Syllabus | EN 2107: English Language Teaching Methodology I
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The good language teacher (15/08 hrs)
- What is good language teaching?
The diverse roles and responsibilities of a successful teacher, discuss under 4 main categories:
- Source of expertise
- Source of advice
- Management roles
- Facilitator of learning
Classroom management (15/07hrs)
- Classroom organization: physical environment of the classroom, sight, sound comfort, seating arrangements, chalkboard use, equipment, teacher’s voice and body language
- Management during the lesson
Classroom language (15/08 hrs)
- Language for social interaction, e.g. why is Rohan absent?
- Language for classroom organization-maintaining discipline
- Language of instruction, e.g. get into groups of four. Listen to me please.
Questioning techniques (15/07hrs)
Purpose of teacher’s questions:
- Opportunity/impetus to produce language
- Initiate chain reaction and speech interaction
- Immediate feedback about student comprehension, i.e. teacher can use student responses to diagnose linguistic or content difficulties.
- to provide a model for language thinking
Type of questions: have been classified according to different criteria:
- what kind of thinking is involved-plain recall, analysis, evaluation
- Genuine or display questions.
- closed or open.
- convergent/divergent questions
Criteria for effective questioning:
- Clarity
- learning value
- Interest
- Availability i.e. can most of the students try to answer it?
- Extension –does it invite and encourage extended and varied answers
- Teacher reaction. Are the learners sure that their responses will be related to with respect
Pair and group work (15/08 hrs)
- Importance of pair and group work in TESL
- Selecting appropriate group techniques, difference between the two types, e.g. pair work: short, linguistically simple, quite controlled in terms of the structure of the task.
- Planning group work
Teaching aids (15/07hrs)
- Advantages of using teaching aids
- Types of teaching aids: low technology and high technology
- Effective use of teaching aids in the classroom
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