Course overview
This course will 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. 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).
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse and critique a TESOL learning and teaching environment
- Analyse and critique classroom tasks
- Critique the beliefs about language learning and teaching which underpin diverse TESOL approaches, strategies and materials
- Establish criteria to assess the usefulness of approaches, strategies and materials in particular learning environments
- Evaluate the use of a range of practical classroom activities, teaching techniques, materials and assessment strategies
- Evaluate the use of ICTs in teaching and learning in EAL and NAP settings