Course Title

Methods of Teaching English 2

Course Number

473514

Instructor Name

Suzan Arafat

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Second Semester 2020

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

This is the second course in methods of teaching English , it aims at providing students with   sufficient background about different issues related to teaching English as  a foreign languages, it also seeks at introducing students to various practices in teaching and learning English as a foreign languages, it provides students with background information related to learning styles, learning strategies, content evaluation and lesson planning.

The course aims at:

1- Developing students abilities to design, organize and evaluate methods and material for teaching English.

2- Gain theoretical framework and models for teaching English grounded on educational research.

3- Acquire essential subject knowledge and familiarity with the principle of effective teaching.

4- acquire a range of practical skills for teaching English.

5- Demonstrate their abilities to apply their learning in a real teaching context.

6- Work in pairs and small groups to develop and practice teaching English.

7- Engage in reflection on their learning.

The course aims at:

1- Developing students abilities to design, organize and evaluate methods and material for teaching English.

2- Gain theoretical framework and models for teaching English grounded on educational research.

3- Acquire essential subject knowledge and familiarity with the principle of effective teaching.

4- acquire a range of practical skills for teaching English.

5- Demonstrate their abilities to apply their learning in a real teaching context.

6- Work in pairs and small groups to develop and practice teaching English.

7- Engage in reflection on their learning.

The course aims at:

1- Developing students abilities to design, organize and evaluate methods and material for teaching English.

2- Gain theoretical framework and models for teaching English grounded on educational research.

3- Acquire essential subject knowledge and familiarity with the principle of effective teaching.

4- acquire a range of practical skills for teaching English.

5- Demonstrate their abilities to apply their learning in a real teaching context.

6- Work in pairs and small groups to develop and practice teaching English.

7- Engage in reflection on their learning.ر

By the end of the course students are expected to:

1- Identify elements of good Research.

2- Analyze critically research papers.

3- identify key measurement in good presentation.

4- Work in groups to evaluate colleges presentations

5- Present individually or in pairs topics according to what they learned about effective presentation.

6- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses in examples of tests written by school teachers.

7- Criticize techniques in teaching various areas and skills in language teaching including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, reading and writing.

8- Model teaching the skills  using active learning.

9- Describe good classroom management.

By the end of the course students are expected to:

1- Identify elements of good Research.

2- Analyze critically research papers.

3- identify key measurement in good presentation.

4- Work in groups to evaluate colleges presentations

5- Present individually or in pairs topics according to what they learned about effective presentation.

6- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses in examples of tests written by school teachers.

7- Criticize techniques in teaching various areas and skills in language teaching including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, reading and writing.

8- Model teaching the skills  using active learning.

9- Describe good classroom management.

Textbook:

Ur,Penny (2012) A course in Language Teaching: Practice and theory2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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