TEFL METHODOLOGY
- Course
- ELTE505 - TEFL METHODOLOGY
- Department
- English Language Teaching - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Scientific Preparation
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 0
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 0 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Abbas HADIZADEH
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
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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
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