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EDUCATION 468-4

RECENT ADVANCES IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A

SECOND LANGUAGE

Spring, 1988

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Instructor: Kelleen Toohey

Office: ?

MPX 8669

Phone:

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291-4397

PRE-REQUISITE:

Education 467-4

Students in this course will continue the investigations begun in Education

467, developing a personal theory of second language teaching and

learning based on reflection upon relevant theory and research topics to be

addressed include:

- first and second language acquisition

- errors and learning strategies

- cooperative techniques in language classrooms

- "whole language" methodologies

- bilingual education

ASSIGNMENTS, FOR THIS COURSE (worth 25% each) WILL INCLUDE:

1.

completion of study questions based on readings

2.

group planning of an instructional package

3.

2 papers analyzing issues in L2 teaching/learning

TEXTS:

William Littlewood. (1984). Foreign and Second Language Learning.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gillian Brown & George Yale. (1984). Teaching the Spoken Language.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.