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    EDUC. 467-4 INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (TESL)
    FALL, 1981 ?
    INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Gloria Sampson
    Bldg. #6(624) 291-4484
    Tuesday 4:30 - 8:20
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    LOCATION: on campus
    PREREQUISITE: an undergraduate course in linguistics - no exceptions will be made.
    TOPICS COVERED:
    1. Approaches to TESL.
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    Unit planning through themes: problems of control and freedom.
    3.
    Structuring and sequencing functional and linguistic input to the learner.
    4.
    Morphology. Sentence structures.
    5.
    The tense system of English
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    The pronunciation of English.
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    The functions and structures of discourse.
    8.
    Cognitive development and language learning: the teaching of reading.
    9.
    Error analysis and contrastive analysis
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    the teaching of writing.
    10.
    Evaluating textbooks.
    TEXTBOOKS
    (Required) Wilga Rivers and Mary Temperley. A Practical Guide to the Téachi
    of English (as a second Or foreign language). New York:
    Oxford University Press, 1978.
    (Optional) J. Donald Bowen. Patterns of English Pronunciation. Rowley, Mass.:
    Newbury House, 1975.
    (Optional) Joan Tough. Listening to Children Talking. London: Ward Lock Education,
    1976.
    Other readings are on reserve in the library.
    RESERVE BOOKS:
    Alan Lynsky. Children and Themes. London: Oxford University Press, 1974 (4 hr. reserve)
    Harold B. Allen and Russell Campbell. Teaching English as a Second Language, 2nd ed.
    New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. (4 hr. reserve)
    H. Douglas Brown. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Englewood Cliffs,
    New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. (4 hr. reserve)
    GRADING
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    Assignment: Theme Plan (20%)
    2.
    Assignment: Unit and Lesson Plans (30%)
    3.
    Assignment: Evaluation of an ESL textbook (20%)
    4.
    Midterm Exam (30%)
    There is no final examination.

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