In the name of Allah
Course: Teaching language skills, M.A
Mansoor Tavakoli, Ph.D. Associate Professor
University of Isfahan, Department of English
E-mail: mr.tavakoli14@gmail.com
Class Meetings: Mondays, 10:00/11:30, and Tuesdays 10:00/11:30
Semester: Spring 1395/2016
Course Requirements and grading system:
1- Term paper (optional)10%
2- Effective class lecture and participation 10%
3- Examinations 80%
Note1: You are required to complete all assigned readings before class (see syllabus, but additional material may be distributed in class). Attendance and class participation are considered in your grade.
Note2: The deadline for submitting the papers is exactly the date of final examination. All work must be handed in on the due date; late work will receive a grade reduction.
Objectives:
1- To boost M.A. students’ pedagogical knowledge regarding teaching language skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing.
2- To provide M.A. students with relevant information regarding the development and application of different approaches to teaching language skills in the classroom.
3- To introduce M.A. students majoring in TEFL to fundamental issues in language skills research, especially in terms of their nature, processes, subskils, and classroom implications and applications.
Weekly Schedule for teaching Language skills M.A, spring 1395/2016
S1. Introduction to the course:
Tavakoli (in press)
S2. The nature and process of listening:
Vandergrift and Goh (2012)
S3 & 4. Issues in teaching listening (aural comprehension):
Celce-Murcia et al. (2014: Chaps. 6 & 7)
Richards and Renandya (2002, Chaps 21, 22 &23)
Carter and Nunan (2001: Chap 1); Richards (2008: Chap 1)
S5. Speaking, Psycholinguistic model of speech production:
Richards (2008)
S6 & 7. Issues in teaching speaking:
Celce-Murcia et al. (2014: Chaps. 8, 9, 10 & 18)
Richards and Renandya (2002: chaps. 18, 19 & 20)
Carter and Nunan (2001: Chap. 2)
S8. The nature and process of reading:
Grabe (2009)
S9 & 10. Issues in teaching Reading:
Celce-Murcia et al. (2014: Chaps. 11, 12 & 13)
Richards and Renandya (2002: chaps. 26, 27 & 28)
Carter and Nunan (2001: Chap. 3)
S11. The nature and process of writing:
Celce-Murcia et al. (2014)
S12 & 13. Issues in teaching writing:
Celce-Murcia et al. (2014: Chaps. 14, 15 & 16)
Richards and Renandya (2002: chaps. 29, 30, & 32)
Carter and Nunan (2001: Chap. 4)
S14 & 15 Students’ practical teaching
S16. Final remarks:
Required Sources
Carter, R., & Nunan D. (2001). The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. CUP.
Celce-Murcia, M. Brinton, D. M. & Snow, M. A. (Eds) (2014). Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. FOURTH EDITION. Heinle Cengage Learning.
Richards, J. C. & Renandya W. A. (2002). Methodology in language teaching. CUP.
Richards, J. C. (2008). Teaching Listening and Speaking from Theory to Practice. Cambridge: CUP.
Recommended Background reading
Grabe, W. (2009). Reading in a Second Language: Moving from theory to practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tavakoli, M. (in press). Methodology in English Language Teaching. University of Isfahan.
Vandergrift, L. & Goh, C. C. M. (2012). Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening: Metacognition in Action. Routledge.
*Good Luck*