Graduate Education Institute · English Language Teaching · Master
ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Hidayet SARANDİ
Instructors: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Eyyüp Yaşar KÜRÜM
Course Objective
This course follows three main objectives:
- To introduce recent theories in English language teaching methodology and SLA.
- To reveal how these new perspectives can assist language teachers to become more informed decision makers and improve their teaching practice.
- To become familiar with some research related to the topics discussed and provide insights on how similar studies can be conduct in the context of Turkey.
Course Content
The course will examine recent trends in ELT including CLT, task-based language teaching, content-based instruction, competency-based instrcution, standard education, text-based approach to language teaching, strategy-based instruction and finally introduces the main features post-method. It also examines the second language acquisition theories that have had largest impact on language teacging including cogntive, interactionist and socio-cultural theories.
Required Resources
- Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Third Editions, 2014. Richards and Rodgers. Cambridge.
- Second Language Learning Theories. Third Edition. 2013. Rosamond Mitchell, Florence Myles, Emma Marsden. Routledge
- Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Postmethod. 2006. Kumaravadivelu. B. Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Recommended Resources
- Principle of Language Learning and Teaching. 2007. Brown Douglas. fifth edition
- Current perspectives on pedagogy for English as a lingua franca. Bayurt and Sumru
Course Learning Outcomes
- Students will be familiarized with the most recent teaching methods introduced in 20 century
- Students will have ideas on how to conduct studies that are in line with common trends in ELT
- Students will develop some initial understanding on the interfact between language acquistion theories and language methodolgy
- Students will be familiar with the important factors required for sound studies in applied linguistics
Core Area Distribution
(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%100
Teaching Methods
ExpressionDiscussionSelf study
Assessment & Evaluation
HomeworkPerformance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / ThesisTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Midterm | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Practice | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | not required |
| 2 | Communicative language teaching, | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter 5 |
| 3 | Communicative language teaching | related papers |
| 4 | Task-based language teaching, | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter 9 |
| 5 | task-based instruction problems | video on task-based + paper |
| 6 | Content-based instruction and content and language integrated learning, | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter 6 + paper |
| 7 | Competency-based instruction, and Common European framework, | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter 8 |
| 8 | Text-based approach and lexical approach | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter, 7, 11 |
| 9 | Interaction in second language learning | Mitchell, Myles and Marsden chapter 6. |
| 10 | Personality factors in ELT | Brown chapter 6 |
| 11 | Post-method Theories 1 | Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Post-method, Chapter 8 |
| 12 | Post-method Theories 2 | Richards and Rodgers, Chapter 20 |
| 13 | ELF and ELT | Current perspectives on pedagogy for English as a lingua franca. Chapter by Kurt. 2015, Sarandi, 2020. |
| 14 | presentations | Yok |
| 15 | Presentation | NO |
| 16 | final | Read related papers |