1. | Introduction to the Class |
2. | Personalities in the classroom How do the personalities of the teachers and the students affect language learning? |
3. | Personalities in the classroom continued |
4. | Language learning strategies What are language learning strategies? How can we train students to be independent language learners? How can we encourage students to choose the best strategies according to their own learning preferences. |
5. | Language learning strategies continued |
6. | Interactive language teaching What is interactive language teaching? Why does cooperative learning work so well in the second language classroom? What techniques andprocedures can teachers adopt? |
7. | Interactive language teaching continued |
8. | Integrating the "Four Skills" What communicative ways are there to integrate the four skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing) in the classroom. |
9. | Integrating the "Four Skills" continued |
10. | Teaching listening comprehension in the communicative classroom What are the goals of listening? How can we design real life listeningtasks for even low level students. |
11. | Teaching listening comprehension in the communicative classroom continued |
12. | Teaching oral communication skills in the communicative classroom How can we get our students to talk? What kinds of activities can wedesign for our students? |
13. | Week 13 Review and discussion of previous weeks. Additional handouts will be Distributed |