EDUCATION 467 

CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN ` 

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE 

Gloria P. Sampson, Associate Professor 

Office: 634 

Phone: 291-3627 

Meeting Tines: 

Intersession 1978 ? 

12:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tue E, Fri. 

Summer Session 1978 

?

12:30 - 

1

4:30 p.m. Tue 9 Fri. 

Prerequisite: 

Any course in linguistics. 

Course Aims. 

By the end of this course you should be able to: 

1.

Select ESL curricular materials that are appropriate for use with 

students of varying ages, linguistic backgrounds and cultural backgrounds. 

2.

Implement ESL activities in a classroom setting. 

3.

Use the diagnostic tool of error analysis to evaluate a learner's 

competence in English. 

. Create language - learning, tasks for enrichment or remedial purposes. 

5. Defend the use of a teaching approach that views the ESL learner as 

linguistically and culturally different not linguistically and culturally 

deficient. 

Assignments: 

1.

Diagnosing language problems. 

2. Lesson plan. 

3. Unit plan. 

Students in this class can decide which level or levels they wish to 

focus on in their assignments : (a) early childhood, (b) elementary, (c) 

secondary, or (d) adult. 

There is no final exam - a major assignment is given instead. 

Textbooks: 

Sampson, Gloria P. New Routes to English, Level I (Teacher's Annotated 

Edition, Student Text, 'Workbook). Don Mills, Ont., Collier Macmillan 

Canada Ltd., 1978. 

Croft, Kenneth (ed.) Readings on English as a Second Language. Prentice- 

Hall of Canada. 

Burt, Marina K. and Carol Kiparsky. The Godficon: A Repair Manual For 

English. Rowley: Mass., Newbury House Publ. 

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