3.00 Credits
This course will provide the opportunity for students to explore the concepts involved in teaching listening and speaking to non-native speaking students. The focus of this course will be a hands-on approach to the instruction of these skill sets featuring applied principles, a large number of useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring. Course content will inclue: listening and speaking theories applicable to the instruction of these skill subsets, listening processes, types and models of listening, information transfer, language focused learning through dictation, pronunciation, negotiation in speaking, types of speaking, the instruction of teaching skills for teaching speaking, fluency and the ways to develop it, testing listening and speaking. Prerequisite: EDUC 2230 Second Language Acquisition.