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ELT 008 - New Approaches in English Language Teaching

Faculty of Education · English Language Teaching · Undergraduate

ECTS: 4 T+P+L: 2+0+0 Field Education Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Hidayet SARANDİ

Course Objective

To familiarize students with recent methods and approaches in second language teaching.

Course Content

Recent methods such as communicative language teaching, task-based language teaching, strategy based language teaching lexical appraoch, socicultural appraoch are introduced

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will eb able to critically evaluate methods
  2. students will know the most recent methods in language teaching.

Core Area Distribution

(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%60 (22) Humanities%40

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionPresentation

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)12224
Out of Class Study Period14456
Midterm11212
Quiz000
Assignment000
Practice000
Final11212

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Introduction to coursenot needed
2communicative language teachingRead chapter 5 in Richard and Rodgers
3communicative language teachingRead chapter 5 in Richard and Rodgers
4content based instructionRead chapter 6 in Richard and Rodgers
5content based instructionRead chapter 6 in Richard and Rodgers
6Competency based instruction and common europen frameworkRead chapter 8 in Richard and Rodgers
7Task-based language TeachingRead chapter 8 in Richard and Rodgers
8midterm examnot needed
9Lexiacl appraochRead chapter 8 in Richard and Rodgers
10Lexiacl appraochRead chapter 8 in Richard and Rodgers
11Text-based appraochRead chapter 10 in Richard and Rodgers
12Text-based appraochRead chapter 8 in Richard and Rodgers
13Strategy-based instructionRead chapter 13 in Larsen-freeman
14political dimension in languageRead chapter 12 in Larsen-freeman
15ReviewGeneral review of the whole books
16Finalto read the chapters