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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION 467-4
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CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Intersession, 1991
(May 6—June 14)
Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Northern Lights College
Fort St. John Campus
Room #: TBA
Instructor: ?
Doug Smith
Office: ?
153
Phone:
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785-6981 Ext. 49
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit and an undergraduate Linguistics course.
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 presentation ?
10%
2.
Development of a thematic unit pertinent to a specific
age/grade level ?
15%
3.
Development of a thematic phonology lesson ?
15%
4.
Development of a thematic morphology lesson ?
15%
5.
Development of a thematic syntax lesson
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15%
6.
Consolidation of a thematic unit plan
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30%
TEXTBOOKS
Children and ESL: Inte
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ersDectives. Patt 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.
Whole Language Strategies for ESL Primary Students. (Language and Literacy Series), Gail
Heald—Taylor, OISE Press, 1986.
Methodology in TESOL: A Book of Readings. Michael Long and Jack Richards (eds.),
Newbury House Publishers, 1987.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
Transcultural Teaching Everyday. Gloria Sampson, Duplicated draft of textbook available from
the author, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
Curriculum 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.
