TEFL METHODOLOGY
- Course
- ELTE505 - TEFL METHODOLOGY
- Department
- English Language Teaching - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Abbas HADIZADEH
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
This course studies diverse foreign or second language teaching methods and how they differ from one another from the perspective of approach, design, and procedure. It provides students with insights into the characteristics of each method and enables them to choose an appropriate procedure for a specific context and deliver their lessons accordingly. The course covers the teaching of language items (pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and discursive features, the development of four macro language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the realization of language functions, and the development of language strategies. Students will be able to compare traditional and communicative approaches and carry out research into teaching English as foreign or second language Teaching.
TEFL METHODOLOGY
Evaluation Tools (Active Term)
| Item | Type | Weight (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Final | Final | 50 |
| Presentation | Presentation | 20 |
| Midterm | Project | 30 |
| Total | 100 | |
Course outcomes
- 01 1. At the end of the semester, students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge about diverse methods of teaching.
- 02 2. They will be able to analyse and contrast diverse language teaching methods.
- 03 3. They will be able to design a lesson plan appropriate to a given method of language teaching.
- 04 4. They will be able to design a lesson plan appropriate to a given method of language teaching.
- 05 5. They will be able to design a lesson plan appropriate to a given method of language teaching
- 06 6. They will be able to design a lesson plan appropriate to a given method of language teaching
- 07 7. Students will be able to define the current issues in the ELT field.
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to TEFL Methodology: What Does Language Teaching Involve? (Course orientation; beliefs about teaching; approach, method, procedure, technique) |
| Week 2 | Historical Foundations of Language Teaching (Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Audiolingualism; assumptions about language and learning) |
| Week 3 | The Communicative Turn in Language Teaching (CLT; communicative competence; strong/weak CLT; Cooperative Language Learning) |
| Week 4 | Contemporary Communicative Approaches (TBLT, Content-Based Instruction, CLIL, text/genre-based teaching) |
| Week 5 | Beyond Methods: Post-method and Principled Pedagogy (Critique of the methods concept; teacher agency; context-sensitive pedagogy) |
| Week 6 | From SLA Research to Language Teaching (Input, interaction, output, noticing, focus on form; evidence-informed pedagogy) |
| Week 7 | Classroom Interaction, Corrective Feedback & Teaching Language Systems (Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation; interaction and feedback) |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exam Period |
| Week 9 | Teaching Language Skills in Contemporary ELT (Listening, speaking, reading, writing; integrated-skills instruction) |
| Week 10 | Syllabus, Tasks, Materials & Lesson Design (Syllabus design; task/project work; materials evaluation/adaptation; lesson planning) |
| Week 11 | Learner Differences, Motivation & Classroom Management (Individual differences; learner autonomy; motivation; classroom interaction and management) |
| Week 12 | Multilingualism, Translanguaging, Global Englishes & ELF (Challenging monolingual/native-speaker assumptions; multilingual pedagogy) |
| Week 13 | Technology, Digital Pedagogy & Generative AI in ELT (CALL, multimodality, AI-supported teaching; teacher/learner roles; ethical and critical use) |
| Week 14 | From Methods to a Personal, Research-Informed Pedagogy (Teacher cognition; reflective practice; contextualizing methodology; student synthesis/presentations) |
| Week 15 | Final Exams |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 1. Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (2014). Approaches and methods in language teaching (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- 02 2. Loewen, S., & Sato, M. (2024). A practical guide to second language teaching and learning. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108780520
- 03 3. Nunan, David Second Language Teaching and Learning (1999) , Massachusetts: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Learning Outcomes
- L01 1. Students will be able to analyse and evaluate various language teaching methods and contrast them,
- L02 2.Students will be able to choose the appropriate techniques to teach English effectively,
- L03 3. Students will be able to make use of the ideas presented in the course in their own teaching.
- L04 4. Students will be able to define the current issues in the ELT field .
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