Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language

Course Objectives

• Identify the main features of a language lesson 
• Become familiar with techniques for presenting and practicing new language structures to language learners
• Understand the principles of effective lesson planning and the ability to plan a lesson
• Understand the reading and listening processes
• Identify, select and evaluate various methods and techniques in English teaching
• Identify learner error and to decide when to correct and when not to correct
• Understand how to encourage learner independence

What You Learn

• Contexts of teaching and learning English: TESOL, TESL, TEFL, CBI, ESP, CLIL
• Communicative language teaching and activities
• The role of the teacher
• Grouping of students
• Classroom language
• Giving instructions
• Systems teaching
• Presentation, practice, production
• Teaching grammar and vocabulary
• Principles of lesson planning
• Skills teaching
• Top-down and bottom-up processing
• Planning reading lessons
• Grammar-Translation Method
• Audio-Lingual Method
• Humanistic Methods
• Suggestopedia
• The Natural Approach 
• The Communicative Approach
• The Lexical Approach
• Selecting appropriate learning materials
• Fluency versus accuracy
• Correction and feedback 
• Neuroscience and neuromyths in language teaching

How You Learn

• Readings
• Mini-lectures
• Demonstrations
• Group discussions and activities
• Micro-teaching
• Videos
• Assignments