Purpose of this class:
1. knowledge of past and present
teaching approaches
2. Techniques for teaching the
language skills
3. Various options for
intergrading the skills
Useful information for teacher’s
performance
and
professional growth.
• objectives of the class
• grading policy
• content of each unit that we’re going to
cover
• On-line learning activities
• Textbook:
Marianne Celce Murcia, editor, Teaching
English as a Second or Foreign
Language 3rd edition, Heinle & Heinle,
Thomson Learning , 2001
Grading policy
• Class involvement and on-line interaction ( chat
room)
10%
• Teaching strategy and teaching material
evaluation
20%
• Lesson plan conducting
20%
• Oral presentation ( classroom meeting in FJU )
30%
• Comprehensive written test
20%
Unit I : Teaching Methodology
– Language Teaching Approaches
– Communicative Language Teaching for the 21
Century
– Syllabus Design
Goals of unit 1:
1. To acquire an over view of the historical
background of teaching approaches
2. To design a syllabus for your own class
using the most effective approaches.
Learning activity:
• lecture
• on-line test
• Worksheets and chat room discussion
Unit II: Four Language Skills:
Listening
• Aural comprehension instruction:
principles and practices
• Skills and strategies for proficient listening
Speaking
• Teaching oral skills
• Teaching pronunciation
• Developing children’s listening and
speaking in ESL
Reading
• Teaching children literacy skills in a
second language
• Developing adult literacy
• Reading for academic purpose: guideline
for ESL/EFL teachers
Writing
• Functional tasks for mastering the
mechanics of writing
• Considerations for teaching an ESL/EFL
writing course
• Grammar in writing
Grammar and Vocabulary
• Teaching grammar
• Cognitive approaches to grammar
instruction
• Vocabulary learning and teaching
Goals of Unit II:
1. To acquire practical skills and strategies in
teaching listening and speaking /
reading and writing / grammar and
vocabulary.
2. Be able to design effective learning
activities in your own classroom .
Learning activity:
1. Lecture
2. Teaching materials and strategy
evaluation
3. chat room discussion
Unit III. : Integrated Approaches
1. Content-based and Immersion models
for second and foreign language
teaching.
2. Literature as content for ESL/EFL.
Goals of Unit III
1. To be familiarize with the content based
and immersion models or other
integrated approaches in English
teaching.
2. Be able to design an integrated teaching
unit using literature as content.
Learning activity:
1. Lecture
2. Practical lesson plan conducting
3. On-line peer evaluation.
Unit IV : Skills for Teachers
1. Planning lessons
2. The use of media in language teaching
3. Computers in language teaching
4.
Second language assessment
Goals of unit IV:
1. Be able to explain or analyze guidelines
in lesson planning .
2. Present an effective media assisted or
computer assisted lesson plan.
3. Be able to assess students’ learning
outcome according to different goals.
Learning activities:
1. Lecture
2. Multimedia demonstration
3. Classroom meeting and discussion
seminar
4. On-line peer evaluation
5. On-line test