Course : Applied Linguistics to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
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1. An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
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2. Approaches and Methods in Foreign Language Teaching
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3. The Object of Knowledge in Foreign Language Courses
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4. Foreign Language Knowledge and Course Planning
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5. Foreign Language Curriculum and Syllabus Design
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7. Focus on Learning and the Language Learner
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8. Recent Developments in Foreign Language Teaching Pedagogy
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6. View of Language Acquisition and Learning in Foreign Language Didactics
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1. An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
2. Approaches and Methods in Foreign Language Teaching
This unit focuses on well known approaches and methods used in the teaching of English as a foreign language. The presentation begins with a discussion of the main principles and features of “approach” and “method” and how they relate. The rest of the unit provides an overview of the main principles of well known and widely used methods and closes with a discussion of the drawbacks of methods and the rationale of an eclectic approach.
Presentations
Videolectures
Educational Videos
Multimedia
The Audio-Lingual Method Multimedia
TPR and Language Acquisition Multimedia
Task Based Learning Multimedia
A Communication Lesson
Further Readings
Reader and Workbook
Bell, D. M. (2007). Do teachers think that methods are dead? ELT Journal, 61(2), 135-143.