The language unit consitst of 4 two-hour sessions for a total of 8 hours.
| Lecture Topic | Activity Name | Activity Type |
| Lecture 1 Intgroduction to linguistics Articulatory phonetics | Description activity | DVD format |
| Lecture 2 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) | Reverse transcription activity Past tense morphemes in English World languages activity | Paper and pencil Paper and pencil CD/DVD format |
| Lecture 3 Language variation Language acquisition | Speech genre activity Code-switching activity Language acqusition activity | DVD format DVD format DVD format |
| Lecture 4 Standard language | World Englishes activity Non-native Englishes activity | DVD format DVD format |
| Readings | |
| Discussion board forum 1 | Trilingualism (Baker, 2002) I ain't writin' nuttin': Permission to fail The demands to succeed in urban classroom (Ladson-Billings, 2002) |
| Discussion board forum 2 | Regional and social variation (Rickford, 1996) Choose between: Social contexts for ethnic borders and school failure. (McDermott & Gospodinoff, 2003) Chapter 12, Linguistics strengths of Mexican-American students. (Sheets, 2005) |
| Discussion board forum 3 | Chapter 12, Chatterboxes (Pinker, 1994). Chapter 9, Baby born talking, describes heaven (Pinker, 1994) |
| Discussion board forum 4 | Chapter 8, When numbers get serious. (Esquith, 2002) Choose between: Chapter 5, The educational system (Lippe-green, 1999) Chapter 12, The language mavens (Pinker, 1994) |