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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION 467-4
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CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING ENGLISH
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AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
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(D2.00)
Intersession, 1992
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Instructor: Doug Smith
(May 4 - June 12) ?
Office: ?
122 (FSJ Campus)
Mondays/Wednesdays, 4:30 - 8:30 p.m.
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Phone:
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785-6981 Ext. 2060
Location: Northern Lights College
Dawson Creek Campus
PREREQUISITES:
60 hrs. credit. A Linguistics course or ENGL 370.
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
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In-class presentations ?
20%
2.
Journal of class notes and article synopses
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100/0
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Development of a thematic unit pertinent to a specific age/grade level
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70%
TEXTBOOKS
Children and ESL: Integrating nersuectives. Pat Rigg and Scott Enright (eds.), TESOL
Publications, 1986.
Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults: Methodology. Nicholas Elson (ed.),
TESL Talk, Vol. 14, nos. 1 and 2, Ministry of Citizenship, Ontario, 1983.
Methodology in TESOL: A Book of Readings. Michael Long and Jack Richards (eds.),
Newbury House Publishers, 1987.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
Transcultural Teachin
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Ever y
day. Gloria Sampson, Duplicated draft of textbook
available from the author, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
Currculum and Instruction in Teaching English as a Second Language: Education 467-4
Course Reader. Kelleen Toohey (ed.), Faculty of Education, Centre for Distance
Education, Simon Fraser University, 1986.