Course Contents

Week 1 • History of English Language Teaching in the 20th Century • The ‘mainstream’ and its relationship with ‘designer methods’ • The Importance of Methods in an ESL Situation Week 1 • Description, analysis and review of: Grammar Translation method • Application Of Activities And Classroom Situation. • Discussion Week 2 • Audio Lingual method • Techniques and principles used in audio lingual method Week 3 • Direct Instruction • Techniques and principles used in direct instruction • Experience of an English Class with the Application of Direct Method Week 4 • Suggestopædia, • Glimpses of a classroom • Discussion about classroom experience with reference to observations and principles Week 5 • Silent Way, • Introduction • Experience • Discussion about classroom experience with reference to • observations and principles Week 6 • Total Physical Response • Experience • Planning a lesson in TPR Week 7 Cooperative learning • Cooperative learning • Experiences in CL WEEK 8 Communicative Language Learning Week 9 • Eclectic Methods Week 10 • The child as a language learner ( Nunan & Linse) • Teaching listening and speaking to young learners • Teaching reading to young learners Week 11 • Teaching writing to young learners • Teaching vocabulary to young learners Week 12 • Examination of current ELT materials: from course books to source books • The relationship between approach and materials • Focus on the learner: Learning styles and strategies (Nunan) Week 13 • The influence of Language and SLA theories on classroom practice Week 14 • Strategies based instruction (Brown) • Future trends in ELT Week 15 Presentations • Presentations WEEK 16 FINAL EXAM

Course Synopsis

The aim of the module is to familiarize students with historical and current trends, methods and approaches in language teaching and learning. It aims to provide a framework, in part historical and in part pedagogic, from which to examine current working practices. Published materials will be critically examined and assessed to assist in establishing the context of 21st century language education and its relationship with Second Language Acquisition research. The module also seeks to encourage considerations of future directions in English language

Course Learning Outcomes

• On successful completion of the course students will be able to: • Identify and describe specific language teaching approaches and methods • Critically review a variety of language teaching approaches and methods • Chart the historical progress of recent language teaching methodology • Position current methodological trends within an SLA framework • Critically review a variety of published ELT materials