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Berkeley Global
Get a practical and theoretical introduction to teaching the English language. You will experience a variety of methods and techniques from the field and will have the opportunity to design and micro-teach your own activities for the presentation and practice of new language and the teaching of skills. The course will emphasize planning and teaching appropriate language lessons for students of English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language.
Course Outline
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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
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Summer enrollment opens on March 20!