LeeAnne Godfrey

Document Type

Syllabi

School

HSE

Department

ADAL

Course Subject

ESL

Course Number

8100

Course Section

03

Course Title

Linguistics for Language Tchrs

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2018

Credits

4

Course Description

The first goal or this course is to guide you through a discovery of the broad field of linguistics and how it applies to you as a language teacher. However, because this course is often taken early in your program, the second goal is to help you develop skills needed by language professionals and graduate students alike, such as finding and researching the literature for a research topic/problem; narrowing down the topic; analyzing the problem, and writing a paper about it. Also, since this course is mostly taken by prospective language teachers, we will talk about research skills needed to identify, analyze, and solve problems that come up in English-language teaching situations. But these skills are easily transferable to other language teaching contexts. The course goals we have are closely related to each other and apply to both groups, graduate students and prospective teachers, both dealing with language teaching. The goals of the class are to assist teachers in assessing and improving their own educational practices in order to become more effective teachers of second language learning students; to help teachers become better informed advocates for students from minority- language backgrounds; and to give teachers information and models for helping others in schools alter their understanding of language issues and improve classroom practices. This course will prepare you to: ● understand that teachers are classroom researchers able to answer the linguistic questions that language teachers face; ● identify the core areas of linguistics and how they are relevant to language teaching; ● apply newly acquired knowledge linguistic knowledge and investigative strategies to research the issues that come up in language classrooms; ● access the literature on language learning and the data sources of such teaching and learning research; ● be able to demonstrate your understanding of linguistic issues by presenting research-based support for your positions.

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