Teaching

Graduate Courses 

EDER 669.44  Second Language Learning
This course examines sociopolitical, sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, psychological, and affective foundations of second language (L2) development and the implications of theory and research in this area for the learning and teaching of English as a second language.

EDER 667  Second Language Reading and Writing
The course will focus on theoretical, methodological and instructional issues that arise from research in L2 reading and writing and the teaching of ESL. Topics for discussion related to reading will include factors that influence L2 reading, connecting reading and writing through literature, and approaches to reading strategies. Topics for discussion in the area of writing include: approaches to teaching L2 writing, cultural backgrounds and identity in L2 writing, teacher responses to students’ writing, and peer review.

LEDER 669.50 Language Teaching Methods
This course examines approaches, methods, techniques and activities that have been used in ESL/EFL teaching. The goal is to provide teachers with an array of instructional ideas in order to promote informed choices in how and what to teach. By the end of the course, we will explore some of the technological innovations and critique their use of potential in language teaching contexts.

Courses in the Bachelor of Education Program

EDUC 506: Specialization II: ELL/Second Language
The course focuses on both theoretical issues and practical approaches in L2 reading and writing. Topics aiming at developing students’ attitudes include language, ideology, and the roles of first language. Topics related to reading include factors that influence L2 reading, connecting reading and writing through literature, and approaches to reading strategies. Topics for discussion in the area of writing include approaches to teaching L2 writing,cultural backgrounds and identity in L2 writing, teacher responses to students' writing, and peer review. 

EUDC 404: Literacy, Language, and Culture in the K-12 Classrooms,Seminar
This course will help teacher candidates develop a critical awareness of the intersections between literacy, education, culture and society. Topics include critical literacy, digital literacy, literacy and ELL, literacy and gender, struggling readers, popular culture and literacy, family and community literacy, and literacy and identity.  In the seminar portion of the course, students will have the opportunity to think more deeply about topics introduced in the lecture and field experience. The seminar will move between whole class discussions guided by the instructor and student-led inquiry groups.  

EDPT 512: Principles and Practices in Teaching ESL Learners 
This course is designed to help mainstream teachers to assist ESL learners in their classrooms. It covers topics such as the myths of learning English as a second language, cultural diversity and the Canadian mosaic, language and emotion, ESL reading and writing, intercultural communication, content-based instruction (e.g., teaching social studies to ESL students), ESL parent involvement, and assessment.

EDTP 512: Professional Seminar: Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The key purpose of the Professional Seminar is “the ongoing development of the ability to attend to the diverse and the unknown – that which is “other” or beyond our language and conceptual schemes – and of coming to know self differently by way of the “other” in order to negotiate multiple contradictory identities and discourses. This process begins the development of a socio-cultural consciousness in students. The above requires that students first determine and examine their own cultural and value assumptions and to critically reflect upon the significance of those assumptions to the practice of their teaching and the possible effects upon those who have differing views whether they be students, parents, fellow teachers or others.