ENG442 : Strategies 2

Department

Department of English Language

Academic Program

Bachelor in English

Type

Compulsory

Credits

02

Prerequisite

ENG336

Overview

Overview

The course Strategies of Teaching English (2) aims at giving the student teachers the chance to apply the theoretical knowledge they received in previous courses and preparing them for practicing in public schools. In this course, the student teacher is requested to prepare lesson plans for different language skills and achieve their lesson objectives in microteaching circles done inside the English Department. During their microteaching practice, students are trained to present their lessons, run appropriate activities, conduct assessment procedures, make good use of audio-visual aids and computer assisted teaching tools together with effective classroom management and student interaction. The course also aims at developing the students’ ability to analyze and evaluate lessons as well as performing peer and self-assessment.

Intended learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student must be able to:

1. Prepare lesson plans, follow them up and achieve them inside class.

2. Present their lessons, design activities and use appropriate assessment tools.

3. Manage their classroom, use group, pair and individual work, maintain student interaction through using encouragement and motivation.

4. Proper design and use of teaching aids including flash cards, cardboards, computer assisted language teaching and assessment, and the effective use of the classroom board.

5. Self-assessment through the use of assessment forms and peer assessment and lesson analysis.

Teaching and learning methods

The course will be presented to the students through introductory lectures followed by microteaching performed by the students together with discussion and analysis of students’ teaching performance.

Methods of assessments

Methods of evaluating students in this course is as follows: Class work (40%) and final (60%)

Class work is divided into two microteaching parts, each is 20%. The final is divided into two microteaching parts, each is 30%

References

1.Scrivner, J. 2005. Learning Teaching. A guidebook for English Language Teaching

2. Various web sites for ESL teaching

Main Contents of the Course
Scientific topics	Week	Readings / References / Notes
Introduction: students are introduced to microteaching and providing sample English lessons given by the course instructor	1	PowerPoint presentations / Sample Lessons
Introduction continued : lesson plans, lesson parts, achieving lesson plans in class, samples of lesson plans and lessons given by the course instructor	2	PowerPoint presentations / Sample Lesson plans and sample lessons
1st student microteaching : 30 minute grammar lessons	3	Microteaching
Continuing grammar lessons given by course students	4	Microteaching
Continuing grammar lessons given by course students	5	Microteaching
2nd microteaching: 30 minute reading and writing lessons or integrated-skill lessons	6	Microteaching
Continuing reading and writing lessons given by course students	7	Microteaching
Continuing reading and writing lessons given by course students	8	Microteaching
3rd microteaching: 30 minute speaking, listening and pronunciation lessons given by course students	9	Microteaching
Continuing listening, speaking and pronunciation lessons given by course students	10	Microteaching
Continuing listening, speaking and pronunciation lessons given by course students	11	Microteaching
4th microteaching lessons: 30 minute co-teaching lesson in which two students cooperate to give a lesson of their own choice.	12	Microteaching
Continuing with co-teaching	13	Microteaching
Continuing with co-teaching	14	Microteaching

General Psychology (EPSY 100)
Fundamentals of Education (EPSY101)
Phonetics1 (ENG106)
Writing 1 (ENG105)
Listening&Speaking 1 (ENG104)
Reading Comprehension 1 (ENG103)
Grammar 1 (ENG102)
computer 1 (CS100)
Arabic language 1 (AR103)
Computer 2 (CS101)
General Teaching Methods (EPSY 201)
Arabic language 2 (AR104)
English Grammar 2 (ENG107)
Reading Comprehension 2 (ENG108)
Listening & Speaking 2 (ENG109)
Writing 2 (ENG110)
Phonetics 2 (ENG111)
Developmental Psychology (EPSY 203)
Educational Psychology (EPSY 200)
Basics Of Curriculums (EPSY 202)
Principles of statistics (ST100)
Theoretical Linguistics 1 (ENG217)
writing 3 (ENG215)
Listening&Speaking 3 (ENG214)
Reading Comprehension 3 (ENG213)
English Grammar 3 (ENG212)
Arabic language 3 (AR105)
Measurements and Evaluation (EPSY 302)
Research Methods (EPSY301)
Creative writing 1 (ENG327)
Quranic Studies 1 (AR101)
English Grammar 4 (ENG218)
Reading Comprehension4 (ENG219)
Listening & Speaking 4 (ENG220)
English Literature 1 (ENG222)
Theoretical Linguistics 2 (ENG223)
Applied Linguistics 1 (ENG328)
Quranic studies2 (AR102)
Arabic language 4 (AR106)
Psychological Health (EPSY 401)
Teaching learning Aids (EPSY 303)
Grammatical Structures1 (ENG324)
Advanced Reading 1 (ENG325)
Academic Writing (ENG440)
Advanced Listening&Speaking 1 (ENG326)
Methods of Teaching (ENG334)
Computer Assisted Language Learning (ENG340)
Psycholinguistics (ENG329)
Grammatical Structures 2 (ENG330)
Advanced Reading 2 (ENG331)
Creative Writing 2 (ENG333)
Applied Linguistics 2 (ENG335)
Strategies1 (ENG336)
Vocabulary Development (ENG344)
Teaching English Language Skills (ENG341)
History and Varieties of English (ENG447)
Translation (ENG446)
Teaching English to Young Learners (ENG345)
English Literature2 (ENG342)
Strategies 2 (ENG442)
Research Methods in English Language Teaching (ENG343)
Graduation Project (ENG448)
Teaching Practice (EPSY 402)