Teaching Reading & Writing
This course will look at how to teach reading, writing and vocabulary. The reading section will start off with a section about what is reading in first and second language settings. It will also work on the skills that are needed for a teacher to design a reading course, write a lesson plan that includes pre, during and post reading activities and finally methods of assessment of reading in the classroom. The writing section of the course will explore the overlap between reading and writing, the organizational process, and the differences in writing genres. It will also explore how to assess writing and how to use grammar in writing. The vocabulary section of the course will look at different ways to teach vocabulary including the use of context, etymology, a dictionary, a thesaurus and the use of corpus data. This course has overlap with Teaching Reading and Vocabulary. This course will attempt to teach students how to teach reading and writing in the EFL / ESL classroom. The students will learn about analyzing textbooks, writing lesson plans, using literature, different organizational tools, writing genres and assessing reading and writing. They will also learn about and practice writing pre-, during and post-reading activities. The vocabulary teaching will look at resources that can be found online, as well as various forms of literature that show different aspects of vocabulary teaching.