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Boise State
University
Teacher
Education Course Syllabus
Course:
Methods
of Teaching ESL Course Number: ED BLESL 304 Section: 001
Schedule: Thursday
6-9 pm, E 330
Instructor:
Roberto Bahruth Office
Hours: 1/2 hour before or after class or by appointment
Email:RobertoBahruth@boisestate.edu Phone: 426 33680
Conceptual
Framework: The Professional Educator
Boise State University
strives to develop knowledgeable educators who integrate complex roles and
dispositions in the service of diverse communities of learners. Believing that
all children, adolescents, and adults can learn, educators dedicate themselves
to supporting that learning. Using effective approaches that promote high levels
of student achievement, educators create environments that prepare learners to
be citizens who contribute to a complex world. Educators serve learners as
reflective practitioners, scholars and artists, problem solvers, and partners.
Standards
and Assessments
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Standards/Indicators Addressed
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Assessment Methods
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Standard
1
- The
teacher knows the key linguistic structures, articulatory system and
vocabulary of the English language
- The
teacher understands the variety of purposes that languages serve,
distinguishing between functions and contextual usage of social and
academic language.
Disposition
- The
teacher appreciates the importance of understanding the evolution and
existence of bilingual and ENL programs
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ocused
academic dialogue journals/learner's log; attendance; class participation;
presentations; synthesis paper
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Performance
- The
teacher uses knowledge of
content
areas to establish goals, design curricula and instruction, and facilitate
student’s learning in a manner that builds on students’ linguistic and
cultural diversity
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Standard
4
1.
The teacher knows how to adapt lessons, textbooks, and other
instructional materials to meet the needs of language learners
Disposition
- The
teacher recognizes the need for appropriate instructional materials
and methods for language learners
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Focused
academic dialogue journals/learner's log; attendance; class participation;
presentation of sample lessons
Demonstration
of methods; lesson presentations
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Course
Description
This
course teaches current approaches, resources and classroom organizational
patterns. Problem-solving
strategies for dealing with issues and problems regarding the development of
communicative competency are addressed. PREREQ:
ED BLESL 201.
TEXTS:
Using the Natural Approach with the NOPD ... Jackson et al.
The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Spanish).
Gaitán
Literacy Con Cariño
Hayes et al.
Schedule
Week
1: Introduction:
Paradigm Shift: Traditional & Non-traditional Language Teaching/Why
Theory?/Politics of monolingualism./Tracking/Technicism
Week
2: Communicative Competence/DIN/Preproduction
to Intermediate Fluency
Week
3: Caregiving L1-SLA
Theory/Psycholinguistic Guessing Game
Grammatical categories/Lindfors
CC/style/register/laconicity/Markedness
Week
4: Interlanguage/Time to learn SL
(5 yrs)/fossilization/natural order/sequence/
Week
5: Bilingual Ed/ Cummins
Framework/CUP/BICS-CALP/Activities & critiques
Week
6: Sources of I+1/ESL-EFL/Interactive
errands/Morelia faux pas /Reading/DJ
Week
7: Assessment/Error
correction/advocate vs adversary
Week
8: Literacy: Freire, Macedo, Smith, Graves/ LCC slides & books
Week
9: Procedure/democratization/cooperative
learning
Week
10: Presentations begin ________________________
Week
11: ________________________
Week
12: ________________________
Week
13: Presentations end
________________________
Week
14: Analysis, Synthesis,
Application - Theory into Practice
Week
15: Summary Discussion/Questions
and answers/Reflection Paper
Week
16: Final discussion & review.
Project
Suggestions:
Adult-child
vs. Child-child Interaction (Hatch/Richard-Amato, Long Scarcella)
Survival
ESL and Hidden Agendas (Shor)
Caregiver
Speech
Sociolinguistic
Issues (BEEBE/Wolfson)
ERRORS
Ethnography
of Teaching (A study of Applied Linguistics in S 297) Partner from FL 412.
ED
291 427 Resource Manual for ACC/ESL
Select
an issue related to applied linguistics (the teaching of grammar, error
correction, types of errors, cross-cultural miscommunication, etc.) &
develop, present and videotape a lesson for a group of ESL students, and provide
a critique of the lesson.
Academic Honesty
Cheating or plagiarism in any form is
unacceptable. The University functions to promote the cognitive and psychosocial
development of all students. Therefore, all work submitted by a student must
represent her/his own ideas, concepts, and current understanding. Academic
dishonesty also includes submitting substantial portions of the same academic
course work to more than one course for credit without prior permission of the
instructor(s).
Grading
Procedures
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Percentage
of
Grade
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Description of Assignment
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20
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PROJECT: To be done with a partner of your choice:
Apply knowledge related to the course while working with a second
language learner in a semester long tutorial (CAMP or local school).
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with assignment, and follow up lesson to debrief assignment.
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20
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HOMEWORK:
Academic dialogue journals are a standard requirement to
be
exchanged at each class meeting. Each
writing partner must provide
a
journal so a two-way exchange is possible. Entries in these journals
must
be dated, and both partners'
names should be on the covers.
Journals
will be evaluated by the instructor at the end of the course for
quantity
& quality.
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Attendance and
Participation: If you're absent of consistently late this will retract
from
your grades proportionally. We all
have an obligation with a reciprocal interaction
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40
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FINAL
REFLECTION PAPER:
An analysis, synthesis, application paper
focusing
on major concepts and issues raised during class discussions,
projects,
and in readings which demonstrates comprehension of course
objectives.
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GRADING:
Grading
Scale: A+ to A=Outstanding A- to B=Good B- to C=Acceptable
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