Group Presentations: Jigsaw
Chapter 5 Section 3: Why Do Individual Languages Vary Among Places?
Learning Outcome: 1. Understand the ways that dialects vary. 2. Understand the distribution of principal US dialects. 3. Understand the challenges of distribution. 4. Understand how some countries embrace more than one language.
Chapter 5 Section 3: Why Do Individual Languages Vary Among Places?
Step 1. Teacher assigns group and group topic/section.
Group 1: English Dialects: American and British English
Group 2: English Dialect: Dialects in the United Kingdom
Group 3: U.S Dialects: Distribution of US Dialects
Group 4: U.S Dialects: African American English, Appalachian English, Creole Languages.
Group 5: Dialect or Language?: Dialects Become Languages: Catalan, Galician, Moldovan, Italy's Languages, Occitan.
Group 6: Dialect or Language?: Standardizing Languages
Group 7: Multilingual Places: Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria, Belgium
Step 2. Research your topic/section assigned to you. Use your text book, pages 164-171.
Step 3. Focus on Key ideas, concepts, examples and vocabulary, provide visuals that relate to the content you are covering.
Step 4. Create a presentation that outlines the important ideas with in your assigned sections.
Step 5. Class presentation
Chapter 5 Section 3: Why Do Individual Languages Vary Among Places?
Learning Outcome: 1. Understand the ways that dialects vary. 2. Understand the distribution of principal US dialects. 3. Understand the challenges of distribution. 4. Understand how some countries embrace more than one language.
Chapter 5 Section 3: Why Do Individual Languages Vary Among Places?
Step 1. Teacher assigns group and group topic/section.
Group 1: English Dialects: American and British English
Group 2: English Dialect: Dialects in the United Kingdom
Group 3: U.S Dialects: Distribution of US Dialects
Group 4: U.S Dialects: African American English, Appalachian English, Creole Languages.
Group 5: Dialect or Language?: Dialects Become Languages: Catalan, Galician, Moldovan, Italy's Languages, Occitan.
Group 6: Dialect or Language?: Standardizing Languages
Group 7: Multilingual Places: Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria, Belgium
Step 2. Research your topic/section assigned to you. Use your text book, pages 164-171.
Step 3. Focus on Key ideas, concepts, examples and vocabulary, provide visuals that relate to the content you are covering.
Step 4. Create a presentation that outlines the important ideas with in your assigned sections.
Step 5. Class presentation