Full Description
This is the indispensable handbook to your TESOL master's degree and the career that lies beyond it. Designed to be used across a typical MA programme and into your professional life in teaching, it is the essential framework for designing and implementing content-based, contextualised English language instruction. At every point in your development, it provides you with:
- Challenge: develop your skills with analysis activities, micro-teaching ideas, discussion questions and reflection prompts.
- Support: authentic teaching vignettes, case studies and sidebar commentaries from TESOL students and professionals, and work examples from EAL learners.
- Direction: teaching ideas that stimulate creativity, problem solving and motivated engagement.
- Foundation: every chapter is underpinned by an extensive review of current TESOL and applied linguistics research
- Perspective: specific instruction and assessment examples from real-world contexts, from K-6 programmes to adult tutoring
Each chapter's key features are cross-referenced throughout, letting you find your way through the sections that are most useful to you both during and after your studies. A fully resourced online companion also houses lesson plans, teaching portfolios, sample reports, teaching videos, curriculum maps and extra teaching notes to make sure that you will always have exactly the right materials for every learning and teaching situation. With a thorough grounding in instructional design and assessment, there is no more comprehensive guide to developing English language proficiency for multilingual world in which intercultural communication is an essential skill.
Contents
PART ONE: Foundations of TESOL
1. The field of TESOL
2: English for specific purposes
3: History and development of English language teaching in the United States
PART TWO: The English Language
4. The history and impact of English around the world
5. World Englishes and varieties of English
6. Structure and theory of English linguistics
PART THREE: Success in a TESOL Graduate Program and Beyond
7. Academic expectations of graduate students in TESOL and applied linguistics
8. Sources of academic learning in TESOL and applied linguistics
9. Sources of practical and professional learning in TESOL and applied linguistics
10. Writing about your academic learning
11. Topics and themes in TESOL and applied linguistics
PART FOUR: Empirical Research into Acquiring English as an Additional Language
12. Individual factors impacting acquisition
13. Social factors impacting acquisition
14. Educational factors impacting acquisition
15. Sociocognitive factors impacting acquisition
16. Technology factors impacting acquisition
PART FIVE: Common Questions and Concerns of Novice and Experienced EAL Teachers
17. Common questions and concerns of novice EAL teachers
18. Common questions and concerns of more experienced EAL teachers
PART SIX: Instructional Design for Developing English Proficiency in a Multilingual World
19. The development of language teaching methods over time
20. The instructional design process and needs assessment
21. Integrating language, skill, and content learning objectives in EAL instruction
22. Developing speaking skills for EAL
23. Developing listening skills for EAL
24. Developing reading skills for EAL
25. Developing writing skills for EAL
26. Developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) for EAL
27. Developing digital and multimodal literacies for EAL
PART SEVEN: Assessing EAL Proficiency and Progress
28. Creating an assessment plan to track learner progress
29. Classroom-based assessments of EAL skills
30. Standardized assessments of EAL skills
31. Learner self-assessments in EAL
PART EIGHT: Life After Graduate School
32. Your teaching philosophy and professional portfolio
33. The job search
34. Reflective teaching and continuing your professional development
