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EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
SPRING,
1979
Gloria P. Sampson, Associate Professor
Office:
627
Ph:
291-4484
Meeting Times:
Tuesdays:
6:00
p.m. -
9:50
p.m.
Prerequisite:
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Any undergraduate course in linguistics.
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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.
4.
Create language-leàrni:ñg 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:
I. Pronunciation Assessment
2.
Error Analysis of Student Productions
3.
Textbook Evaluation
4.
Unit Plan.
Students in this class can decide which level or levels they wish to focus
on in their assignments :
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(a) early childhood, (b) elementary, (c) secondary,
or (d) adult.
There is no final exam-
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a major assignment is given instead.
Textbooks:
Sampson, Gloria P. New Routes to English, Level I, (Teacher's Annotated Ed,
Student Texts, 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 Gooficon: A Repair Manual For English
Rowley: Mass., Newbury House Pub].
(optional) Current Approaches to the Teaching of Grammar in ESL
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in Language
in Education) Arlington Va: Center for Applied Linguistics,
1978.
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