Fall 2004/SPN 691 - Practicum in Teaching of Spanish
Meeting hours: M 1:30 - 4:30 pm LIB N3061
Instructor: Lilia Delfina Ruiz-Debbe
Office Hours: M 4:30- 5:00; T& Th 9:00- 9:45 and Tu 11:15- 12:00 & Th 11:15- 12:30: Room: 3029
The objective of this course is the presentation of the basics principles of learning and teaching of a second language. In order to reach this objective, equal emphasis will be put in the theory and practice, specially in the following topics: Universals of language, second language acquisition, second language learning and language teaching, applied methodology in classroom situations.
Requirements and Evaluation:
Attendance, participation, in-class work: 10%
Assignments: 30%
Final project/Term paper: 60%
Bibliography
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COOK, Vivian.( 2003). The Effects of the Second Language on the First. Multilingual Matters.
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RICHARDS, Jack and LOCKHART, Charles. (1994) Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres. RICHARDS, Jack and RODGERS, Theodore, S. (1996). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIVERS, Wilga (ed) (1987) Interactive Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
RUTHERFORD, William & SHARWOOD, Michael. (Eds.) (1988). Grammar and Second Language Teaching. Newbury House Publishers.
SCARCELLA, Robin C. (1993) "Interethnic Conversation and Second Language Acquisition: DiscourseAccent Revised". In Language Transfer in Language Lerning. Edited by S. Gass and L. Selinker. John Benjamins. ( pp.109 -137). SCHACHTER, Jacqueline. ( 1993). " A New Account of Language Transfer". In Language Transfer in Language Learning. Edited by S. Gass and L. Selinker. John Benjamins. (pp.32 - 46).
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supplementary material:
BACHMAN, Lyle F. And COHEN, Andrew. "Language testing -SLA interfaces: An update". In Interfaces Between Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing Research. Cambridge University Press. ( pp.1- 31)
CHAUDRON, Graig. (1988) Second Language Classroom. Research on Teaching and Learning . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
GEORGE, H.V. ( 1972). Common Errors in Language Learning. Newbury House Publishers.
LITTLEWOOD, William. (1981) Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
LONERGAN, Jack.(1984). Video in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
NICKEL, Gerhard & NEHLS, Dietrich ( eds. ) (1981). Error Analysis Contrastive Linguistics and second Language Learning. Julius Groos Verlag Heidelberg.
OMAGGIO. Alice. (1986) Teaching Language in Context: Proficiency-Oriented Instruction . Boston, Mass.: Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Inc.
PHILLIPSON, Robert et al. (eds.) (1991) Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy Research. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Attendance is required at all class sessions. If a student is unable to attend, s/he is expected to inform the professor of the reason for absence. à Assignments will be assigned throughout the term. Late assignments will NOT be accepted.
The Final Project/Term Paper will be due on Dec. 13 before 1:00 pm. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have a physical or mental disability, which will make it difficult to carry out the work as outlined for this course, or which will require extra time on examinations, please notify me as soon as possible as to make appropriate arrangements.
The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature will report any cases of academic dishonesty to the Academic Judiciary Committee. This will result in the grade of "Q" on the student's transcript which cannot be removed until the student takes and passes a seminar on "Academic Dishonesty". Academic dishonesty includes plagiarism (copying someone else's ideas/words without citing them), cheating-during exams, quizzes, copying homeworks, and all other types.