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ELT 523 - Advanced Teaching Language Skills

Graduate Education Institute · English Language Teaching · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Hidayet SARANDİ

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to make students familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of the language skills and subskills, including grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, speaking.

Course Content

  1. To become familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of language skills and subskills including grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing.
  2. To become familiar with recent research studies conducted in the related areas, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, speaking, and listening,
  3. To conceptualize and build an initial theoretical basis for the student's future MA thesis.  

Required Resources

  1. Tricia Hedge.2000.  Teaching and Learning in Language classroom. Oxford.
  2. Eli Henkel.2017. Third edition. Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning
  3. Norbert Schmitt, Diane Schmitt - Vocabulary in Language Teaching (Second Edition)-Cambridge University Press (2020)
  4. William Grabe, Fredricka L. Stoller (2011), Teaching and Researching Reading-Routledge
  5. Ken Hylland (2021). Teaching and Researching Writing. (4thEdition). Taylor and Francis.  

Recommended Resources

  1. J. I. Liontas. 2018. The TESOL encyclopedia in English Language Teaching. Volume 3-4-5.
  2. Andrea Nava, Luciana Pedrazzini (2018). Second language acquisition in action. Bloomsbury.
  3. Related articles  

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Student will become familiar with the nature of the processes involved in learning and the use of the language skills and subskills including reading, listening, speaking and writing, grammar and vocabulary
  2. students become familiar with recent research studies conducted in the related areas.
  3. students conceptualize and build initial theoretical basis for students future MA thesis.

Core Area Distribution

(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%100

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionSelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkPerformance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / ThesisTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)18354
Out of Class Study Period14570
Midterm000
Quiz000
Assignment2510
Practice12020
Final12020

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1IntroductionNot needed
2Age in learning and teaching grammar (2633-2637) in TESOL encyclopedia Comprehensible input and output (2658-2663) in TESOL encyclopedia Comprehension and Production strategies in language learning (2001) Peter SkehanRead the assign pages beforehand
3Current issues in teaching grammar: An SLA perspectives (TESOL Quarterly 2006) Corrective Feedback (Icy Lee, 2013: Research into Practice: written corrective feedback) Teacher written corrective feedback: Less is more (Lee 2019)Skehan, Chapter 4 Related paper
4Corrective Feedback (Icy Lee, 2013: Research into Practice: written corrective feedback) Form, meaning and Use ( in Second language acquisition in action)read the related book chapter and the article
5Form, meaning and Use Oral Corrective feedback: A question of classification and application English Preparatory learners’ beliefs regarding grammar instructionRead the related aricles
6Vocabulary in Language Teaching chapter 1,2read the related chapters
7Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 3read the related chapters
8midtermread the chapters and papers
9Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 4,6,7Vocabulary in Language Teaching: Chapter 4,6,7
10Teaching and researching reading chapter 1-2Teaching and researching reading chapter 1-2
11Teaching and researching reading Chapter 3-4Teaching and researching reading Chapter 3-4
12Teaching and researching reading Chapter 5-6Teaching and researching reading Chapter 5-6
13Teaching and Researching writing, chapter 1, 2Teaching and Researching writing, chapter 1, 2
14Teaching and Researching writing, Chapter 3, 4Teaching and Researching writing, Chapter 3, 4
15listening Hinkel chapter 15-16Hinkel chapter 15-16
16finalall chapters