Foreign Language Teaching Methods: About this Site

Jump to Module: Introduction Assessment Classroom Management Culture Grammar The Language Teacher The Language Learner Listening Pragmatics Reading Speaking Technology Vocabulary Writing

Introduction

• Welcome
• Meet the Class
  • Course Instructors
  • Beginning Teachers
• Site Tour

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Assessment

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Language Assessment
  • Overview
  • Sample Test
  • Definitions
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Indirect Assessment
  • Multiple Choice
  • Fill-in-the-Blank
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Direct Assessment
  • Direct Assessment
  • Language Level
  • Feedback
  • Score Interpretation
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Key Ideas in Assessment
  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Assessment for Learning
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Classroom Management

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Management, Discipline, and Control
  • Classroom Management as a Field of Inquiry
  • Discipline: Student Conduct and Classroom Management
  • Remote Control: Classroom Management Software
  • Review
• Lesson 2: The Physical Classroom
  • Some Classroom Types
  • The Technology Classroom
  • Comfort in the Classroom
  • How Many Students per Class?
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Between Planning and Improvisation
  • How Much Improvisation?
  • In-Class Activities, Planned and Unplanned
  • The Syllabus
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Class Culture
  • The Culturally Responsive Classroom
  • Helicopter Parents
  • Non-Native Language Teachers
  • The "Caring Classroom"
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Culture

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Culture? What Culture?
  • Culture as a Fifth Skill
  • Definitions of Culture
  • Which Culture?
  • Linguoculture
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Proficiency and Cultural Literacy
  • Proficiency
  • Cultural Literacy
  • Types of "Texts"
  • Review
• Lesson 3: The Case for Visual Medial to Teach Culture
  • Video-based Instruction
  • Video Selection
  • Video Exploitation
  • Review
• Lesson 4: A Web-Based Approach to Language and Culture
  • Using the Internet
  • About Rockin' Russian
  • Sample Video
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Grammar

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Definitions of Grammar
  • An Inclusive Definition
  • Oral vs. Written Language
  • A Contextualized Definition
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Elements of Grammar Instruction
  • Explicit Approach
  • Metalinguistic Awareness
  • Auto-input and Output Processing
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Inductive Approaches to Teaching Grammar
  • Defining Induction on a Continuum
  • Guided Induction in Practice
  • Illustration of Guided Induction
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Implementing a Guided Induction Approach
  • Elements of Guided Induction
  • Restructuring Existing Lessons
  • In the Classroom
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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The Language Teacher

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Joining the Profession
  • What You Need to Know
  • Professionalization
  • Historical Perspectives
• Lesson 2: ACTFL Guidelines and National Standards
  • ACTFL Guidelines
  • National Standards
• Lesson 3: Principles of Communicative Language Teaching
  • Communicative Language Teaching
  • Integration
  • Sequencing
• Lesson 4: Professional Development
  • Putting Methods into Practice
  • Life-long Learning
• Conclusion
• Resources

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The Language Learner

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Why FL Teachers Need to Know about Learners
  • The Learner's Perspective
  • Disconnect Between Teachers and Learners
  • Learner Characteristics
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Motivation
  • Motivation Predicts Success
  • Instrumental Motivation
  • Integrative Motivation
  • Maintaining Motivation
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Anxiety
  • Learners' Accounts
  • Sources of Anxiety
  • Ways to Decrease Anxiety
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Learner Beliefs
  • Examples of Learner Beliefs
  • Significance of Learner Beliefs
  • Responding to Beliefs
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Listening

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Thinking of Listening
  • Why is Listening Important?
  • Challenges in Teaching Listening
  • Guiding Principles
  • Questions for the Listening Classroom
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Approaching a Listening Text
  • Pre-Listening
  • While Listening
  • Intensive Listening
  • Post-Listening
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Putting it into Practice
  • Pre-listening
  • After First Listen
  • After Second Listen
  • Intensive Listening
  • Post-Listening
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Listening Online
  • Introduction to Aswaat Arabiyya
  • Teaching Listening with Aswaat Arabiyya
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Pragmatics

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Terms and Scope
  • What is Pragmatics?
  • Sociocultural Norms
  • Speech Acts
  • Face-Threatening Acts
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Cross-cultural Communication
  • Language and Culture
  • Language Functions
  • Appropriateness
  • Second Language Sociocultural Norms
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Pragmatics in the L2 Classroom
  • Contextualized Practice
  • Dialogue
  • Formulas
  • Metapragmatic Discussion
  • Building Awareness of Sociocultural Norms
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Pragmatics and Proficiency Levels
  • Teachability of Pragmatics
  • Pragmatics and Language Proficiency Levels
  • Evaluation of Language Production
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Reading

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: What is Reading?
  • Definitions of Reading
  • A Holistic Approach to Reading
  • Readability and the Holistic Approach
  • Review
• Lesson 2: From Pre-Reading to Intitial Reading
  • Reading as a Process
  • Pre-Reading
  • Initial Reading
  • Guided Matrix
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Rereading
  • The Importance of Rereading
  • Rereading Strategies
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Challenges of the Holistic Approach
  • Use of the L1
  • Time Constraints
  • Assessing Reading Outcomes
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Speaking

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Defining Communication
  • Communication or Practice?
  • Communicative Competence
  • Models of Communication
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Challenges and Benefits of Communicative Tasks
  • Challenges of Communicative Tasks
  • Benefits of Communicative Tasks
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Designing Communicative Tasks
  • What Is a Task?
  • Design Principles
  • Unsuccessful Tasks
  • Analyzing Tasks
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Implementing Communicative Tasks
  • Guidelines
  • A Narrative Activity
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Technology

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Time on Task
  • Need for More Time on Task
  • Increasing Time on Task
  • Increasing Quality of Time on Task
  • Additional Ideas
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Context
  • Context in Language Learning
  • Contextualizing Language with Multimedia
  • Two Ways to Contextualize
  • Learning by Doing
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Chunks and Scripts
  • What are Chunks and Scripts?
  • Chunks and Scripts in Student Blogs
  • Learning Chunks and Scripts with Video
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Input vs. Intake
  • What's the Difference?
  • Enhancing Intake through Technology
  • Should Technology Replace the Textbook?
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Vocabulary

• Introduction
• Lesson 1: The Importance of Vocabulary
  • Teacher Training Shortfalls
  • Actively Teaching Vocabulary
  • Review
• Lesson 2: Rethinking the Place of Vocabulary
  • Problems with Contextualization
  • Lexical Approach
  • Pedagogical Sequences
  • Review
• Lesson 3: Vocabulary in Français interactif
  • Decontextualized Exercises
  • Progression to Contextualized Exercises
  • Authentic Language Samples
  • Review
• Lesson 4: Input to Output
  • Traditional Grammar Practice
  • Structured Input Activities
  • Structured Output Activities
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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Writing

• Introduction
• Overview of L2 Writing
  • The Nature of L2 Writing
  • Design Principles
  • Teaching with Different Orthographies
  • Classroom Considerations
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Review
• Designing L2 Writing Tasks
  • Preliminary Decisions
  • Activity Sets: A Process Approach to Writing
  • Pre-Writing
  • During-Writing
  • Post-Writing
  • Review
• Creative Writing
  • Arguments for Creative Writing in the L2 Classroom
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Performance
  • Review
• Assessing Writing
  • Feedback vs. Grading
  • Content vs. Accuracy
  • Types of Scoring
  • Portfolio Assessment
  • Editing
  • Review
• Conclusion
• Portfolio
• Resources

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