TESOL Methods

This course presents techniques for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills to English as a Second Language learners. In this course, I learned about the 6 principles of exemplary teaching of English learners, various teaching methods, multiple intelligences, learning styles, Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning domains, how to create a lesson plan, and how to assess students.

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Introduction to Linguistics

This course offers an introduction to the history and construction of languages and to the basic linguistic concepts of learning a second language, such as grammar, pragmatics and syntax. Key topics include grammar, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics pragmatics (the speech setting: assumptions, body language, etc.), dialects (areal, social, professional, creole and pidgin languages), writing systems and computational linguistics.

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Cultural Perspectives

This course presents an intensive consideration of culture and diversity and their impacts in school classrooms. Instruction focuses on the nature and manifestations of culture, methods and strategies for learning about cultural differences and similarities, and strategies for diversity inclusiveness. Examine the values, customs, mores and communication styles of cultural groups; interpret the communicative behavior of individual students; and understand how these various factors impact teaching.

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Instructional Technologies

Instructional Technologies presents and evaluates current technologies and their applications that may be used the classroom. Students learn strategies for overcoming technophobia among English teachers and learners.

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