Course ELT METHOD

The course is designed to examine the nature of each of English Language Teaching Methods including Presenting A Century of Language Teaching (The Early Years (Grammar Translation Methods, Direct Methods, and Audiolingual Methods), The designer Methods (Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia, The Silent Way, Total Physical Response and The Nature Approach), and The dawning (Communicative Language Teaching and Notional Functional Syllabus), Presenting Contextualizing Communicative Approach covering of General Approach (Learner Centre Instruction, Task Based Language Teaching, Theme Based Instruction, Strategies Based Instruction, Collaborative Approach) and Specific Approach (Content Based Language Teaching, Immersion, Bilingual Education, Workplace and Vocational L2 Instruction) from a discourse perspective (review of ELT methods and approaches in language teaching); to introduce students to the current teaching methods and approaches (genre based, task based, and content based, project based learning, discovery learning, problem based learning);to develop links between what teachers and learners do in class and what applied linguistic research tells us about how second language acquisition takes place; to develop an understanding of interactional competence and the means to develop it among L2 learners; to develop a reflective approach to teaching through classroom observations.

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