Type of Credit: Required
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(This is just a tentative and sketchy course outline. A more thorough syllabus will be presented to all class members on the first day of class.)
This course aims to help all the participants (TESOL graduate students) develop an updated and critical understanding of language teaching theories. These are five main themes:
1. Foundations of Methodology
2. Language Skills
3. Skills for teachers
4. Integrated approaches
5. Focus on the learner
6. Focus on the teacher
We will use two books and supplemented with research papers on related concepts. It is also important for us to spend a substantial amount of time critically thinking about and discussing how these Western theories and concepts can be used to examine local issues.
能力項目說明
1. Theoretical understanding: The students will be able to discuss extensively major theoretical frames in TESOL.
2. Pedagogical understanding: The students will be able to apply major TESOL concepts in chosen contexts.
3. Research understanding: The students will be able to read and point out critical elements of different lines of research related to TESOL.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 1. Chapter 1: Introduction
Week 2. Chapter 2: GTM
Week 3: Chapter 3 Direct method (Transfer, interference, and overgeneration, inductive and deductive reasoning.
Week 4: Chapter 4 ALM
Week 5: Chapter 5 Silent way. Rote learning versus meaningful learning
Week 6: Chapter 6 Desuggestopedia and cooperative learning
Week 7: CLL and Roger's humanistic psychology
Week 8: Chapter 8 TPR, Left and right brain
Week 9: Chapter 10: Mid-term exam
Week 10: The Natural approach/ Top-down and bottom-up processing
Week 11: Chapter 9 CLT, Discourse, meaning negotiation
Week 12 and 13: CBI and CALL
Week 14: TBLT
Week 15: Critical thinking
Week 16: Strategies, MI, Styles, and strategies
Week 17: Conclusion
Week 18: Final exam
Participation 20%
Mid-term exam: 20%
Projects 30%
Final exam or report: 30%
(To be confirmed when the semester starts.)
Foundation: Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, and Marguerite Ann Snow (Eds.)(2014) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th Edit).
New Concepts: https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Foundations-for-Teaching-English-as-an-Additional-Language/Vinogradova-Shin/p/book/9780429398612