COURSE OUTLINE

Title:                    Language Teaching Practice

Course code:       ENG702

No. of credits:      3 credits

1. COURSE OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide language teachers a critical understanding of the current principles, issues, and activities underlying the teaching of English as a foreign language, enable them to apply their learning in a real teaching context, improve their teaching skills, and develop their ability to manage classes and classroom activities

2. COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Discuss important issues related to the different principles, teaching approaches/ methods, learning and teaching of language areas and language skills in different teaching contexts
• Discuss the relationships of language, and society in language teaching and learning
• Incorporate key methodological principles associated with the various teaching approaches into selecting materials, resources, learning activities and into planning language lessons
• Develop teaching skills through conducting a language lesson relevant for their teaching context
• Self-evaluate their implematation of the theories about language teaching and learnning in paticular teaching contexts and dicuss those of others 
• Practice self-study

3. TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS

• The learners
• The teacher
• Classroom activities
• Teaching Language Skills
• Technology in language learning and teaching
• Planning lessons
• Motivational strategies
• Teaching strategies & Techniques
• Classroom management
• New trends in Language teaching and Learning

4. MATERIALS

4.1. Required textbooks

• Brown, D. (2007). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy (3^th Ed.). New York: Pearson Education.
• Dornyei, Z. (2001). Motivational strategies in language classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Fetherston, T. (2006). Becoming an effective teacher. Melbourne: Cengage Learning.
• Gower, R., & Walters, S. (1983). Teaching practice handbook. Oxford: Heinemann.
• Grundtvig Learning Partnership (2011). Guidelines for Quality in Teaching. Quality in Language Teaching for Adults.
• Hall, G. (2011). Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in action. New York: Routledge.
• Harmer, J. (2007). How to teach English. England: Pearson Education.
• Harmer, J. (2007). The Practice of English language teaching. England: Pearson Education.
• Hedge, P. (2000). Teaching and learning in the language classroom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hughes, G.S. (2001). A Handbook of classroom English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Scrivener, J. (2012). Classroom management Techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Scrivener, J. (2011). Learning teaching: The essential guide to English Language Teaching. Oxford: Macmillan Education.  
• Ur, P. (1996). A Course in language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4.2. Reference materials

Online Resources

• http://www.macmillanenglish.com/Default.aspx
• http://www.cambridge.org/elt/resources/
• http://www.onestopenglish.com
• http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rthompso/tman.html
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml

5. ASSESSMENT

5.1     Midterm (40%)

• Class activities (10%)
• Theory summary (10%)
• Lesson plan (for a 15- minute micro-teaching lesson) (20%)

5.2     Final (60%)

• Micro-teaching (30%)
• Teaching evaluation  (30%)

6. STUDENT WORKLOAD

• Directed study:               60 periods
• Independent Study:        120 periods