The course is designed to examine the nature of each of the four language skills from a discourse perspective (review of traditional 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; and to develop a reflective approach to teaching through classroom observations.