M.Ed.-Curriculum and Methods of Teaching English

Course details

Objectives:

a)    Critically analyze language teaching materials and textbooks.

b)    Show awareness of EFL teacher cognition  and ways of enhancing EFL teacher professional growth with particular emphasis on developing the reflective EFL teacher

c)     Analyze the different types of content specification in EFL curriculum: structural syllabus, lexical syllabus, notional functional syllabus, and task-based syllabuses.

d)     Show awareness of the major models of second language acquisition and their implications in ELT curriculum design and teaching.

e)     Identify the different social factors influencing decision making in ELT curriculum design

f)      Identify the major problems involved in teaching English as a foreign language in Oman and ways of investigating them

g)     Show awareness of the different ways of student assessment including alternative assessment and the washback effect of tests on teaching and learning a foreign language

h)     Show awareness of the use of technology in language teaching

i)      Develop appropriate skills needed for conducting research in foreign language teaching and learning including statistical literacy