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175-231/331 Second Language Learning and Teaching

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Dr Michè le de Courcy.

Prerequisite: Normally at least 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level, or 37.5 points of modern language study at first-year level.

Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:-

• demonstrate familiarity with the central issues of second language acquisition;
• demonstrate familiarity with several theoretical models of second language acquisition;
• discuss the history and development of second and foreign language teaching methodology;
• discuss the fundamental contributions of Applied Linguistics to our knowledge of second language learning and teaching;

Content:

This subject will provide an introduction to the study of second language learning and teaching. Some early second language acquisition research into morpheme acquisition orders and developmental sequences will be studied, as well as variability and individual differences in second language acquisition. In the subject, a range of theoretical models of second language acquisition will be examined and evaluated in relation to recent empirical findings. This subject will examine the contribution of applied linguistics in the field of second language teaching; in particular, the evolution of different approaches to language curriculum over the past fifty years, focusing on developments in communicative approaches over the past twenty years, recent developments in teaching methodology, the place of grammar teaching, and reading and writing as cognitive processes and literacy as a social issue. The third part of the subject will consider major issues in bilingualism, language policy and planning, and multiculturalism with a focus on the implications for language teaching programs.

Assessment:

Six pieces of homework and one essay, totalling not more than 5,000 words

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 64)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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