4, at 8:00AM, in classroom IF-3.

Last Presentations

First Language Acquisition

http://www.4shared.com/file/cRqIciOAba/Unit_4A_First_Language_Acquisi.html


Second Language Learning

http://www.4shared.com/file/dwkX2ZRxba/Unit_4B_Second_Language_Learni.html

Language and Culture

 http://www.4shared.com/file/VjiuWHe2ce/Unit_3C_Language_and_Culture__.html

about the essay

1. One word of caution about "freeloaders"

We know who they are. We know how they work (if ever). We know what they expect. We know how they extort their classmates to include them in homework they have not done anything to help. NOT A BIG SECRET ! So, if you are tired of carrying people like this over (you are not helping them, so don´t feel bad about it) .......

if you by chance happen to have someone like this in your group, just leave this person out of the essay assignment and refer them to me.

free·load·er

ˈfrēˌlōdər/

noun

informal

plural noun: freeloaders

a person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return.

check this:  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freeloader

2. I am asking for your help because all the quizzes and exams I had to pay from my own pocket. I have done this because some security concern reasons. So if you can pitch in with a quarter ( 25¢) , please bring it the day of the exam. Thank you

End of the Semester Activities

1. Last day of class

Group 01 Thursday, June 16

Group 04 Wednesday, June 15

Group 05---Tuesday, June 21

2. Final Exam

Groups 01 and 04---Monday, June 27

Group 05---Tuesday, June 28

(bring your own liquid paper and pen. NO BORROWING IS ALLOWED).

3. Final Grades

Final grades will be ready on Monday, July 4

4. Extra-credit Exam

Tuesday, July 5 at 8:00AM

5. Research Paper

Guidelines:

a. Make groups of 3 members each.

b. Paper will be hand written (legible penmanship is required).

c. Due date: Monday, June 27

d. Avoid plagiarism (suspected actions will disqualify entire paper and members of the group).

e. paper includes a folder, title page and fastener.

f. Topic: one of the contents covered during the semester on Linguistics.

INTRODUCTION

• State the research question you are trying to answer
• State why the question is important
• State the issues involved
• State why we should be concerned with resolving whatever issues are involved
• State how answering the question will help us
• State the implications and consequences of dealing with or resolving the issues involved

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

• Identify who has tried to answer the question before by doing the following:
• Summarize how each of the sources presents and deals with the subject
• Explain how each source presents and deals with its findings or results
• Explain the relevancy of each source to your research question
• State what you learned from each of your sources
• State in what way(s) each source contributes to answering your research question

DISCUSSION

• State your answer to your research question
• State how and elaborate on how, explain how, illustrate how each of the sources you previously reviewed help you answer your research question
• State what questions about your topic you still have that your sources may not have answered

CONCLUSIONS*

• State the conclusions regarding your topic you have reached from having surveyed, interpreted, evaluated the literature
• Indicate how each of the sources have contributed to your conclusions (and clearly, accurately, correctly document those sources within your text)
• State the implications of your conclusions
• State what might be the possible consequences of your conclusions
• State the social significance these implications and consequences might have

DOCUMENTATION*

• On a separate page, include a section labeled References which provides the full publication information for all the sources you used in your paper
• You should have a MINIMUM of three (3) sources for your paper
• Not meeting this minimum requirement of three (3) sources will lead to a lower evaluation of your paper for each missing source
• Use APA format for documenting your sources

Activities Week May 30, 31 and June 1 , 2

1. The Midterm Exam will take place on:

Groups 01 and 04  Monday 30

Group 05 Tuesday 31

* Please bring your own liquid paper and pen for the exam. "NO BORROWING WILL BE ALLOWED"

2. Language and Regional Variation
Link: http://www.4shared.com/file/3V1__hlDba/Unit_3A_Language_and_Regional_.html

3. Language and Social Variation
Link: http://www.4shared.com/file/eRf7X2Pjce/Unit_3B_Language_and_Social_Va.html

4. Language and Culture

Link: pending

Mid Term news

Due to recent finding related to the Mid-term, I regret to inform that  it has been nullified and a new exam will be rescheduled.



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r5HIgnSyyEJMVj553cEgeEuF7Mv17BQt80m4Qqcus1U/mobilebasic