Week - 1 |
Introduction
Getting students' ideas related to language and language learning
Language skills and language teaching |
Week - 2 |
Research on teaching grammar
• Language learning and the role of grammar
• Is grammar a language skill?
• Challenging conceptions of grammar
Ellis,R. (2006). Current issues in the teaching of grammar: An SLA perspective. TESOL Quarterly, 40(1), 83-105.
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2003). Challenging conceptions of grammar. In Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring. Thomson-Heinle: Canada. Pp.11-23.
Nassaji, H. & Fotos,S. (2011). The changing view of grammar instruction. In Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms: Integrating Form-focused Instruction in Communicative Context. Routledge: New York, pp.1-16. |
Week - 3 |
Research on teaching grammar
• The Role of Input and Output
• Input Processing
• Input enhancement
Izumi,S. (2002). Output, input enhancement and the noticing hypothesis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 541-577.
Lee,S. & Huang, H. (2008). Visual input enhancement and grammar learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30, 307-331.
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Week - 4 |
Research on teaching grammar
• Form-focused instruction
• Focus on form versus focus on FormS
Fotos, S. (1998). Shifting the focus from forms to form in the EFL classroom. ELT Journal, 52(4), 301-307.
Sheen,R. (2003). Focus on form-a myth in the making?. ELT Journal, 57(3), 225-233.
Spada,N. & Lightbown, P. (2008). Form-focused instruction: Isolated or integrated?. TESOL Quarterly, 42(2), 181-207. |
Week - 5 |
Research on teaching grammar
• Task-based Instruction
• Teaching Grammar through context
• Discovery techniques
Huang, L. (2011). Key concepts and theories in Teal: Task-based instruction. BC Teal, 9-13.
Celce-Murcia, M. (2002). Why it makes sense to teach grammar in context and through discourse. In E. Hinkel & S.Fotos’s (Ed.) New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp.119-134.
Thornbury, S. (2006). DOGME: Teaching unplugged. In Readings in Methodology: A Collection of Articles on the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, 92-95.
Richards, J. & Reppen, R. (2014). Towards a pedagogy of grammar instruction. RELC Journal, 45(1), 5-25. |
Week - 6 |
Research on teaching grammar continued
Reflections and Evaluations |
Week - 7 |
Midterm |
Week - 8 |
Research on teaching reading
Grabe, W. (2009). Reading in a Second Language: Moving From Theory to Practice. Cambridge University Press: USA. Chapter1-Chapter 7.
Koda, K. (2005). Looking at the whole. In Insights into Second Language Reading: A Cross-linguistic Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, pp. 181-226.
Nuttall, C. (1998). Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language. Oxford: Macmillian Heinemann.pp.44-77. |
Week - 9 |
Research on teaching reading
Harmer, J. (2001). Reading. In The Practice of English Language Teaching. New York: Pearson Longman, pp.283-302.
Mclver, N. (2001). How do I help students read? English Teaching professional, 19.
Prowse,P. (1999). The secret of reading. English Teaching professional, 13. |
Week - 10 |
Research on teaching listening
Brown, S. (2006). Teaching Listening. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Harmer, J. (2001). Listening. In The Practice of English Language Teaching. New York: Pearson Longman, pp.303-322.
Vandergrift, L. (2004). Listening to learn or learning to listen. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 24, 3-25. |
Week - 11 |
Research on teaching listening
Nunan, D. (1997). Approaches to teaching listening in the classroom. Proceedings of the 1997 Korea TESOL Conference,pp.1-11.
Richards, J. Second thoughts on teaching listening. RELC Journal, 36(1), 85-92.
Rost, M. (2011). Approaches to teaching listening. In Teaching and Researching Listening. New York: Pearson, pp.142-159. |
Week - 12 |
Paper presentations
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Week - 13 |
Paper presentations
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Week - 14 |
Paper presentations
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