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Education 467-4 Curriculum & Instruction in Teaching English as a Second Language
Summer Session 1983
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Nicholas Collins
Mondays & Thursdays, hOO -
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4:50 ?
LOCATION: on campus
OBJECTIVES
In this course you will learn to prepare lessons for the Teaching of
English as a Second Language. The lessons will contain materials and techniques
appropriate to learners of a specific age and language ability. You may choose
to analyze and prepare materials on any level: preschool ,primary,intermediate,
high school or adult. You will also learn what kinds of criteria can be used
to evaluate language textbooks.
To p ics to be covered
1.
History of Language Teaching Methods
2. Communicative competence
3.
Phonology and language teaching
4.
Teaching pronunciation
5. Grammar
6.
Grammar and language teaching
7.
Communicative language teaching
8.
Psychological,political and economic considerations
9.
Reading and listening
10.
Writing and speaking
11. Bilingual education
in ESL teaching
Evaluation will be based upon:
1.
A textbook evaluation
2.
A unit plan for ESL teaching
3.
Presentation of a lesson from your unit plan
4.
Participation in workshop activities
5. Mid-term quiz
6. End-of-term quiz
Letter grades will be given for each of the above assignments. All assignments
are worth the same weighting in your final grade. Assignments completed
unsatisfactorily( i.e. those receiving failing grades) may be resubmitted for
a maximum grade of C. Assignments must be submitted on time and if resubmitted,
must be handed in no later than one week after initial grading.
TEXTS
1.
Celce-Murcia, M. and L. McIntosh. Teaching English asasécorid of
, foreign
language. Rowley,Mass.:Newbury House Publishers,1979.
2.
TEAL'81 Conference Proceedings. Association of B.C. TEAL,c/o B.C.T.F.,
2235 Burrard Street,Vancouver,B.C. ,V6J 3H9.
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ding upon your interes
and activities for the
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and activities for the
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t area,please purchase at least one
teaching of primary ESL students.
Board , 1979.
teaching of intermediate ESL students.
Board ,1979.
(a supplement for Primary and Intermediate is also available)
Copies of the B.C. Ministry of Education Resource Guide K-12 for
English as a Second Language/Dialect will be available for loan during the
course.
You will also be expected to do library research. The following journals
will be among those used:
Applied Linguistics
TESOL Quarterly
TESOL Newsletter
The Canadian Modern Language Review
International Review of Applied Linguistics
Language Learning
TESL Talk
English Language Teaching Journal
The English Quarterly
The Modern Language Journal
TEAL Newsletter
TEAL Occasional Papers
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