Spanish Language Teaching and Learning

Catalog description

Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite(s): SPAN 301 or SPAN 302 or Consent of Instructor Provides overview of current theoretical and applied approaches for teaching and learning of Spanish in variety of contexts, including monolingual and bilingual classrooms. Topics include: multiple dimensions of communicative competence, processes that affect language acquisition, bilingualism, language attitudes, and pedagogical practices that promote language acquisition. Students will apply current language teaching techniques to reflect on themselves as learners and teachers, and to begin to develop their own teaching practice.