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EDUCATION 467-4
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING
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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Summer Session, 1991 ?
Instructor: Mary Selman
(July 2— August 9)
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Office: ?
Harbour Centre
Monday and Wednesday
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Phone: ?
263-7251
9:30 a.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Location: Room 1415 Harbour Centre
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit. A lower level Linguistics course is required.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Education 467 is an introduction to teaching English as a second or foreign
language in a variety of contexts to a wide range of adult and child learners. The
course includes an examination and analysis of the social and political context for
second language teaching.
Participants will examine and critique theories and approaches to language
learning and will study their applications in methodologies. They will practice
developing and carrying out learning tasks. These will include the use of content
based models, among others. The course will emphasize needs assessment and
how to use it in the development of lessons and units. Issues related to curriculum
development, learner progress, instructor and program evaluation, and culture are
important aspects of the course. Participants will develop skills in critiquing and
adapting published ESL materials and in developing original ones.
Students in this course will arrange to observe language learners and observe and
participate in ESL classes as well as engage in in-class demonstrations of
classroom activities.
TEXTBOOKS
Long, Michael, & Richards, Jack (Ed.). (1987). Methodolog y
in TESOL. A Book of
Readings, Newbury House Publishers.
Bell, Jill. Teaching Multi-level Classes in ESL. Dominie Press (now Pippin
Publishing Ltd.)
Centre for Distance Educ•n ?
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Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
TC 3100 ?
291-3524
EDUCATION 467-4
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Education 467 is an introductory course to provide practising or pre-service teachers
with an overview of the basic principles of teaching English as a second language.
The disciplinary bases of contemporary approaches to second language teaching are
discussed, curricular methods and materials are evaluated and students will develop
materials which might be useful in their own actual or projected teaching situations.
PREREQUISITE:
60 credit hours. A lower level Lingustics course.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Pat Rigg and D. Scott Enright.
Children and ESL: Integrating Perspectives.
Washington, D.C: TESOL, 1986.
Gordon Wells. The Meaning Makers; Children Learning Language and Using
Language to Learn.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1986.
Canadian ESL Materials,
Special issue of TESL Talk, Vol. 18 (1), 1988.
For those interested in ESL for young children: Gail Heald-Taylor.
Whole Language
Strategies for ESL Students.
Toronto: OISE Press, 1986.
For those interested in ESL for secondary students and adults: Jill Bell and Barbara
Burnaby.
Handbook for ESL Literacy.
Toronto: OISE Press, 1984.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Assignment 1
Self-Introduction
10%
Assignment 2
Observation Exercise
10%
Assignment 3
Phonology Exercise
15%
Assignment 4
Verb Form Exercise
15%
Assignment 5
Lesson Plan
20%
Assignment 6
Unit Plan
30%
COURSE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT
NOTICE.
