Developing a Team-Taught Graduate Course for Foreign Language Acquistion Research and Teaching Methodology

Grant Details

Amount: 12990.00

Project Start Date: 04/30/91

Status:

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Applies to some languages

Project Level:

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Annie Wiart (Annie_Wiart@Brown.edu)

Box 1961
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-3222

Although graduate TA's play a critical role in undergraduate language teaching at Brown, courses in FL acquisition theory and teaching methodology are currently offered only every other year in Italian and French. In order to make available such a course to all graduate students in FL's each year, the members of this project will meet in several working sessions during the summer of 1991 to develop a team-taught course in language acquisition theory and teaching methodology. They will produce a common core syllabus as well as language-specific materials, including videotapes of teaching demonstrations. The course will be implemented in the fall semester, 1991, and systematically evaluated and revised the following spring. Thereafter, the resulting set of syllabus and materials will be made available for dissemination and adaptation elsewhere.