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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 4674
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TEACIUNG
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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
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(1)2.00) ?
(Cat. #47988)
Intersession, 1993 ?
Instructor: Doug Smith
(May 3—June 11) ?
Office: ?
Room 122
Tuesday / Thursday, 4:30-8:20 p.m. ?
Phone: ?
785-6981 (ext. 2060)
Location: Northern Lights College, Ft. St. John
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit and ENGL 370 or a Linguistics course.
DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to familiarize practicing and prospective teachers of
English as a second language with current TESL methodologies. Through
discussion of characteristic ESL teacher/learner problematics and of pertinent
linguistic phenomena, the teachers will be encouraged to develop lesson and
unit plans according to strategies most suited to a specific classroom situation.
Peripheral topics, such as culture and identity shock, learning dysfunction,
mechanics of classroom management, and idiosyncratic linguistic
phenomena, will also be addressed.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1. In-class presentations ?
40%
2. Journal of class notes and article synopses ?
100/0
3.
Development of a thematic unit pertinent to a specific
age/grade level
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500/0
Richards, Jack and Rogers, Theodore. Approaches and Methods in Language
Teaching: A Description and Anal y
sis. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1986.
Richards, Jack, and Nunan, David. (Eds.). Second Language Teacher
Education. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Long, Michael and Richards, Jack (Eds.). Methodolog
y
in TESOL: A Book of
Readings. New York: Newbury House Publishers (Harper Collins
Publishers), 1987.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
Sampson, Gloria. Transcultural Learning Ever
y Day (Teaching English as a
Second Language). Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University,
April, 1992.
