CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
- Course
- ELTE605 - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
- Department
- English Language Teaching - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
This course focuses on recent contemporary issues in teaching English as a second or foreign language with an emphasis on information communication technology (ICT), embedded learning, lifelong language learning and continuous teacher training (in European Union and other countries). The world-wide contemporary debates in foreign and second language education form the part of the course. The key pedagogical issues and the latest research findings are also included. The course also examines critical aspects of individual learner differences from a sociocultural and psychological perspective. Various language teaching methodologies are examined in changing local and global context and the strengths and weaknesses of each are discussed.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Basic terms in contemporary issues in ELT |
| Week 2 | Language policy in the Council of Europe and the world |
| Week 3 | Virtual foreign language education during Covid 19 |
| Week 4 | Articial Intelligence and language learning |
| Week 5 | Multiple Intelligences in Language learning |
| Week 6 | Changes in Language Teaching content |
| Week 7 | New trends in language teaching methodology |
| Week 8 | Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 | ICT-embedded language learning |
| Week 10 | Changes in the view of foreign language teachers |
| Week 11 | The future of language learning and teaching |
| Week 12 | Developing intercultural competences in EFL classes |
| Week 13 | Presenting term projects - |
| Week 14 | Presenting term projects and evaluation of the course |
| Week 15 | Final Exam |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Council of Europe (2001) Common European framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment. Strasbourg, CoE, Cambridge University Press
- 02 Demirel, Ö. Ed. (2019) Contemporary Issues in ELT. 2nd edition Ankara: Pegem Akademi
- 03 Kramsch, C., 1998. Context and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford: OUP
- 04 Varela,M.C., F.J.F.Polo,L.G.Garcia andM.P.Martinez, eds (2010) Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning: An International Perspective, London:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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