Contemporary Issues in Teaching English Language EENG 4222
Course description:
This course is meant to bring together some current trends in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. It aims at reviewing the main domains of applied linguistics: socio-cultural approaches, focus-on-form concerns and computer-assisted language learning. Effective techniques of creating communicative classroom environments will be tackled and students will be invited to write and apply a summary about a recent method of language teaching.
Course Aims:
The course aims to:
- Analyze the various socio-cultural factors affecting actual learning.
- Review the main elements of socio-cultural perspectives of a foreign language teaching.
- Itroduce the focus-on-form approach which leads EFLLs to pay attention to their linguistic structures.
- Compare the traditional perspective of language teaching and the current modern ones.
- Focus on the different techniques that help use computer in assisting language learning.
- Discuss the benefits of communicative classroom environments.
- Pesent effective pedagogical implications which help foster language development.
- Invite students to work in group and write a summary about a recent method of language teaching.
Course outcomes:
By the end of this course students are expected to:
- Compare traditional and modern trends of language teaching.
- Apply text reconstruction and joint composition tasks which lead students to pay attention to linguistic structures.
- Use recent technology devices in teaching English language.
- Suggest useful ideas for creating effective communicative classrooms’ environments.
- Present and apply a summary about a recent method of language teaching.
- Admire group work activities.
- Be aware that language learning is an ongoing process.