Teaching Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation

Catalog description

This course will expand students’ pedagogical knowledge of listening, speaking, and pronunciation activities and techniques for various proficiency levels. Students will develop a repertoire of lesson plans and ideas for teaching listening, speaking, and pronunciation skills. Students will learn and practice teaching (1) listening for meaning; (2) listening for language learning; (3) meaning-focused output; (4) speaking in a variety of genres; and (5) fluency development. Students will learn techniques to improve pronunciation and activities to teach proper formation of consonants, vowels, and diphthongs will be given. Practice with connected speech, word/sentence stress, and intonation patterns will be emphasized through drama related activities. Also included are issues of first language interference and the design and implementation of lessons and curricula.