Sunday 20 February 2011

Introduction to "English Teaching Methods" Course

Course Competence 
To increase students understanding of relationship between the contemporary of foreign language teaching with its accompanying of
practical issues and its historical perspective.

Course Description
This course provides students with a number of different theoretical views of language and language teaching methods that serve as source of instruction for practicing in the classroom. This course also should be followed by the students before microteaching practice.      

Possible Topics
I may use the following topics for teaching this course, but I can include some newest teaching methods for the students in order to update them with changes in curriculum and assessment in Indonesia.
        1. Introduction: Historical perspective of language teaching.
2. Approach, method, and technique.
3. Different theoretical views of language and language teaching
4. Principles of the Grammar Translation method
5. Principle of the direct method
6. Techniques of the direct method
7. Principle of the audio lingual method
8. Teaching Techniques in the ALM
9. Principle of the Total Physical Response Method
10. The communicative Approach
11. Contextual teaching and learning
12. Teaching Listening Skills, Reading Skills, Speaking Skills
        13. SMP/MTs/SMA/MA/SMK Textbook study

Reference
Brown, H. Douglas. Teaching By Principles An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. New Jersey: Prantice Hall, 1994
Djunaidi, A. Pengembangan Materi Pengajaran Bahasa Inggris Berdasarkan Pendekatan Linguistik Kontrastif. Jakarta: Dekdikbud, 1987
Francis Mackey, William. Language Teaching Analyses. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1974
Little Wood, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
Richard, Jack C. and Theodore, Rogers. Approach and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Sears, Susan. Contextual Teaching and Learning: A Primer For Effective Instruction. USA: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2002
      Subyakto N., Sri Utari. Metodologi Pengajaran Bahasa. Jakarta: Dekdikbud, 1988

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