Graduate Education Institute · English Language Teaching · Master
ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Hidayet SARANDİ
Course Objective
The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of the language skills and subskills, including grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, speaking.
Course Content
- To become familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of language skills and subskills including grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing.
- To become familiar with recent research studies conducted in the related areas, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening,
- To conceptualize and build an initial theoretical basis for the student's future MA thesis.
Required Resources
- Tricia Hedge.2000. Teaching and Learning in Language classroom. Oxford.
- Eli Henkel.2017. Third edition. Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning
- Norbert Schmitt, Diane Schmitt - Vocabulary in Language Teaching (Second Edition)-Cambridge University Press (2020)
- William Grabe, Fredricka L. Stoller (2011), Teaching and Researching Reading-Routledge
- Ken Hylland (2021). Teaching and Researching Writing. (4thEdition). Taylor and Francis.
Recommended Resources
- J. I. Liontas. 2018. The TESOL encyclopedia in English Language Teaching. Volume 3-4-5.
- Andrea Nava, Luciana Pedrazzini (2018). Second language acquisition in action. Bloomsbury.
- Related articles
Course Learning Outcomes
- Student will become familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of the language skills and subskills including reading, listening, speaking and writing, grammar and vocabulary
- students become familiar with recent research studies conducted in the related areas.
- students conceptualize and build initial theoretical basis for students future MA thesis.
Core Area Distribution
(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%100
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionSelf 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) | 18 | 3 | 54 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Midterm | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Practice | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Not needed |
| 2 | Age in learning and teaching grammar (2633-2637) in TESOL encyclopedia Comprehensible input and output (2658-2663) in TESOL encyclopedia Comprehension and Production strategies in language learning (2001) Peter Skehan | Read the assign pages beforehand |
| 3 | Current issues in teaching grammar: An SLA perspectives (TESOL Quarterly 2006) Corrective Feedback (Icy Lee, 2013: Research into Practice: written corrective feedback) Teacher written corrective feedback: Less is more (Lee 2019) | Skehan, Chapter 4 Related paper |
| 4 | Corrective Feedback (Icy Lee, 2013: Research into Practice: written corrective feedback) Form, meaning and Use ( in Second language acquisition in action) | read the related book chapter and the article |
| 5 | Form, meaning and Use Oral Corrective feedback: A question of classification and application English Preparatory learners’ beliefs regarding grammar instruction | Read the related aricles |
| 6 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching chapter 1,2 | read the related chapters |
| 7 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 3 | read the related chapters |
| 8 | midterm | read the chapters and papers |
| 9 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 4,6,7 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 4,6,7 |
| 10 | Teaching and researching reading chapter 1-2 | Teaching and researching reading chapter 1-2 |
| 11 | Teaching and researching reading Chapter 3-4 | Teaching and researching reading Chapter 3-4 |
| 12 | Teaching and researching reading Chapter 5-6 | Teaching and researching reading Chapter 5-6 |
| 13 | Teaching and Researching writing, chapter 1, 2 | Teaching and Researching writing, chapter 1, 2 |
| 14 | Teaching and Researching writing, Chapter 3, 4 | Teaching and Researching writing, Chapter 3, 4 |
| 15 | listening Hinkel chapter 15-16 | Hinkel chapter 15-16 |
| 16 | final | all chapters |


