TESOL Approaches and Strategies

Course aim

To enable students to critique different approaches and strategies in teaching English as an additional language or dialect (EALD) and develop skills in designing pedagogical practices that are socially and culturally responsive to particular TESOL circumstances.

Course content

Students will learn the complexity in TESOL settings, factors affecting ESOL and TESOL, learning resources, teacher responsibility and agency in TESOL, principles and criteria for critiquing, adapting and designing learning activities, resources and assessment practices, principles of learning and teaching English as an additional language or dialect, setting up interactive learning, including the use of ICTs, relationships among communicative, genre-based, task-based, discourse and intercultural approaches; connections with other areas of learning (in educational institutions or the workplace).

Textbook(s)

Derewianka, B. 2011, A new grammar companion for teachers., Primary English Teaching Association

Harmer, J 2015, The practice of English language teaching, 5th ed, Pearson/Longman, Harlow, England

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
EDUC 5180	Learning an Additional Language

The listed prequisite or with the approval of the Program Director.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Workshop	2 hours x 10 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	2 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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