TODAY1. Ed Essay checklist2. Language Unit (Your English

Persona)3. NPR Listening4. Time chart

HANDOUT: PART 1. WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU WOULD WORK ON IN YOUR ESSAY IF YOU HAVE MORE TIME. (USE THE QUESTIONS ON THE HANDOUT FOR IDEAS.)Clear thesis?Clear main ideas?Have you supported your ideas? Have

you developed your ideas? Have you incorporated any sources from

class? How did you use the support?….Organization? ….Grammar?

√ LAST CLASS WE STARTED TO DISCUSS: How well do you think your English fits your

personal identity? Why? Why not?How does language change you? What is your relationship with language? Language learning? English?

Let’s continue…. Discuss the first side of the Language Ego

HANDOUT. Whole class—small groups—whole class….. But first, some goals and concepts…..

√ GOALS Be able to better understand one’s own

language ego. ==Own your language ==Accept one’s own language ==Identify potential barriers to change

Language goals: Comparing and contrasting Expressing feelings, behaviors, attitudes,

motivation, barriers Describing personality characteristics Generalizing

CONCEPTS: Ego—a. psychology : a part of the mind that senses and

adapts to the real world; b. the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world Language ego—how you see yourself when you

speak a language Q1/ Q3 Personality-- the complex of characteristics that

distinguishes an individual or a nation or group; especially : the totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics

Q2 Persona: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; a public personality (face); Language persona—the person you present to the

world when you speak a specific language Q3 Temperament-the usual attitude, mood, or behavior

of a person or animal An artistic temperament A nervous temperament(your normal emotional response)

√EX: A pleasant personality; open; closed; friendly; kind; Easy-going; Difficult; demanding; cautious; humble; etc.EX: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-personality-traits.html

ENGLISH IDENTITYHANDOUT: LANGUAGE EGO. Discuss.Rules:1.**When you turn the paper over, please

let me know!!!!!2. If you have a vocabulary question—call

me, your personal dictionary, over.

“Mugah mugah aunche”

REPORT ON LANGUAGE EGO HANDOUT Analyze whether learning a new language has

changed your personality (or not)…(Armenian saying.)

Compare you (and your classmates) L1 and L2 persona….

Do you think the persona you give in your L1 is the “authentic or real you”? Why or why not? Does the L2 allow you to be a way your L1 does not allow?

We’ve been talking about how the context in which we grow up (our society, our education system, etc.) influences the people we become. EX. Being aware of standing proximity between men and

women in Muslim countries Synthesize??? In terms of global English, what does

learning a second language mean globally?????

NPR

In Groups: Answer first three questions. Read questions in C.

Second listening

Casting directors His audition

Aspiring actors hoping to land a role.Maybe they are practicing their lines.

Waiting to audition…..

"PLAYING THE AMERICAN" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php

?storyId=4716864 June 24, 2005 A class called "Playing the American" at

UCLA aims to help actors from abroad to capture the American type. Mastering the accent is a challenge in itself. The teacher of the class and two students discuss what it means to "act American."