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This weblog is designed to cover the assignments and projects of the teaching methodology course . This course will consider both theories of language learning and innovative methods to teaching a second language . It focuses on the development of ELT from traditional grammar translation method to communicative approach and beyond to the current post-method era . At the end of this course , students are expected to :

• Learn about approaches to language teaching in the 20th and 21st century .
• Be able to discover the implication of learning theories for language teaching/learning .
• Learn about the development and management of classroom interaction in the educational contexts in which English is taught and learned .
• Evaluate some methods and materials that teachers have used to teach it .
• Understand the links between what teachers and learners do in class and what applied linguistic research tells us about how second languages are learned .
• Be able to evaluate recent EFL/ESL research and its relevance to EFL/ESL teaching and learning .
• Be able to assess the strength and weaknesses of selected models of second language learning .
• Understand the role of various cognitive , linguistic , and demographic factors in the learning of a second or foreign language .
• Understand the ways in which the learning environment can influence language learning .
• Be able to apply the results of research in learning research to the second language classroom .

The required books for this course are listed below :

1. Bailey , K.M. & David Nunan (eds.)(1996). Voices from the language classroom. NY. Cambridge University Press
2. Brown, H. Douglas.(2001). Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman
3. Brown, H. Douglas.(2000). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. 4th ed. Old Tappan, NJ: Pearson
4. Ellis, R. (1991). Instructed second language Acquisition. Blackwell
5. Hall, D.R. & Ann Hewings (eds.) (2001). Innovation in Language Teaching. NY: Routledge
6. Johnson, Keith (2001). An Introduction to Foreign Language Teaching. Longman
7. Lightbown& Spada(2003). How Languages are Learned. OUP
8. Nunan, David (1999). Second Language Teaching & Learning. Newbury House: Teacher Development
9. Richards, J.C. & Rodgers, T.S. (2003). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: A Description and Analysis. (2th ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press
10. Richards, J.C. & Willy A. Renandya (2003). Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge University Press
11. Widdowson, H.G. (1990). Aspects of Language Teaching. OUP
12. Williams, Marion & Robert L. Burden (2002). Psychology for Language Teachers: A social Constructivist Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press