Date:    Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:53:50 -0500
<br>From:    Beverly Flanigan  flanigan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Last call for classvideo input
<br>
<br>At 12:11 PM 3/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
<br> This Monday I need to get to work on writing up my findings but I'd like to
<br> request once more the assistance of all of you on ADS-L (or as many of you
<br> as have time to help) with the next issue of the ADS Teaching Newsletter
<br> (an insert in the NADS, appearing once or twice a year).  Thanks to all of
<br> you who have responded so far.   I'd still like to know from as many more
<br> of you as possible what VIDEOS you've actually been using in your
<br> language-related classes.
<br> 
<br> If you are pressed for time, you can just fill in the following template:
<br> 
<br> TITLEs OF YOUR COURSEs:  Intro. to the Study of Language, Language in
<br>America, Language and Culture, Language of Women and Men, Sociolinguistics,
<br>Language Acquisition (six taught most often by me!).
<br> 
<br> STUDENT LEVEL:  (high school, college freshman, sophomore-junior, senior,
<br> graduate)  First four are undergraduate, last two are graduate-level.
<br> 
<br> ***and for EACH video you use:
<br>
<br>We use so many videos I won't be able to recall them all.  Below are a few;
<br>if I have time later, I'll fill in publ. data, but for now I'll just list
<br>them.
<br>
<br> TITLEs:  "American Tongues," "Baby Talk," "Language," "Genie," "Can Chimps
<br>Talk?," "In Search of the First Language," "The Human Language" (3 parts,
<br>use excerpts), and "The Brain"--all used in part or whole for undergraduate
<br>Intro. to Study of Language course.
<br>        Several parts of "The Story of English" (Black English and Pidgins and
<br>Creoles esp.); video copies of a Dick Cavett series on Black English,
<br>Standard AmEng, and political jargon--all used in Language in America course.
<br>        Videos on Franz Boas and a series on "Going International," plus
<br>student-made videos on gesture and body language--for Lang. and Culture.
<br>        Several of the above and Chomsky giving a lecture at MIT on language
<br>acquisition--for Lang. Acquisition course.
<br>        "American Tongues," "Black English" and P&C videos from "Story of
<br> English"
<br>series, Labov giving a LAVIS II lecture on divergence in Southern AmEng
<br>phonology, and a BBC/Gumperz video on "Cross Talk"--for Sociolinguistics.
<br>        "Men, Women, and Language" (a Penn State video), "He Said/She Said" (D.
<br>Tannen in PBS interview), and a short video on "Language in the Workplace"
<br>(D. Tannen in 20/20 interview)--all for Lang. of Women and Men course.
<br>
<br>        (Obviously many of these are from the PBS "Nova" series; others have
<br> been
<br>taped off the home screen or purchased from catalogs.  Ironically, I
<br>haven't seen "Yeah, You Rite" yet!  Nor am I including the many video
<br>series we use in our TEFL methodology courses.)
<br>
<br> PUBLISHER: (the production company, if you know it)
<br> ORDERING INFO: (where the video is ordered from, and the price if you know
<br> it)
<br> SUBJECT MATTER: (in a couple of sentences, what's on the tape).--Most of
<br>these are familiar to our readers, I suspect.
<br> 
<br> IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE MORE TIME, I'd appreciate hearing from you, in a
<br> paragraph or three, what scenes you particularly call your students'
<br> attention to, and why those scenes are important to your teaching goals in
<br> the course.
<br> 
<br> I'll be compiling your responses until March 23 (at which point I have to
<br> write them up and send them on to NADS).    I hope you can find a little
<br> time between now and then to respond.
<br> 
<br>  I particularly like to thank Bethany Dumas for giving me the inspiration
<br> for this topic with her recent post about "Yeah you rite!"
<br> 
<br> Keep in in mind too, that you and any of your colleagues are invited to
<br> submit items to the _Teaching Newsletter_ any time.   In the past we've
<br> published reviews of textbooks and other classroom supplements, as well as
<br> short 
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<br>From: Automatic digest processor (3/20/98)
<br>To: Recipients of ADS-L digests
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<br>         ADS-L Digest - 18 Mar 1998 to 19 Mar 1998             98-03-20 00:00:10
<br>There are 15 messages totalling 462 lines in this issue.
<br>
<br>Topics of the day:
<br>
<br>  1. "bored of" (4)
<br>  2. herfers, herfs, and crawls
<br>  3. arbitrariness of derivational morphology (2)
<br>  4. seeking textbook advice (4)
<br>  5. ADS at SAMLA Call for Papers
<br>  6. FBI, voice identifcaiton, and dialect
<br>  7. OF, the universal preposition
<br>  8. Help - I'm drowning
<br>
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<br>Date:    Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:33:12 -0800
<br>From:    Devon Coles  dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HORIZON.BC.CA 
<br>Subject: Re: "bored of"
<br>
<br>Lately on campus I've heard a number of young students use the phrase "bored
<br>of" as in "I'm bored of this course." It's really been driving me up the
<br>wall. But even worse, today I overhead someone say, "I'm sorry. Are you
<br>embarrassed of my question?"
<br>Is this just a local thing (British Columbia), or has anyone else noticed
<br>this odd use of "of"?
<br>Cheers,
<br>Devon Coles
<br>dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]horizon.bc.ca
<br>