Principles and Practices of Language Teaching
Provides an overview of language teaching and learning principles from both historic and current perspectives. Illustrates application of teaching principles through practical examples.
Introduction to Classroom Observation
Develops skills in classroom observation and an understanding of observation as a fundamental professional development and research activity
Language Analysis
Serves as an introduction to linguistic analysis. Includes projects based on fieldwork in phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, and pragmatics. Discusses importance of language awareness. Includes pedagogical strategies for consciousness-raising.
Educational Research Methods
Introduces social science research design, descriptive and analytic procedures, basic statistics, and their application to research on language learning and teaching.
Sociolinguistics
Introduces the interplay between language and society. Discusses regional and social dialects as well as the role of linguistic attitudes and language variation in language learning and teaching.
Curriculum Design
Explores areas of theory, research and practice that have a bearing on curriculum and syllabus design. Leads students to develop their own curriculum design projects. Prerequisite: Principles and Practices of Language Teaching
Language Assessment
Considers issues in language testing including reliability, validity, test bias, and ethics. Examines differences and similarities among placement, proficiency, achievement, aptitude, and performance testing. Explores alternative evaluation procedures. Prepares students to evaluate tests and to develop original language tests. Prerequisites: Language Analysis and Educational Research Methods.
Second Language Acquisition
Surveys, in seminar format, research in second-language learning relating to language teaching and learning. Discusses the role of affective variables, interaction, learner strategies, and learner factors in the language acquisition process. Prerequisite: Language Analysis
Practicum
Provides students with an opportunity for supervised teaching experience in ESL or foreign language classes. Discusses classroom-centered research; reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities; professional development; materials development; and reflective teaching. Prerequisites: all other required courses.
Portfolio Preparation
Consists of a series of workshops leading to the integration of issues and ideas in the MA program, and to the development of a portfolio of work.
Structure of English (TESOL)
Examines the syntax and discourse of modern English for ESL and EFL teaching. Spotlights practical applications for the classroom. Prerequisite: Language Analysis
Applied Linguistics Research (TESOL)
Requires original research to be conducted by the student on language attitudes, cultural variables, language learning, or other topics from sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. Prerequisites: Language Analysis, Educational Research Methods, and either Second Language Acquisition or Sociolinguistics.
Target Language Courses (TFL)
Offers students a choice from appropriate language study courses with approval of language program head and TFL advisor.
Pedagogical Grammar for Foreign Language Education (TFL)
Develops formal and functional skill in teaching the target language through the design of communicative activities and lesson plans, the development of explicit and implicit teaching strategies, and the investigation of technology and web-based resources in the target language. Students gain a solid grasp of pedagogical grammar in their target languages.
Teaching of Reading
Explores reading, including traditional ESL and English approaches. Examines reader response theory and discourse analysis for understanding aspects of written text and learners' reactions to it. Practical applications included.
Teaching of Writing
Surveys theories and research in first and second language composition. Explores various types of written texts and discusses means of responding effectively to student writing.
Structure of the Korean Language
Examines various aspects of the Korean language structure, which is essential in teaching Korean in the classroom and also in constructing the instructional syllabus of the Korean language. Includes the description of the phonetic, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse structure of Korean.
Methods of Teaching Japanese
Explores issues involved in teaching Japanese in different settings such as high school, community college, universities and private companies. Includes textbook/material selection, curriculum and course design, and class activities.
Language Program Administration (LPA) Certificate Courses
Introduction to Language Program Administration
Presents a practical overview of problems, situations, and issues occurring in the management of language programs.
Language Teacher Education
Investigates issues related to teacher training, education and development. Examines various philosophies and models of pre-service and in-service programs for training language teachers, thus building professional skills for students to be competent and confident teacher educators.
Language Teacher Supervision
Provides language teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the challenges of supervision. Examines current models of, and research on, language teacher supervision. Students practice observing teachers and conducting post-observation conferences, developing their ability to provide professional feedback, differentiate between evaluative and developmental supervision, and examine the variables related to working with teachers in a variety of specific contexts.
Additional courses required: Financial Accounting, Marketing Management, Public Budgeting
Introduction to Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of supporting a learning process using technology. Familiarizes students with existing software and introduces various ways of designing teaching aids. Examines how to integrate technology in the language learning classroom.
CALL and Curriculum Integration
Addresses the challenges and benefits that technology-enhanced instruction and learning create for teachers and their learners. Investigates the pedagogical rationale and value of integrating CALL practices into second and foreign language curricula.
Computer-Assisted Assessment
Examines currently available computer-assisted language assessments and test construction software. Discusses ways in which computer technology can enhance the validity of assessments as well as the delivery and scoring of assessments. Students design a computer-assisted assessment measure.
PC/MAC Troubleshooting
Explores ways to effectively address the software and hardware needs and problems of language teachers.
Online and Distance Education
Explores how to create, develop, teach and participate in online and distance courses. Investigates the difference between online and face-to-face interaction by examining online courses, experimenting with planning online courses, discovering how to create and sustain an online community and learning how to take advantage of available technology.
Using the Internet for Language Teaching
Examines the Internet as a teaching tool, a unique communication device, and a cultural resource. Includes the use of online journal articles, online teaching/learning material, online examples of how the Internet is being used to teach languages.
Web Design for Language Teaching
Explores language websites and focuses on issues behind successful website design for language teaching. Students design and construct a language website to meet their teaching needs.
