UniMelb UGHB96 : 483-317 School Studies C47: Teaching English As A Second Language (Tesl) I

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483-317 School Studies C47: Teaching English As A Second Language (Tesl) I

Note:

This subject can be taken as a single subject without the practice teaching component. However, if you wish to be registered for specialist Teaching English as a Second Language positions you must complete School Studies C47: Teaching English as a Second Language, School Studies D47: Teaching English as a Second Language and the practice teaching outlined in the Special Requirements.
Special Requirements: Students will be required to do the June School Experience placement in a school with an appropriate ESL program.

Credit points: 5.0

Coordinator: Carla Finocchiaro.

Pre/Corequisite: School Studies B44. Students must also have completed or be concurrently enrolled in School Studies C40 to enrol in this subject.

Contact: A 2-hour class each week for ten weeks.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

understand basic theories of second language teaching and learning; and
as generalist teachers, understand and use approaches to teaching English as a Second Language.

Content:

English from the viewpoint of the second language learner. Topics include: how English is structured as a language, English as a system for communication, the methodology of second language teaching, second language acquisition, syllabus design, and error analysis.

Assessment:

Assignments totalling not more than 2,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

Brown G and Yule G Teaching Spoken English Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983
Directorate of School Education ESL Essential Melbourne 1992
Vale D et. al. Pocket ALL Curriculum Corporation Carlton 1991
Ventriglia L Conversations of Miguel and Maria: How Children Learn a Second Language - Implications for Classroom Teaching Addison-Wesley Sydney 1982

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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